There have been many games throughout our history but which ones really stand out as classics?
The Japanese game Okami, featured on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii draws on Japanese folklore for its setting. The entire set for this game is made to look like a hand-drawn watercolor, with delicate brush strokes and leaders of shades. It is still an adventure game, but it is an artistic one. On the Wii, when you use your controller, you end up making delicate brush strokes to alter the scene before you. When delicate Japanese music moving you on, it is hard to ever get jaded on this, one of the top video games out there.
Another type of game is know as online games or MMORPGs. These include famous Internet games such World of Warcraft but there is a new game which seems to be grabbing a lot of attention in the online news. The game is Rift and has a certain style to it that make give it a long term future and quite possibly make it into a classic one day. I suggest you read a Rift guide blog to learn more about the game.
Great art is also the theme of Shadow of the Colossus. This fighting game doesn’t merely follow one of the traditional plot lines seen in video games. To begin with, the setting of the game occurs in a place filled with structures that are colossal in a way that the game’s programmers somehow imbued with a feeling of vertigo. Through this humbling scenery do you go fighting your foes in tightly choreographed Bruce Lee type motions. The game doesn’t try to overdo it, and keeps the length down to where it is just right. Not only is this a wonderful artistic game, it is also a blockbuster on the sales charts of top video games.
Of course artistic graphics is not the most important parts of games but it has a strong audience.
The Japanese don’t have great internationally known movie makers like James Cameron or Peter Jackson; video games are their art form instead. The PlayStation 3 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is Japan’s answer into videogame arena to, say, the Terminator movies over here. The game has excellent visuals of course, but nothing is lost in the storytelling department either. The cinematic effect is humbling, and the brilliantly directed fight scenes are quite epic. Of course this plot depends on Japanese mythology that may take a little time for gamers to get around; they say that the director of this videogame Hideo Kojima always wanted to make his mark on Hollywood. This looks like a brilliant start.
Well I hope you have enjoyed my overview of what I think are classics and a some possible classics to be.