week 5

The biggest problem that reviews especially magazine reviewers have is time, as stated in keiron gillen's workblog, he picks up the point that there simply is not enough time to think and find out why for example games are buggy, or why the voice of a charecter is not in sync with the movement of their lips. This is because they are forced to find quick faults to point ot without first truly understanding why their there in the first place. This makes for a very poor way of reviwing a game but at the same time do people really want to hear "well they tried their best"?. i think that a better way to review a game is by actually listening to some body who has played it thoughroughly and can give an overall score for the game i.e (10/10). For instance the readers review of project gotham racing 3 has alot more of a personal language to it, therefore if you can relate to that person and they like the game subcontiously your going to think of well in that case il like this game too. NGJ is a form of writing about a game but as though describing everything thats happening in the conversations with other charecters for example, yet things thats happening in real life too "at this point my girlfreind popped her head into the study". This way of writing to me seems a really individual approach and shows how passionate the individual is about a particualr issue, this way the reader knows everything they know about the topic at hand, I really like the idea of NGJ i find it keeps me interested in reading. another form of writing i can think of in game walkthroughs these give a outline of the story of a game and much information, but will allways lack notes of the graphical parts of games and almost allways lack personality. the problems with games reviewers that they have little time to produce a review therefore they rush it and the information they give is not particularly correct, but this is how they make their money, if they complete a review they get their cut from the publishng company. In my writing i beleive I base my points on fact but then once facts are straight i can branch of and say my opinions about it, i.e the graphics are cutting edge technology with the charecters having 10000 polygons is unbeleivable, but the particular style of the game is not all my taste.