Planetside 2

General:

Planetside 2 is an MMOFPS (Massively Multiplayer On-line First Person Shooter) game that is free to play on-line. It is a war game set in a sci-fi environment. 

Players elect to join one of three factions (The Terran Republic; The Vanu Sovereignty and The New Conglomerates) all of which are fighting for territory in the online environment. 

a.) What genre does this game belong to?

- The genre this game belongs to is MMOFPS. ( Massive Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter). It is also a free to play game designed by Sony Online Entertainment. 

b.) Planetside 2 Director/publisher ?

- Sony online entertainment directed and published Panetside 2

C.) When was it released?

- The free to play game, planetside 2, was released November 20, 2012. It is the remake of planetside, the original version.

d.) How does the gameplay work?

- Planetside 2 is featuring the same world, factions and taking place at roughly the same time period. As in the previous game, it features territory control in an open-world, large battles featuring up to 2000 players per continent on foot or in land/air vehicles. The territory system differs greatly from that of the original, being more free-form and based on a hexagonal territory control system. SOE has been taking into account balance issues from the first game. As stated by creative director Matthew Higby, they reward combatants on lower population empires through mechanics such as proportionally increased advancement rates and resources to aid the balance of overall empire saturation on each server as much as possible without force-restricting players from being able to play with their friends.^[4]

It is a faster paced game than the original PlanetSide and holds the ability to feature potentially thousands of players. It also features familiar first person shooter elements such as sprinting, iron sights, and regenerating shields. An important aspect is that player skill and teamwork are major determiners when it comes to being able to kill other players and overcome opposing teams. Unlockable skills are available and are stated to only make between a 15-20% difference between any player^{[citation needed]}. The game also features a day and night cycle, meaning that battles happen in different times of day, affecting the general methods for warfare.

Combat takes place on the continents of Auraxis which are broken up into many territories. Control of territories can provide bonuses to a faction in adjacent sectors. The mission system is partly automated and partly controlled by players. It provides focal points for players to attack and defend and helps players get into the action quickly.

As a player participates in productive activities, they will earn experience, which will increase their character's battle rank and reward them with certification points. As players gain experience, they will receive more certifications, allowing the player to unlock new abilities or items. These will allow the player to specialize in certain roles by allowing them to improve the weapons, vehicles or tools they use. Many certifications require the player to invest in multiple upgrade tiers of the certification, which will increase how effective the certification is. For example, players can purchase five ranks of Nanoweave Armor, which when equipped will increase the amount of damage they can sustain. Some certifications require the player to purchase prerequisite certifications, meaning a squad leader who wishes to unlock the ability to communicate using voice chat with an entire platoon will first need to unlock a certification to allow them to set squad waypoints. Using the certification system, players will be able to customize how they play using different classes or vehicles. For example, a player can purchase certifications to alter the main function of the Sunderer vehicle, meaning they can unlock the ability to have fellow squad members spawn from the vehicle, or as an alternative, give the vehicle the ability to repair and restock the ammunition of nearby allied vehicles.

d.) What are the six different player classes in the game?

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• The Infiltrator is a sniper class with special abilities of cloaking and hacking, and can use sniper rifles, scout rifles and submachine guns to deliver a devastating effect.
• The Light Assault class is a scout who uses carbines, submachine guns and shotguns. The Light Assault's special ability is Jump Jets, which allow them to fly through the air for a short period of time.
• The Combat Medic is a healing class. Their weapons include assault rifles, shotguns and submachine guns. The Combat Medic's special abilities allows them to heal and resurrect other players.
• The Engineer class has the special ability of repairing vehicles, turrets, and MAX Units. The engineer also has the ability to build anti-infantry and anti-vehicle turrets. The Engineer's weapons include carbines, shotguns submachine guns and battle rifles.
• The Heavy Assault class has light machine guns, submachine guns, shotguns, batte rifles, and also Rocket Launchers, which are effective at destroying enemy vehicles. They also have the special ability of shields to help them endure heavy fire.
• The MAX class has a mobile armored suit that allows them to take significant damage before dying. However, due to the suit they are also the slowest class. They have access to anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, and anti-air weapons. Max units cost resources to use.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 e.) What is the story or narrative to the game?

PlanetSide 2 is a Sci-fi Multiplayer online first person shooter set approximately 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis, although the chronology of the game universe starts a few years before. After the Earth has nearly come to ruin following a devastating war, the world's governments came to a consensus and united under one banner: the world-wide Terran Republic (TR). Some time later a wormhole, one which scientists fail to explain, appears and then disappears without a trace. Ex-President of the Terran Republic, Tom Connery, believes that the wormhole is a sign of existing extraterrestrial life and launches several space expeditions. The first expedition to Moon Belt gives a lead—a figurine of alien nature—giving Connery a reason to start a second expedition further into space. Several Terran Republic ships travel through the wormhole and are stranded for a very long period of time; their situation grows dire. Due to the crew's mental exhaustion and provision limit, strict curfews are applied. Later, a vote is held about the necessity of the measures. The positive vote wins, but only barely. There are nearly as many negative votes. A second vote is called. However, a terrorist bomb destroys the ship on which the vote is to occur, killing everyone aboard, including Connery. Curfews pass. Later, the expedition discovers the planet Auraxis, and as a result, Vanu, or "ancient", technology. Among this vast array of technology is "Rebirthing Chambers", capable of reviving any person from any kind of injury with even the smallest amount of genetic code. This removed the main tool of the Terran Republic on Auraxis, fear. As a result the Republic banned the use of this technology, but some scientists continued, forming the Vanu Sovereignty, as the Terran started to militarize to control this, a collection of separatists broke off, forming the New Conglomerate, who stole weapons and equipment from the militarization process. So exactly 175 years after Tom Connery and the other leaders of the Terran Republic were killed, the war between the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate breaks out. Following this, the New Conglomerate attacks the scientists who were still working on the alien technology, the Vanu Sovereignty, and they are as a result drawn into the conflict with the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate. This prevented any work towards finding a way to regain contact with Earth, and the war for Auraxis has been raging ever since.

Wiii Party

Wii Party

General search: 
The wii party was released on 8th July 2014. The game was developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It was directed by Shuichiro Nishiya and produced by Miyuki Hirose, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Sato. Since the release, the game had sold a massive 7.29 million copies and only 1,350,791 only in Japan.

Broadcast:  
In a TV advert you would expect to see and hear non dietetic sound, physical activities, celebrity endorsement, domestic setting with family oriented atmosphere. The key convections that I saw was Diversion from the beginning with the Redknapps. A luxurious family setting based in the living room  

Fifa 14 case study.

FIFA 14

General:

It was released on the 15^th November 2013 and FIFA 14 sold 28,088 on all formats to get to number one. FIFA 14 was developed by EA Canada and published by EA (electronic arts). It was released on a vary of platforms e.g. Android, IOS, windows phone 8, PS2, PS3, PS4, WII, X box and Microsoft windows.

The ‘we are FIFA 14” journey continues online with the FIFA 14 world tour, a website taking the form of an interactive 3D map. The “we are FIFA 14” depicts an armada of football fun, led by the one and only Messi. The trailer gives us the impression that Messi is playing the pied piper of FIFA, pulling a set of enormous TV screens suspended by parachutes behind him and attracting gamers of all sorts of shapes and sizes. 

Gravity Trailer (2013)

the movie gravity is incredibly exciting, visually amazing film is about two astronauts floating in space. The title refers to the one big thing almost entirely absent from the film: it's like The Seventh Seal being called Levity or Last Tango in Paris Chastity. With gorgeous, tilting planet Earth far below in its shimmering blue aura, a bulkily suited spaceman and spacewoman veer, swoop and swerve in woozy slo-mo as they go about their business tethered to the station, like foetuses still attached to their umbilical cords. The movie's final sequence hints at some massive cosmic rebirth; a sense that these people are the first or last human beings in the universe, like something by Kubrick.

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Camera views

This shot is a close-up which shows the expression of the murderer

This shot is a medium-close up, which shows the murderer following/stalking his victim and preparing to attack.

This shot is a Establishing shot. This shot shows where the victim has died and shows that her murderer is successful.. or so we think.

This shot is a over-the-shoulder view, which shows the murderer on the run and sees a police officer about to arrest him.

This shot is a medium close-up which shows that the odds have caught up to the murderer and shows him being arrested by a police officer about to spend life in Prison!

LIAR analysis on a video game

 Uncharted 2

Uncharted 2 was released on October 13 2009. The publishers of this game is ‘Sony Computer Entertainment’ and the directors are Bruce Straley and Amy Hennig. Uncharted 2 among thieves is an action ad venture third-person shooter platform video game developed by Naughty dog and published by Sony computer entertainment  for the Playstation 3. It is the sequel to the 2007 game uncharted: Drakes Fortune It was first shown and announced on December 1, 2008. Officially announced in the January 2009 issue of Game informer, it was released in October 2009.

A critical and commercial success, it was named by Metacritic as the most critically acclaimed game of 2009, and won Game of the year awards on IGN, Eurogamer , Game informer ,joystiq , kotaku , Giant bomb, AIAS , X PLAY, Game developers choice awards , and the Spike Video Game awards for the year 2009. A sequel and third entry to the series, Uncharted 3 Drakes Deception , was released on November 1, 2011.  

Why i chose media GCSE ? well ...

Why I Chose Media;

The main reason why I chose media GCSE is that I am interested in media it self and generally. I also like the careers that you can get with having a GCSE media because in year 9, I went to SKY headquarters and I became interested in media and I thought to myself; this is what I want to be when I am older. Also, I love the Media, everything about it; TV, movies, games etc.

Another reason why I chose it is because of views I heard about students who took this GCSE for year 9 (that is why I did not pick media GCSE for year 9) and they seem to be happy, enjoying, in-love with this subject. So I want to take media this year and I believe I can get a good grade – since my target grade is an A*. Talking about students, I asked some of my friends what they were going to pick, they chose media aswell and I thought since I love this subject; heard it was great and some of my friends are picking 

it, why not go for it.

The school provides good quality tools aswell. Such as cameras, Video recorders etc. So that i can work with. The teachers (Mr Matthews + Mr Harsley) are outstanding teachers who are enthusiastic and to be honest, good at their job.

 Also since the school is ‘outstanding’ and the best achieving secondary school in the borough Media shouldn’t be difficult for me. The pass rate I heard was 100% and I thought I can do well in that subject... and I will!    

500 word Review Homework

Uncharted 2 Review

by Abdifatah Basher




More than any other game to date, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune seems to define the PlayStation 3. Naughty Dog's 2007 jungle romp starring the one and only Nathan Drake gave gamers a taste of what it would be like to play as an acrobatically-inclined Indiana Jones. With stunning visuals (that still rank amongst the best in gaming today), a fantastically told story, great puzzles and high-octane gunplay, it's easily one of the best titles of this console generation.

Now Naughty Dog returns to the spotlight with uncharted 2 among thieves Both expectedly and amazingly, Naughty Dog has indeed bested Nate's first adventure and has created a sequel that is not only bigger and better in practically every way, but also packs a multiplayer component that could be released as its own separate, full-priced game and people would stand in line to hand over their cash.

Trying to remain as spoiler-free as possible, I'll just say that the story starts off about a year or so after the events of the first game and begins with Nate and a few fellow thieves working on finding Marco Polo's lost treasure fleet. Of course, things aren't quite that simple and the cast winds up going on a much grander adventure, one that takes them half-way around the world.

That's about as far as I want to go with the storyline, though some of the trailers out there actually reveal a little more than that. The important part here though is that this game doesn't just take place on a single island and instead changes locales a handful of times over the course of the adventure. The result is that the pacing feels better and faster, and even though you're technically doing the same sort of shooting, climbing and puzzle solving throughout the game, the different ways the scenes are presented gives Among Thieves a greater sense of gameplay variety than the original.

The great storytelling extends to the character development, which has been turned up a good notch or two. Almost everyone with more than two lines of dialogue has an interesting reason for doing what they're doing (though the main bad guy is just bad), and the way that everyone interacts with one another is realistic and interesting. Almost every character is unpredictable in some way, but not in a forced or unnatural manner.

The story itself twists and turns throughout the course of the game, as you might expect, and for the most part it's a solid tale. Nate and his pals go through a lot, so it does a good job of reeling you in and keeping you hooked until the end.

While I'd say the story is quite good overall, I wouldn't say that it's perfect. Without giving anything away, while most of the story has solid footing in real-world lore and legend, it does start to veer away from this at some point in a way that could have been handled better. Still, it's told very, very well through the use of fantastic cut scenes and acting, and will keep you guessing at what'll happen until the very end.

Fruit Bowl Colour Palette.

I selected Autumn as my colour palette and I had to colour this fruit bowl with that colour