I was eight years old when I received my first video game console, the Nintendo 64, along with my first video game Mario Kart. I was amazed at the fact I could have so much fun playing video games instead of going outside and playing “tag” with the other kids near my neighborhood. But from the day I received my Nintendo64, I started to love playing video games. I was intrigued by the single player campaigns and playing online with others. I might have started with N64 with Mario Kart, but as time went on I started to buy new games and consoles such as: Mario Party, Super Mario, Star Fox, and etc. for the N64, a PlayStation2 with Final Fantasy Seven and Eight and many other games.Today I own a PlayStation3 along with 15 games, a Xbox360 with another 7-10 games, and a gaming PC with over 40 games. Because I love to play video games as my hobby, I will be writing my blog on video games reviews. The game reviews will be based on a score of one to ten, and the games would be based on two different categories: one being the game play, and the other graphics and sound.
I am a gamer and a game tester. I have been a game tester at Electronic Arts (E.A.) and other private marketing groups who have been hired by the creators of video games. I have a chance to test before they came out: Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Devil May Cry 5, FIFA 11 and many other small games. At each of the games test I have been able to have some impact on the final product of the game.
The first category I will be reviewing for each of the games would be gameplay. I will be examining the storyline in the single player campaign along with playing online in multiplayer mode, if the game has a multiplayer mode. The game play category is weighted the most compared to graphics and sound because game play is the reason why people play the game in the first place. For example, Call of Duty games (COD) single player storyline is so intriguing and great to play through, people might play it over and over again, but COD is mainly known for multiplayer game play where millions of people play online every day.
The second category has to be graphics and sounds. Today’s gamers really care about how the game looks. Today’s gamers really care about how the game looks because of how technology has grown over the years. For example, games in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s use to be 2D graphics and that was already amazing looking, but today we have 3D graphics, and the graphics are so advance now that the characters actually look like real people in life. While gamers care so much about the graphics, gamers do not take notice to how sound affects the game. The sounds of each game are really complimentary to the storyline, the game play, and the mood. The sounds of the game change when you know you are about to fight a boss, and at the end of the fight stops and plays a song that makes you feel accomplished in defeating the boss or angry when you have died against the boss and have to fight it again. The sounds of a game though are not a separate category in my review, but the sounds are just as important as the graphics.
At the end of each review I will give a score to each game based of my opinions because they’re my opinion everyone has a right to agree and disagree at any moment of the blog. I just want all my readers to understand why I give these scores so they can decide on their own if they agree or disagree. And if the reader has not played the game, I hope those readers go out and play the game themselves and see, feel, and hear what I experienced, while playing the games.
