Nick Allen Article for Assessment 2

The article I looked at was called "War Games" by Chris Sullentrop published in the New York Times on the 08/09/10.

The article "War Games" goes into detail about the reasons why war games are successful. Sullentrop believes that authenticity is the very important in war games as it brings the player into the game. Authenticity needs to be shown in the character, events and weapons used in the game. War game in general are very popular with the 18-29 year old market and attracting these people needs to be the goal of our game. These people want to be able to feel as if they are performing the tasks that real soldiers are doing. In regards to our adaptation this means that fans of the movie need to feel thatr the game stays relevant to the movie in terms of characters, weapons, tasks and events that are occuring. Sulletrop also said that first person shooter is the prefered genre of a war game and so this will be the genre we will use. Overall the "War Games" article was useful as it prvided some good ideas about the design of a war game.