Story telling in games

Story telling in video games

Top ten games

1. world of warcraft is an RPG game in which you take on the roll of a massive selection of characters from humans all the way to goblins, when you've chosen your character you then get to choose there class such as a warrior or a mage and so on. finally after this you are brought into a massive world to level up your skills and meet new friends to level up with. the story behind World of Warcraft is so big that i can't even give a brief summary of the game its that big. there are 5 massive expansions added on to the main game each on progressing the story line further and further adding more and more content, you could write a handful of books from the story line in this game which is why its impossible to give a summary of the story. you can tell a lot of effort has been put into this games story line.

2. another example of this would be counter-strike, arguably the first pioneers for the fps genre. Counter-strike is an online game with no campaign missions, unlike most fps’s of today like Call of Duty. In counter-strike you either play as 1 of two teams, the terrorists or the counter terrorists. The aim of the terrorist’s side is to plant the bomb at a bomb site and make sure that no one diffuses it while the counter terrorists have to stop them from doing so. This game is heavily based around gunplay and teamwork.

3. One great example of this is the resident evil series, specifically 4 as it is regarded as one of the best ones. This game is based on a random unknown village in an unspecified part of Europe, the player is sent in to save his friend. While in the village though he finds the blood thirsty villagers trying to kill him. This game is great because it sets up a scary atmosphere very well, a lot of enemies will jump out at you creating a jump scare effect. Another way is that the game gives you very little ammo, and with what ammo you do have you have an inventory system that you have to organise to fit stuff into it. This is the handicap the game gives you. This topped with some scary and hard boss fights makes a hard and scary game.

4. Another example is Runescape. Runescape is a free to play MMORPG containing thousands upon thousands of people playing it. Set in the world of Runescape your player is sent to complete various quests for people to gain higher stats and sometimes good item rewards to use in combat. The main point of runescape is to achieve a higher level in all of your skills, for example the cooking skill, cooking food in runescape gives you experience points in the cooking skill. The maximum level you can get for a skill is 99 and this is what most players aim for in most skills.

5. Probably one of the most popular simulation games of all time is the Sims. This game is about real life and It’s as simple as that, you first of start by making a family, or just a single sim, in which you then buy a house for your sim to live in. after that you get them a job and make sure that all of their needs are fulfilled for example energy and hunger and Once you’ve done all of that you wait for your sim to die, or you could just kill them yourself as you are essentially the god of the sim world, it’s all up to you.

6. Fifa is a good sports game and arguably one of the most popular one as well. Fifa is based on its real life counterpart football, the aim of the game is two teams verse each other at trying to kick a ball into the other team’s nets while defending and attacking the opposing teams.

7. portal is a physics based puzzle game. The game involves the player traversing an abandoned science lab getting guided by a corrupt AI computer using a portal gun to get from one game to another.

8. Skyrim is quite a popular RPG game which is also a third or first person game. You take the role of whatever race and gendered character you decide to choose and embark on an adventure to save the land of skyrim from the evil dragon Alduin, along the way you meet a variety of different people and can join a variety of different societies in the game.

9.Apart from splinter cell, metal gear solid is arguably one of the most popular stealth game out there on the market. You play as snake trying to infiltrate Russia to retrieve someone from the clutch of the Russians, you must sneak your way past enemies, defeat difficult bosses and infiltrate your way into enemy strong holds all while staying undetected. Combat is hard in this game when you have alerted other guards which gives you all the more reason to use stealth to get about.