Task 3

Task 3

Goldeneye

Target Audience: The game is directed towards teens as the Goldeneye movie was given the certificate 12. It’s primarily for boys due to the themes of the game.

Style: The game is based off the James Bond movie “Goldeneye” so it tries to emulate the style and feel of the movie. The movie is a spy movie, which means it involves sneaking around and killing people.

Genre: First person shooter

Ethics: The games main objectives involve shooting, blowing up and generally killing people. It is possible that the game could offend Russians due to them being the main enemy in the game and it could influence children to try replicate the game.  Because of this the game is rated T for Teenagers. However some teenagers may be more influenced by the content than others.

Street Fighter 2

Target Audience: The game would be aimed at teens due to the martial arts featured in the game.

Style: The game focuses on martial arts from various countries across the world. The art style is very similar to anime and manga.

Genre: Fighting Game

Ethics: The entire game is about fighting and there’s a bonus level where you destroy someone’s car. This could influence someone to go destroy someone else’s car or to take up fighting. If they take up martial arts, I don’t consider that a bad thing. There are also pictures at the end of each fight showing the opponent beaten and bloody. If I was to rate the game it would be for teens due to the graphic content and storyline.

Point Blank

Target Audience: The game is for all ages due to the colourful and tame style of the game.

Style: The game is presented in an over the top fashion with you shooting targets and other objects.  

Genre: Arcade shooter.

Ethics: The games only ethical issue would be the fact it’s a shooting game. Despite its shooting at targets and objects it could still cause problems. The guns have a realistic structure despite being pink and blue.

Pong

Target Audience: Anybody.

Style: It’s a very simple game, its two lines representing paddles and a single dot representing the ball.

Genre: Arcade

Ethics:  I doubt anyone would be offended by this game.

Mario Kart

Target Audience: The game is mainly aimed at kids but it is fun for all ages.

Style: The game is very colourful and cheery. All the characters drive go karts instead of cars and it’s all very tame.

Genre: Racing

Ethics: The game has no real ethical issues. It’s just a fun go karting game. Despite this it’s still a racing game that allows you to bang into and take out other players.

R Type

Target audience: Older children because of the enemies. They could be frightening to younger children. 

Style: R-Type is a space shooter which has you flying around in space blasting enemies as they come at you.

Genre: Shooter

Ethics: The game is about shooting alien creatures in space. Some of them could be quite intimidating to younger children.

Dead Space

Target Audience: Adults.

Style: The game is very dark and gory. You wander around a cramped space ship trying to avoid being killed by the various undead creatures on board. The floors and wall usually have various body parts and internal organs strewn across them the whole atmosphere to the game is very creepy with lots of disturbing imagery.

Genre: Survival horror

Ethics: The game contains lots of gore and disturbing content which could scare or offend more sensitive players. The game also has some religious themes which could also offend.

Silent Hill 3

Target audience: Adults

Style: It’s eerie and gloomy. This game is a psychological horror game and tries to mess with your mind. There is nothing very pleasant about the whole game. It's filled with disturbing imagery and other horrors.

Genre: Survival horror

Ethics: The game has various horror themes with a disturbing fairground environment, horrific monsters which you have to evade and defeat to progress in the game. This could (and probably will) disturb players. It also has religious themes with a large part of the game being about a cult trying to kidnap the main character.

Resident Evil 5

Target Audience: Adults

Style: Resident Evil 5 is a gritty bloody game. The main enemy of the game are possessed villagers who, after being shot in the head, become disfigured.

Genre: Survival horror – Third Person shooter

Ethics: There was a lot of controversy over the location of the game. It's set in Africa with a trailer beginning the start of the controversy, which showed the central character(Chris Redfield) shooting African villagers. People started to claim the game was racist, due to the white protagonist shooting African villagers. There are also the issue of the violence with the whole game about killing zombies.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Target audience: Teens.

Style: The game emulates the style of the comics by presenting them in a darker style to previous games. It’s set in a mental asylum, full of Batman’s villains who are all mentally disturbed and quite intimidating.

Ethics: The game could be considered offensive to mentally disabled people as some of the enemies are mentally disabled. The only way to deal with these enemies is to beat them unconscious. The game is quite realistic and this could be an influence to people.

Mortal Kombat (2011)

Target Audience: Adults

Style: The game has 2D gameplay but 3D models. The game contains extreme amounts of violence and gore. It has realistic graphics and a dark tone to the storyline.

Genre: Fighting

Ethics: The game (like the original Mortal Kombat) has caused a lot of controversy because of the realistic nature of the violence, leading to it being banned in Australia (the ban was lifted after a new rating was created in 2013), South Korea and it was indexed in Germany.

Dead Rising 2

Target audience: Adults

Style: The game is light hearted compared to other horror games with an abundance of strange outfits and bizarre weapons you can have your character using. The violence is over the top and ridiculous.

Genre: Survival horror

Ethics: The games violence is over the top and silly. There’s always a possibility that someone could actually be offended though I doubt it.

My game

Smiler: The Worlds Happiest serial Killer

Target audience: The target audience would be adults due to the game's violence and due to the fact that a lot of the stuff in the game are tributes to 80's slasher movies. Younger generations probably wouldn't have seen a lot of these movies unless they sought them out.

Style: The game has a tongue in cheek sense of humour. The violence is exaggerated and it doesn’t take itself seriously despite the creepy nature of the locations.

Genre: Survival horror.

Ethics: I imagine there would be some problems. The fact that the game has the player hunting down innocents and killing them off one by one could cause some problems. The victims would be based of the various stereotypical slasher victims meaning they'd be doing the kind of stuff that they do in those movies (Alcohol, drugs etc.). I think the games humour would maybe iron out some of these problems but it's unlikely.