Thursday 19 March 2015

Type of interactive media product:
Minecraft PS3 edition

Explanation of the product:
Minecraft is a sandbox creational crafting game where you can either play on your own, or with friends, and build, create, survive, and thrive in a world of your own creation.

Target audience:
The target audience is aged between 13 and 25

Texts, sounds, images and navigation:
The text can be altered to your liking, and so can sound, the navigation is pretty straight forward

Accessibility:
The game is on all recent consoles, like Playstation, Xbox, and PC and mobile.

Strengths and weaknesses:
The strengths are that it can be played on pretty much anything, and that it can be played anywhere. You can also play on your own, or with your friends, or with random people online.

The weaknesses are that it doesn't change much, and that the game gets very repetitive.










Type of interactive media product:
Diablo 3

Explanation of the product:
Diablo 3 is a 3rd person medieval fighting game where you pick your class and then go into the story mode where the objective is to destroy the darkness and defeat Diablo and reclaim heaven, each time you kill Diablo you unlock the next difficulty so that you can replay in on a harder mode progressively levelling up your charicter and getting new and better equipment.

Target audience:
The target Audience is aged between 18 and 25

Texts, sounds, images and navigation:
The navigation can be difficult, but is easy to learn over time, the images and sound is very good quality and is very smooth, however the text can some time be difficult as there isn't many options.

Accessibility:
The accessibility is pretty good, it's on all next gen consoles, like Playstation, Xbox and PC

Strengths and weaknesses:
It's a fun and very enjoyable game, it teaches you the basics of strategy fighting, and it has add on content that almost doubles the time of the game.

It becomes very repetitive after you complete the first play through, it is difficult to connect to other players, Each player in the group need to do their own play through even if they complete the game with someone.










Type of interactive media product:
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

Explanation of the product:
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is a first person shooter that is based in the future when Army's for higher are more powerful than the real army's. You have several options on the game of how to play, the story mode, taking you through the life of a mercenary when the owner of the military for higher takes over the global population, or you can play Multiplay, where you can create a class, or load out, and then play against other players in a death match, or you can play zombies, where you are against horde of the undead.

Target audience:
The target audience is aged 18 to 30

Texts, sounds, images and navigation:
There is an option of subtitles, and you can change the size of the font, and the language, the images are of high quality, and the navigation is very straight forwards

Accessibility:
The game is available on all consoles, such as Playstation, Xbox and PC

Strengths and weaknesses:
It is a very fun game, and has many features and modes, there is also a frequent list of updates, and packs to pick from to to give you new parts of the game, new maps, and new weapons and players, this makes the game entertaining for a very long time, and will make you always have something new to find.

It's weaknesses is that it's not available in all languages, and that you need to pay for all of the add on content, it can also be very hard to find a game in certain game modes, you can also get a lot of abuse from other online players.

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