Hey
Blogger!
This is my new blogger account as i forgot the details of my old one but, from now on all media blogger updates will be on this account,
anyways...
So
its nearly the end of summer and i thought it would be a good idea to finally
make a start on my media studies
project -seeing as ive been away through out the WHOLE summer holiday!
For
this blogger update, ive been asked to do a project on a video game of my
choice.
I've
had to think long and hard on what game i should do my project on but with the
help of my "video-game obsessed" brother (as i dont particularly
prefer video games) i finally came to a conclusion and decided to do this
project on the video game "Assassins creed 3" -as its one of the only
video games that actually interest me along with the rest of the assassins creed
series.
The brief story line of the game is about an assassin named Connor Kenway who is in the middle of the American Revolutionary War. Connor is fighting his own battle, which crosses with the events of the Revolutionary War. Because Connor was focusing on fighting against the British, instead some British characters are portrayed as good while some are characterized as bad. The game explores the confusing "grey area" between the Assassins and the Templars, rather than simply saying one half is good and other is bad.
The
Assassins creed series consists of the following video games:
·
Assassin's Creed (
Altair )-
Platform-
X Box 360, Play station 3, Microsoft Windows
Release
date- November 13, 2007
Current
Price- £10-15
No.
of copies sold- 4,677,000
·
Assassin's Creed II
( Ezio )
Platform-
X Box 360, Play station 3, Microsoft Windows
Release
date- November 17, 2009
Current
Price- £16
No.
of copies sold- 8,070,000
·
Assassin's Creed
Brotherhood ( Ezio )
Platform-
X Box 360, Play station 3, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Release
date- November 16, 2010
Current
Price- £20-25
No.
of copies sold- 6.5 million
·
Assassin's Creed Revelations ( Ezio )
Platform-
X Box 360, Play station 3, Microsoft Windows
Release
date- November 15, 2011
Current
Price- £15
No.
of copies sold- 7 million
·
Assassin's Creed 3 (
Connor )
·
Assassin's Creed 4
Black Flag ( Edward )
Platform- PlayStation 3, Wii U & Xbox 360,
Release
date- October 29, 2013 release in North America, October 31, 2013 release for
Australia, European release on November
1, 2013 and a Japanese release on November 28, 2013.
Current
Price- £43-61 (to pre-order)
No. of copies sold- still waiting to be released
The
genres of Assassins Creed 3 are
historical/action/adventure and its a third person shooter. It also is an open
world stealth game, which means the main player can move around freely in an
open virtual world but the player must avoid being caught by the enemy. These
types of games usually come under the action/adventure genre.
The game was released on the 30th
of October 2012 which means its only
been out for just under a year and in that short amount of time its sold
over 12 milllion copies worldwide.
The
game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
The platforms of this game are Play station 3, Xbox 360, Wii U & Microsoft windows and its currently being sold at £18-£25.
The
way assassins creed 3 has been promoted has obviously been successful due to
the astonishing number of copies sold in just under a year.
Assassins
Creed has its own twitter & facebook page to update gamers and fans and
promote the games from the assassins creed series (including assassins creed
3). It also has a youtube channel where they update it with trailers and clips
from the game.
Facebook
page:
Youtube
channel:
The
way all the social networking sites have presented the pages to promote the
game, really appeal to gamers who are interested in action/adventure games
because on every site they have put dark yet adventrous colours such as khaki,
orange, and navy blue and also each site shows an assassin warrior, usually a
different character for each new game that’s released, depending on who is the
main player.
Also
to promote the game & to give gamers an insight ubisoft made a trailer of
the game (link & video below).
Another way ubisoft promoted the game was by making a short demo available
for people to download for free on their consoles. The demo was a success as it
lead to people buying it more.
This game is categorized an 18+ and the target audience would mainly be men with a percentage of approximately 70%. The remaining 30% would be a female audience. I believe the majority of the viewers are men because they are usually more interested in action and violent games. However the game is also set in a historical period which may attract the female population and it doesn’t include too much gore and blood.
This game is categorized an 18+ and the target audience would mainly be men with a percentage of approximately 70%. The remaining 30% would be a female audience. I believe the majority of the viewers are men because they are usually more interested in action and violent games. However the game is also set in a historical period which may attract the female population and it doesn’t include too much gore and blood.
To conclude, I personally think that the game was overall successful as the way ubisoft promoted it was excellent and it’s available on the three main consoles people own and it sold at quite a reasonable price.
Thats it from me bloggers, byeeeeeee x
Thats it from me bloggers, byeeeeeee x
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