16 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.
