Visual Style

                                                 Visual Style

- What you can feel/experience – Atmosphere (Dark, nasty)

 

- Each production team have their own style/feel like Rockstar who have very dark and violent feel to each game where deaths happen can happen at any time. Whereas Activision make more military based games which feel more upbeat and more tension compared to Rockstar.

- Games like Assassins Creed have a stealth based style which is very unique as well because of their unique free running style. Assassins Creed also has a dark/violent style because of the type of assassinations. It is also is unique because it is historic and teaches its player about certain parts of history.

- Borderlands and World of Warcraft both have a very comic feel to them even though they are very different genres. Also Brink which has a cartoon feel to it with its graphics.

 

-Games like Fifa, NHL and Madden which have a very positive feel to them and a competitive side which is unique to these game styles due to the game options like Ultimate team and Pro Clubs where you can play against each other for rewards or to give your player a better overall.

 

-Also Forza and F1 both have very intense and competitive edges to them which also gives the player a little adrenaline rush which makes them play slightly better and makes them make decisions they wouldn’t normally try to do, it also makes the person playing the game appreciate the detail that has gone into the game with the scenery and the detail of the cars which looks realistic and sometimes can make the player forget that they are actually playing a game.. Also UFC is a game that also gives you adrenaline and makes you sit on the edge of your seat to try and not lose in your career.

 

-Gears of War is a military style game and has a unique style to it with the type of executions you can perform which is very dark and violent which is unique to Gears of War. Warhammer 40k Space Marines has a very similar style to Gears of War which the way it feels and with the type of violence it contains.

 

-Transformers has its own unique visual style due to it being able to have different visuals by transforming which is a unique style to the game and being able to have different modes before you are fully transformed. Some of the games have a slight cartoon feel.

 

-Minecraft has its own style with the blocks look which is unique to that game and is its own signature look. It also has an adrenaline feel on survival mode where the person has to survive and create a house to live in, so it is very nervy when you are attacked. It also has a feature called creative mode which allows people to create whatever they want to or create games in minecraft.

-Hitman Absolution has its unique style due to it letting the player complete the mission how they want to as long as they complete certain objectives for that mission. It also has its own style by the violence and dark themes in which you can kill your targets by, like making it look like an accident or just killing them which is detailed but in a dark nature. Sniper Elite is also a very violent and graphical game with its special slow time motion and detail it has when the bullet hits the enemy which is unique but also considered very dark on how detailed it is, which is not used on any other game.