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September 16, 2007

Abstration in the video game, and my childhood favorite Zaxxon

As I was reading this artical, this video game that I played on my old Ibm when I growing up came to mind. this game like many described in the artical had a crued repesentation of a spaceship that you had to navagate through a narrow space hall dodgeing walls and lasers. the game consisted of only 4 colors white, pale blue, purple, black. what I thought more about it after the reading is that there was a large aount of abstration to the game that I had never thought about. the games view point is a 3 quarter view of the back of the that moves down a diagonal strip of terrain that is only about 3 inching wide, the rest of the screen is compeletly black. the viewer was ment to accept the large amount of un-used black space and could interput its meaning base on there imagination. For example at the same time that I was playing Zaxxon I was also a huge fan of Star War. I thought of the game was a simalar to the sence where luke is flighting the xwing in the equator of the death star.

September 17, 2007

Mid \-term game

I will be playing World of Warcraft for my presentation

September 25, 2007

Woot for another Resident Evil

Man I was trying to get through life not need to buy a new video game system until I saw this. http://wii.ign.com/objects/827/827187.html, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles for the Nintendo wii. this game revisits the past resident evil game, but has changed the interface from 3person view to a first person shooter. The controller is called the wii zapper, which is a gun shaped attachment to the wii controller. One must always be prepared for the zombie apocalypse and now with Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles you can be too.

September 26, 2007

Half Life 2......... my thoughts

Its has been a long time since a first person shooter has impressed me since goldeneye for N64. from the short time I got to play I could tell that this game has much more interesting elements. my favorite aspect is the plot of the political atmosphere. I enjoyed the police uniforms very simaler to v for vendetta. It made me very interested in finding out more of the story. this type of plot is want is needed to keep me entertained in the game.

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