HA3 - Task 1 Game Genre and Game Profiles

For this assignment i was given the task to work as a journalist and to write an illustrated article that explains the current trends in audience behavior for the magazine EDGE.
The third part of the article will focus on why audiences like games.

I had to choose a video game genre and 3 games to do with that genre.
i chose the genre first person shooter.
The 3 games i chose are 
Call Of Duty
Far cry 3 
Counter-Strike

First Person Shooter
First Person Shooter is a type of games genre that relies on shooting multiple targets and, as the players play through the eyes of the character trying to reach a specific goal/mission.first person game modes now have multiplayer game modes like team deathmatch and free for all that relies on players to shoot other players and ranking up in an ordered system.



Call Of Duty
The Call Of Duty series has multiple missions and tasks during the games campaign.The games always conclude to finding the villain and killing them in a different way everytime. The best thing about the Call Of Duty franchise is the online multiplayer, many people from all over the world playing in one big multiplayer math either in teams or on there own,in game modes that the game companies think players will like most like free for all that has a goal of reaching the score limit withing a specific time or kill confirmed that has a goal of being in a team and shooting the other team and collecting dog tags.

http://gearnuke.com/ping-indicator-back-call-duty-advance-warfare/

Far cry 3
In Far cry 3 the players play as Jason Brody,the game starts on a holiday with 4 friends Liza Snow,Daisy Lee, Keith Ramsay and Oliver Carswell and your 2 brothers Grant Brody and Riley Brody. the holiday starts to become a nightmare when you wake up with you and you brother locked in a cage in a camp, you escape with you brother and attempt to escape the camp, vaas the villain in the game murders you brother and you attempt get revenge on him while saving the rest of your friends and brother. Far cry 3 is an open world first person shooter that has a lot of side quests as well as the main campaign. Far cry 3 also features a co-operative mode that features you and a friend to play missions trying to reach the specific goal in any way possible with that being stealthy with bow and arrows or full on shoot em up with  assault rifles and shotguns, Although Far cry 3's campaign is 25-30 hours long the game also features an online multiplayer that means you can play against other players with a huge range of weapons my favorite was the bow and arrow ,The online multiplayer also features a map editor that means that you can create a map for you and a bunch of your friends to play, The map editor features a bunch of tools for you to use like putting in trees and other parts of the environment and putting animals and deadly creature in the game so people get attacked and killed by them without other players not to waste a bullet.

Counter Strike

Counter-Strike is an all online multiplayer game that has a range of weapons and accessories such as grenades and night vision or armor, Counter strike has game modes that people have made for example instead if there being player vs player there is a game mode where its player vs zombies and if you are a zombie and kill a player they become a zombie.