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April 2012
So I’m the
kind of girl that really doesn’t care much for video games, yea I think their
fun to play once in a while but don’t get completely hooked on them like others
do. One thing I did notice about video games well some in particular is the
area of space in the game. Space as in how real the game is, does it have
limits? For example like only being able
to play in one single area? Or can you go walking in the game to different
worlds, time, or dimensions. Space in a game I find most fascinating something I
as a game player never played much attention too. So what I’m going to do here
is analyze how space is used in video games determining what makes videogames
limitless and what puts boundaries on a game. The game Im going to use for this
is a game for PSP called Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron.
The background
of this game is based on the series of movies of Star Wars. What’s going on in
the game is that there is war going on and you have to beat the bad guys which
in this case would be Dark Vader’s guys and the goal is to defeat them in
battle and kill of as many team members as possible from the bad guys until
they flee the planet. The goal is to obtain metals and planets and defeat the
enemy; defeat Dark Vader and his forces. So now join me as we walk inside this virtual
world see where it takes us and understand the meaning of space in the game, Its
limits and all.
The main thing to do in this game is
to kill tour enemy before they kill you. So when you first begin the game you
get to choose what world you want to start in. So right there its your choice
where to begin you can start on land on a planet or even in open space. The limit
is the number of planets. But now let’s dig a little deeper, so I began in a
battle in the actual space in the sky. So I’m in my ship and as o float through
space killing my enemies I can go anywhere I want its limitless my ship can go
on in one direction and all it is are continuing stars. This make the game seem
as if the player is traveling through real open space. But one thing that acts
as a limit here is your commander as you continue on the further you go from
your battle the main commander starts announcing that you are fleeing the
battle but nothing really happens you just get that constant voice saying to go
back to the battle that you are fleeing. Here is a video of the battle going on
in space here you can see how the stars just go on and on and on and you can
see how you as the player can pick any world you want to begin in.
Another option
you get as the game player is you get to choice what kind of guns armor and special
abilities you can get. The people who produced the game put these options in to
give the player a sense of unlimited access and control throughout the game you
can change your guns and use different weapon you can also use different shields
and change different amounts of strength to your character for example how fast
you want to run there’s three levels this here is a limitless option given to
the game player. Here is an example of
the different weapons you can you of coarse there’s much more but here’s a glance
at some.
Overall space in videos games has it
perks you can some more advanced video games have more and some have less in
this particular game it tends to have a little less space to explore but what I’ve
analyzed of it is good I got to really understand what a big role limitless
space plays in video games without not kind of unlimited space in games it
would be just boring and simple not fun or realistic so space is the key to
games.
