P2 - B - Storyline/Narrative

P2 - C - Production Process

P2 - D - Characters

That Dragon Cancer

The characters which feature within the game include Joel’s parents Amy and Ryan Green, who you can play as throughout the game. Joel Green, the young boy who the story is about, The game also includes other family members throughout the game are included when family recordings are shown, which were made by the family when Joel was sick.

New Super Mario Bros 2 
The main characters that feature within New Super Mario Bros 2 include Mario, Luigi Bowser, Princess Peach, Koopa Clowns and Bowser.

Users play as Mario or Luigi through the game, whilst Princess Peach, Bowser and and the Koopa Clown as unplayable featured characters within the game used to help tell the storyline. Mario is depicted as a short, Italian plumber wearing red and Luigi is a tall, slim plummer that wears green, they both live in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Peach is a princess of the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, which is constantly under attack by Bowser, and the Koopa Clowns she often plays the damsel in distress role within the series and is the lead female. She is also portrayed as Mario's love interest depending on how the palyer views the stortline. She has also appeared in all the Mario games to date, including Super Princess Peach, where she is the main playable character.

Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the Koopa race, and has been the archenemy of Mario ever since his first appearance, in the game Super Mario Bros. His ultimate goals are to kidnap Princess Peach, defeat Mario, and conquer the fictional Mushroom Kingdom.

P2 - E - Gameplay

P2 - F - Target Audience

That Dragon Cancer

That Dragon, Cancer reaches out to and audience that is an untraditional gaming audience, this is because the game is not your typical, point and shoot, adventure, action, game. As it attracts those who look for something different within a game and offers a first person experience.

This genre is a new and growing genre of the gaming world. The game is simplistic to play, which allows for casual gamers to be able to play the game as the controls used to play the game are simple meaning they are point and click.

New Super Mario Bros 2

The target Audience of New Super Mario Bros 2 ranges from a hard-core to casual gamer. With being a platform game it doesn’t have much of a storyline that has to be followed as such, it does have a story behind the game but the game can be play without the knowledge of this, the story is simply there to help the gameplay flow. The plot is very basic this means the game is something which a player can leave for a few days or weeks and still come back to play therefore making it appeal to a casual gamer.

However, it can also appeal to the hard-core/retro gamers who would want to play and complete the game in the shortest time possible with the aim of comparing between the retro Mario Bros games and this new one.

The age of the target audience can also range from those who are younger, as the game is quite straight forward to grasp and understand, to those who are older and are playing the game partly for a sense of nostalgia.



Grand Theft Auto

Due to the highly violent content and age restrictions GTA has only got an adult audience of aged 18 or over. However the audience has proved to be significantly older then 18, a study that Daily Mail online did suggests that gamers who play GTA V Online are considered to be 33% per cent more likely to have children and are twice as likely to be married. Also While most people imagine teenagers staying up all night playing such violent and aggressive games, there was an 'uncharacteristic spike' in the number if 55 to 64-year-olds playing the new game.


Gone Home

The Game is aimed for adults in there 20’s particularly the later twenties or older as they spent more of their childhood in the 90's. This target audience age is is precise since the game is set and takes place in 1995. this doesn't mean that the players have to be born in the 90’s however the scene will mean more to them then it would someone younger. It may bring back a lot of memories from their childhood.



 

P2 - G - Platforms

New Super Mario Bros 2

New Super Mario Bros 2 was sold for Nintendo 3D’s devices, both on disc and on the the Nintendo online e-store. The game has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and is the fifth best-selling games for the 3DS.

Official Nintendo Magazine gave the game 90% out of 100, however, heavily criticized the game for its 3D effects and lack of progression in the Mario Bros series, summarizing that "New Super Mario Bros. 2 is the very definition of bitter-sweet, giving with one hand and then taking away with the other. By default it's the best side-scrolling platformer on the 3DS and yes, it's even better than the original New Super Mario Bros. But that came out six years ago now, and in that time we'd really expected the series to have progressed a little further than just a 3D effect and Coin Rush mode."



That Dragon Cancer

That Dragon, Cancer is available to play on PC, Mac and iOS platforms, which includes iPad and iPhone. It can be purchased on the app store to download onto iOS platforms, which costs £3.99. However, users are also able to purchase the game from the main website which is encouraged by the creators as they place certain donations onto the price to help raise money for cancer charities, from the main site the game costs £6.49. The game can be purchased on a site called ‘Steam’ also which allows the user to download the game to their PC, on ‘Steam’ the game costs around £5.49, however the site will take a portion of the profit before the game creators/developers get their share.


Gone Home 

Fullbright that was founded by Steve Gaynor, Karla Zimonja, and Johnnemann Nordhagen as "The Fullbright Company” develped and produced the game Gone Home. The three had previously worked together at 2K Games like BioShock 2: Minerva's Den.

A developer commentary mode was added to the game in October 2013. On 4 March 2015, it was announced that the console version of the game had been canceled in the midst of its publisher's financial troubles. Despite all the troubles, nine months later on the 7th of December 2015 it was announced that the console version of the game had finally been scheduled for a release in January 2016 nearly 3 years late for the consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox.

Gone Home console edition, had been said to include features like enhanced graphics and audio, and was ported from Unity 4 to Unity 5 for maximum performance and look. Additionally, the Console Edition has been given enhanced controls especially for controller use, as the original PC version was created for keyboard, and not as well playable with a gamepad.

The game was made one of the selected PlayStation Plus games for the month of June in 2016. The game was made free from June 7 until July 5 for all subscribers to the service, available to keep as long as the subscriber has an active subscription.

Grand Theft Auto 

Grand Theft Auto V was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the 17th September 2013, this was the first copy of the game that was available to the puyblic. Just over a year later it was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2014. The Microsoft Windows version was further released on the 14th of April 2015

The game went on to become the highest grossing day one and week one release on Xbox Live. As of May 2014, the game had generated over $1.98 billion in revenue and as of August 2014, the game has sold in over 34 million units to retailers for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game had shipped 45 million copies to retailers, including 10 million copies of the re-released version for eighth-generation consoles in 31 December Finally in May 2016, the game had hit 65 million shipped copies across all platforms.

P3 - A - B - C - D - E - F - G

Red Dead Redemptions

A) Genre

IGN said that Read Dead Redemption was a “Western American” game. While the telegraph makes a bold statement in saying “Red Dead Redemption is the best Western ever made for a console and easily one of the best video games of this year.” This suggests they are in agreement with IGB over the fact that game is in fact part of the western genre. The telegraph also compares the game to Grand Theft Auto when it says “t's tempting to chalk Red Dead Redemption up as simply the Wild West entry in the Grand Theft Auto franchise.” This help to put the genre in place for users who know what GTA is like; an open world action adventure series created by the say company, Rockstar.


B) Target Audience

Gamesradar+ stated that in their own censor rating the game gained a “mature” rating. When explaining the storyline IGN tell us that if you “Walk through town and you might see a drunk assaulting a prostitute” This suggests that the target audience for the game is not children and more so adults. Further evidence to suggest this would be when the telegraph review states that “Red Dead Redemption contains several impressive action set pieces, involving cannons, Gatling guns and quick draw shoot-outs.” This further shows the game has a violent side to it which would be considered only appropriate viewing for adults.


C) Narrative/Storyline

IGN states that the storyline of Red Dead Redemption “will take you all over a vast swath of countryside that straddles the border between the U.S. and Mexico and along the way you'll meet, assist, and spill blood with a fantastic cast of supporting characters as Marston attempts to set things straight.” Along with comments made by the Telegraph “the player is dropped into its note-perfect Wild West environment.”


D) Characters

IGN states that “Red Dead Redemption puts you in the shoes of the relatively neutral John Marston.” This suggests the game is played form his point of view. Further more they go on to say how “the characters are wonderful with top notch dialogue and voice acting all good enough to make you feel a part of the world.” However, despite this they make a critique when the criticize the main character, “If there is any criticism I could level at the story, it's that Marston occasionally feels divorced from the action, his motivations muddled as he is all too willing to help anybody that asks for it despite his own pressing matters.”


E) Gameplay

The game play is described by IGN as captivating when they suggest “players keep coming back to the game for months and months due to something called Free Roam.” They later go on to explain this free form gameplay “This is the multiplayer lobby of sorts, but the concept has been cranked up a notch to be an entire game in itself. Free Roam lets up to 16 players join into one world and then explore the entirety of the single-player map. You can form posses and take part in little skirmishes, simply shoot each other in the face, assault bandit hideouts and forts as a team, or just ride across the countryside together while taking part in hunting and gathering challenges.”

Gamesradar+ makes the connection between previous titles made by the same company when it sates that the games gameplay “all plays out like GTA except in 1911.”


F) Platform

Red Dead Redemption is available on Xbox 360 and PS3, this is stated by The Telegraph. However, a comment made at the start of the IGN article “With Red Dead Redemption finally being added to the Xbox One backwards compatibility list today”

This suggests that the game was later added to Xbox One after its release.



G) Personal Recommendations
There are many reasons as to why Red Dead redemption is a successful game some include its connections to the very popular series GTA. This game series took off due to its open world gameplay something which Red Dead features and is one of the reasons it vows so well wit that side of the gaming world. Its uniqueness, is another reason why I think the game is successful this includes the environment and the story to which the game is played in. Not many games that are set in the wild west can be compared to and Top some of GTAs sales. I would recommend that the game is aimed towards an older audience just based off of the violence involved in parts of the storyline.

Article Source used;
 http://uk.ign.com/games/red-dead-redemption/xbox-360-14320288 

http://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-review/