Evoke and Paper 3

The game Evoke brings a lot to the table when talking about trying to save the issues in Africa. It is a great way to make people aware of the problems in this country but then again there are many things within our own country. I love the games idea of trying to help out other people to make them stable, that part is huge to me. I feel like this game will be only good for awhile and then people will get sick of being the difference and they will want others to do it for them. I feel like if the people are the only ones making the changes in the country then the government is going to get pushed a around or involved. The idea that there is money behind all this will make it last even longer. People will do anything for money which will be insight for them. To see people already doing things like McGonigal stats on page 335 is amazing to me. Every little bit we can get people motivated will help the world. I am just afraid that down the road there are going to be conflicts that will be tough to solve. For right now it seems like a fantastic idea, but I am interested in what will happen in a few years.

For my paper I have a couple of things I am on the edge about, first is the pollution in the world and how we has Americans can change our way to stop the pollution. Secondly the divorce rate in America and how to solve relationships.

Review

The game I am reviewing is SSX, and the review comes from Giant Bomb.com. In this review they talk about a lot of the things that have changed and the number one thing that as changed is the speed. Instead of having time to enjoy your drop at an usual speed they bumped it up a lot. Now this can be good and bad for players. If you love challenges then the speed will be okay, where other people come in trouble is they focus on not trying to break their spine while going down the slope. Instead of trying to beat scores they just want to make it safely down. A positive note of the game is the amazing graphics that is has. The graphics of the slopes, ice, and rocks are great. It makes you feel like your are going down the side of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Second sweet thing about the game is how they have a satellite view of the earth and you have to twirl around to find the place you want to go, and the matter that they are using real mountains is cool also. A few flaws that the review points out is that the wing suit sometimes deploys itself when you don’t want it too and also the head lamp is virtually useless be cause it depends on the location of your head so you can see the direction you are going.  Giant Bomb stats this: “And then there is the rewind mechanic, that great bastion of all things racing in video games of the last several years, the thing that makes it so that no matter how bad you suck, you can just wipe away all your failure at the press of a button.” The rewind button to me is the most useful thing ever to be up on racing games. The one thing i like about it in SSX is that when you do rewind they take points away by the millisecond and when you rewind the other players keep going. So in reality rewinding does you absolutely no good be cause your going to fall behind and lose points.

Overall SSX is a fun but yet challenging game and it would definitely lots of playing to get a hang of all the controls and become good at it.

SSX-New Game

SSX brings a lot to the table for me when I was in love with SSX Trickey as a kid so I was really looking forward to this game coming out. As the game started I watched the movie they created before you get into the menu, just like any other gamer would do when they are looking forward to playing the game. I was excited to start playing because the game looked so legit. First thing that made me upset was that I couldn’t create my own player at the beginning and make him the greatest snowboarded ever. As I continued the game challenges you with a World Tour and Explore Tour that takes you on journeys that you never thought you could go to. As you are choosing the the place where you want to drop from you have to make sure you have the correct equipment for the drop. This includes skydiving suit, armor, ice grapples, and other assortments of things. As I continued to play I found out that this game has a higher speed than I thought it was going to have and they made it harder than I expected. Another thing that I thought was interesting was that you could only be a girl snowboarder right away and you and to work your way up to unlock the guy boarders. It caught me by surprise cause usually you are able to choose either one, but this time they made you choose a girl. I was amazed by the graphics that were in the game they did an outstanding job of them. As a player one thing that I hated in the new SSX was the rewind button, it was a backup button if you fell of and didn’t want to restart you could just rewind and be back where you messed up and try to recover from there. For me I hate when someone gives me grace when I am the one that messed up. Overall the game didn’t come up to my standards and was disappointed in it more than anything.