Evaluating video game
Call of Duty 4 modern warfare
I’m going to evaluate one of the biggest selling video games of all time on playstation 3, Xbox 360 and computer created by Infinity Ward and Activision. It was released in November 2007 and has sold over 7million copies and won multiple “game of the year” awards. The reason for its popularity is its high quality graphics and intense interactive game play.
The game is set in a ’shoot em up’ style, set in Iraq. This game would not of have been my typical choice however my boyfriend plays it a lot and has forced me on occasion to play. I found the control difficult to grasp at first although after half an hour or so i soon picked up how to play. There have been 3 previous ‘Call of Duty’ games with the same style of gaming ’shoot em up’. I felt i could comfortably play this game without having to have played the previous games before.
This game is mainly targeted towards to the male genre aged 16-25. This is because men of this age desire a sense of action and require a rush of adrenalin, this is got at through the intense action game play of Call of Duty 4. However I’m a 16year old female and still enjoyed playing this game which suggests it’s a very widely played game of different ages and gender. The front cover of the packaging (figure 1) is clearly a male dominant one, with picture with a marine holding a gun in an aggressive stance. This would not appeal to me in the slightest and I’m sure none of my female friends either. However i asked some of my male friends what they thought of it, they all took an interest in it.
The title of the game and logo ‘Call of Duty’ is a very recognisable, because of is large aggressive bold font. The title is recognisable as they have kept the same writing and colour since the first ‘Call of Duty’ came out in 2002 through to ‘Call of Duty 5′ which was released in November 2008.
In conclusion I can see why ‘Call of duty 4′ is the biggest selling game of all time from the recognisable title, to the advanced game play. This is not necessarily a good thing as in the media of today there is a lot about overweight children wasting there lives away on computer games. Despite the clear success of this game I cant help but feel this game is only contributing towards the downwards spiral of overweight, obese children in the UK and today’s generation.
