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ViewtifulBoe's Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
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| [February 23, 2007 07:52:09 AM]
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After playing more of the game Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas, I noticed more things about the level design, the character, as well as a few other things that help to really shape and create awesome gameplay. The main character, CJ, starts out as a pretty scrawny guy, in a white tank top, with a boring hair cut, and not much fighting abilities. However, the player can actually choose from hundreds of articles of clothing and accessories all over the city to make CJ dress better. The player can also get him a better haircut, and the more that the player runs, works out, rides bikes, rides motorcycles, and other various tasks, the more CJ's stats. go up. Example/ If a player runs all over the city, CJ's run stats. raise meaning he can run further without running out of breath. The player must also make sure that he goes to a restaurant often so that CJ can eat or he'll get weaker. This aspect of game design puts the player into a position where they feel very much in touch with the gameplay and they feel a connection with the main character, almost like they are controlling an extension of themselves. The game designers also did an amazing job with the creation of the levels. The detail ranges from the tops of mountains, to the bottom of seafloors, and yet, the graphics aren't overwhelmingly good or bad, and it allows for an amount of loading that gives us big levels with not too much loading time. If I were in charge of the next Grand Theft Auto game, I would continue to add more weaponry to the players arsenal. Vice City and San Andreas had pretty similar weapon arsenals (which was disappointing for me). I believe that more weapons and more cars make the game more fun. In San Andreas they added a feature where the player could "supe" up a car by adding spoilers, rims, paintjobs, nitrous oxide, etc. I would like to see them expand on that idea for the next game and really make it a prominant aspect of the game. The music selections for all the grand theft auto games are pretty good, whoever makes the tracks does a great job, I would leave him to keep doing his job. I feel that a character creation mode (like the tony hawk series) would really be a cool addition to the game. Rockstar is not dropping big bucks of the graphics of the game, so custom characters would be easy to do. I also liked the addition of learning things such as martial arts. How about other traits such as learning to graffiti, drive, climb, and other things like skateboarding, computer hacking, weapon modification, I'm not 100% sure, I'm just thinking about possibilites. With the incredible amount of freedom that this game offers the player, it makes it truly epic, and hopefully the follow up game will continue to be an amazing game.
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| [February 23, 2007 07:32:42 AM]
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For my gamelog I played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is the most recent grand theft auto game to be released onto the playstation 2 console. Rockstar (the creators of the game) took a new approach to the grand theft auto games by targeting the "hip-hop" crowd. The main character is a man from the ghetto named CJ who was just released from jail. Then (like the other grand theft auto games) you must so missions and tasks until you are wealty and powerful. The game's story was very good and well thought out. It was resonably simplistic, but it kept the gameplay constantly moving. The game relies more on freedom and gameplay more than cinematics and storyline. The level design really makes the gameplay good in San Andreas. The citys in the games are huge and take days to really get to know well. Plus, you unlock more places to explore as the game progresses, your starting city (which is gigantic) is only ~ 1/3 of the land maybe ~1/4 of the map. The incredible freedom that the game offers, awesome building, city, and landscape design really puts the player into the game and makes it a super entertaining game. I felt that one of the greatest aspects of the level design was that there were so many levels within the large level. Small hick towns, forests, mountains, and giant cities such as Las Vegas, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles are some of the levels within the grand map. The game also does a great job at keeping the game interesting by providing not only a variety of fun and interesting tasks and missions, but hours of things for the player to do such as killing rampages, racing, stealing cars, flying helicopters, fighting, taking taxi cab fares, fighting fires, motorcycle stunts, boats, swimming, hunting for grafitti to tag over, secret weapons, and many other things as well. I felt that the game had a great system of rewards, you get money, cars, houses, businesses, and weapons from completing certain missions. So every mission you beat makes you stronger. This game is a one player game, and the pedestrains in the game don't communicate with the player very much, but you usually wind up shooting, fighting, or scaring them off, so its fine that they don't communicate (it also makes them easy to kill without feeling bad because they don't feel human). Overall, this is an amazing game and it has great replay value.
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ViewtifulBoe's Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Friday 23 February, 2007
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