Ratings

VIDEO GAME RATINGS

In all things whether it be film, game, websites or even magazines, they all must have some form of rating, this is because some content involved in the product may not be suitable for younger viewers. Age ratings are to give the target audiance an idea of what will be involved in the game, this will stop younger people purchasing the game/film and will let people and shop keepers know if the game involves violence or sexual content or even bad language. This can also help people to decide whether they actually want to buy it or not as the age rating will explain alot about the game. PEGI rating on a game lets us know that it contains content suitable for a certain age group and above.  So, a 7 game is suitable for everyone who is seven or older while an 18-rated game is suitable only for adults. These game rating will show how har d the game is as this is more to do with game reviews game ratings are purely to show who the game is aimed at. PEGI stands for 'pan european game information' and this means that they will rate all games that are now being made now, they will rate the game based on who they think it is suitable for and will also give a few PEGI description icona that will show what is in the game like horror, seual content, drugs etc.
here is an example of some of the PEGI age ratings and who would be able to access them. The more violent and maturer the game the higher the rating, GTA will be rated an 18 for example because of the drugs, strong language and violence.

 Here is an example of the icon descriptions given for some games such as the spider for fear or the fist for violence. PEGI is being introduced so that european parents can see what games to buy for their kids and if it is suitable for them to play, also PEGI introduced game ratings so that game companies cannot be sued for unsuitable content as it will clearly state that the game is not for younger kids, so if a younger child does get hold of the game and complains then the game company can just say, 'this child should not be playing this game anyway because of the age rating.'

Lord Of The Rings Online

 Lord Of the rings online is a fantasy mmorpg game made by Turbine and Midway games in April 24th 2007. To play this game you have to pay $14.99 a month or you could suscribe to the $77.70 every 6 months, or even pay $41.85 every 3 months depending on what payment method you would like. In this game you can walk freely across a massive world and participate in quests with other people in the world, you can level up and upgrade your character with the help of others in the world.

GTA V trailer

Recently, Rockstar have released the latest trailer for the much anticipated game Grand Theft Auto 5! In the trailer, it begins with a song by Stevie Wonder called Skeletons, this is a fairly upbeat song that sort of reminds us of the original gangster feel, it almost reminds me of an 80's cop film, it helps set the scene with a great panning shot of the city Los Santos (or Los Angeles as we would know it). From the first establishing shot we can see Rockstar almost showing off how far they have come when it comes to graphics as the render distance shown in this first shot is amazing, the graphical detail looks very good. After showing some jump cuts of various things such as nice cars and nice expensive looking houses we here one of the main protagonists speaking about crime, this also helps to set the scene as we hear him as an almost warning to get out of crime before its too late. We then have a lot of jump cuts showing more of where it is being set and we see nice parts of the city an less nice parts, we are then introduced to the 3 main characters in the game. The first main character who narrates at the start seems to be an almost rich gentleman in his late 40's, we seem to thing he has been involved in crime for a long time and now has a life of luxury and is out of crime for now. The second Character we are introduced to is first seen in a run down poor part of town, he seems to be a poorer man who seems to be pretty mad as we see him beating people up and standing with dead bodies, he seems and we get the feel that he is very angry for some reason. The third and final protagonist i s a black gentleman who also seems quite rich and doing well for himself as he seems quite young, we see he has troubles with his wife as we see them arguing in the trailer. From  this trailer the scene is the city and they are all dressed in relaxed clothes that anyone would wear, the lighting is very bright and it makes the whole area seem nice, colorful and a lot going on, as with the costumes, these are bright, the fact that everything is bright may suggest a lot of wealth and happiness maybe. From the trailer we get a lot of Rockstar's humor as there are many parts that are just what Rockstar would do. Also we get to see a lot of new features and new vehicles and weapons that may be in the game such as quad bikes, jets, attack dogs, new cars, planes and many more, this could show that Rockstar have tried to introduce much more into their game and better features to make it much more interesting. Throughout the trailer there are several establishing shots with a few medium close ups and long shots, hopefully Rockstar will release more to reveal much more in the future.

GTA V what we know so far

GTA

GTA are set to release the fifth game in their massive franchise and GTA has had a popular rich history, whether it be controversy or massive marketing. GTA was originally made in the UK by the Houser brothers. They originally worked for a company called DMA and later became Rockstar. GTA IV is the follow up of the 2008 4th game and is set to be released in spring 2013, there was a lot of controversy over when it was supposed to be released an Rockstar changed the date many time to make sure the game was tweaked to perfection and have now said it will definitely be in spring 2013, we do not know if they are waiting until the next generation of consoles or just waiting to create more anticipation. In the GTA games you can basically do whatever you want whether it be killing people or stealing cars or even robbing various items, the GTA world was open for you to have fun. There have been 5 GTA games already, each with different features and each in different cities, making the game interesting as people were always interested to see where the next GTA game would be set. GTA was mostly made by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar.
 
 So far we do not know much about GTA V but we do know that it will be set in a place called Los Santos but we know it to be Los-Angeles, this could suggest wealth and upper-class crime may be involved in the games instead of petty smaller crimes. Rockstar have used a type of leaking tactic to show the audience about the game and have only released a few screen shot and a short trailer of the game so far, this gets the target audience very excited about the game and gets it to be a much more anticipated game. The fact that people only have small things to learn about the game makes the game seem amazing, like 'oh there has been a picture of a jet released, this must mean we can fly a jet' this is what screen shots will create. This is a very smart way to get their game out there from Rockstar as people will always be seeing images that hardly reveal anything from the game, Rockstar also use billboards, posters pictures that hardly reveal anything to get everyone hyped up. So far two trailers have been released showing that their are 3 protagonists in the game and a bit of their backgrounds, the game looks very good from the trailers. The very fact that there is not even a pre-order date yet suggests that Rockstar are waiting and getting people to wait thus creating immense amounts of excitement for this game.

top 20 games right now

These are the top 20 games that are being bought right now, this shows the trends in gaming right now and what people are playing and what they want. This will give game developers ideas about what games are mostly being played. This also shows what games and what type of games are not selling well, this will show developers what and where they are going wrong with their games if their games are not selling well. This will also give the game developers ideas for maybe making a follow up of that games that sold well and maybe see if they can improve it. Fifa 13 is so popular because it is literally on every console and it is even released on the PS2, this is to establish their market and gain more of a community. Assassins creed 3 is the top because it is a very good game and it has been a big antiscipated title for a while and it is obviously been successful because it is first. Alot of the time an established franchise game will sell well because people already know what it is about and may have enjoyed the last one so want to play the latest game, new IP games will still sell well but people may be weary of buying it because they have never heard of it before. There are some first party games that released that sell well because people know the company and trust that the games are going to be good like Pokemon for example. The fact that there are some kids games selling well shows that there are maybe growths in the child gaming market, this could show that more kids are now playing games and the market for Childrens games is becoming more of a popular option.

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