Task 4

Simulation: Star Citizen: Star citizen is a space simulation game, the game takes simulation to the max. the game has a fully working economical system in the universe so that almost everything that you do can have an effect on how the universe works such as price of ships and so on. The game simulates everything that happens in the real world only changed to fit into the futurist genera of the game. Arma 3: Arma 3 is a modern war game simulator. The game captures military mission the people of you have created in high detail, the game has a very in-depth simulation on how the bullets work changing depending on wind distance and so on. The game also shows how things such as heat and pain will effect a solider such as shaking finding it hard to aim and being un able to run fast after being injured. Narrative: both of the games have a similar type of narrative. Star Citizen is a game where you make your own story, you can deiced what you want to do and how to do it. In Arma 3 you are given a mission or an objective and can pursue that however you feel like, creating your own stories to tell on how you did that mission and what happened when doing it. Representation of characters: In Arma 3 the characters are basically avatars for yourself, you are given a small customization but other than that they don’t do much in the game, you are the voice of the character and control every move that he does. In Star Citizen the character is almost the same as Arma 3 in the way that you give the character his voice and personality but you have a much wider range of customizability in the characters appearance. Audience: Star Citizen attracts a wide range due to how much is in the game. Mainly the game will attract people who are fans of space simulator games and has attracted quite a lot of people who are big fans of the film star wars. Arma 3 attracts people that are fans of hard core FPS game or role playing game due how much role playing can be done in this game. Conclusion: The game genre of simulation has a very wide audience coming from all areas of games. The games that I have chosen, although quite similar are also very different games in the way that they attract very different audiences and simulate completely different things.