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Video Game Industry And Audience


  • Specialised industry 
  • Huge expenditure in resources 
  • Much higher RRP (Recommended Retail Price)
  • Significantly longer length
  • A dedicated core target audience
  • Multiplayer platforms


Assassins Creed 3: Liberation

published by Unisoft in 2012 for the playstation vita


  • Pegi is the regulator of video games and gives them an appropriate age rating
  • Representation of different ethnicities 
  • Representation of different social classes 
  • Violent fight scenes 
  • Women are represented as the protagonist 
  • Phrases such as "all new missions" "upgraded levels and environments" "refined game play" "a true HD experience" 
  • Action shots 
  • Dialog between the characters
  • Cinematic trailer 
  • The game wants to target a specialised and generalised audience
  • Music used in the trailer is dramatic and builds as the trailer progresses 
  • Scenes in the trailer looks very different to actual game play in order to make it more dramatic
  • Familiar scenes will help the audience to know what they're getting into, making them want to buy the game for the familiarity 


Changing the main character of the video game to a black female instead of a while male will help to attract a generalised audience (females). this is because they can relate to the character which makes the game more attractive to them.

Hermonutic code has been used in the trailer to create mystery with unanswered questions 

 Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft, and released on October 30, 2012 in North America, with a worldwide launch the following day, on PlayStation Vita. 
Initial release date: 30 October 2012
Composer: Winifred Phillips
Producer(s): Martin Capel
Developers: Ubisoft, Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Montreal
Awards: Writers Guild of America Award for Achievement in Videogame Writing
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Reception of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation

Initial reviews for Assassin's Creed III: Liberation were mixed. Metacritic, which assigns a score based on reviews from industry leaders, has the game scored at 70/100 based on 71 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Shaun McInnis, reviewer for GameSpot, gave the game a score of 6.5/10, praising the protagonist as "...a woman born from the romance between a wealthy father and a slave mother, someone who has overcome her uncertain upbringing to find a new life in the Assassin Brotherhood". McInnis also commended the setting, writing "...a brilliant version of 18th-century New Orleans, one that beautifully reflects the diverse cultural ambience formed over years of operating as a French trading port". However, he also wrote that the game "squanders its most unique ideas...Liberation takes little advantage of its own narrative format" and that the plot is "largely aimless and hastily delivered".

IGN's Greg Miller stated, "The moves and kills you'd expect are here, but the story is boiled down to be easy to jump in and out of. That takes away some of the excitement in playing through it", giving it 7.2/10. In December 2015, Game Informer ranked the game as the 10th best game in the Assassin's Creed series to date.

Unisoft

UniSoft Corporation is an American software developer established in 1981, originally focused on the development of Unix ports for various computer architectures. Based in Millbrae, California, it now builds standardization and conformance testing applications for the digital television market.

UniSoft was founded on October 5, 1981, in Emeryville, California. Their original business was Unix development, and they were soon recognized as one of the early implementers of Unix for the emerging 16-bit microcomputer market. By 1989, they had completed over 225 Unix implementations on various hardware platforms, which was estimated to have been about 65% of all such ports. UniSoft's port of Version 7 Unix was the first operating system for Sun Microsystems' Sun-1 workstations and servers. It also developed Apple Inc.'s Unix variant, A/UX, for the Apple Macintosh II.
In 1991, the company moved to its current offices in Millbrae, California. UniSoft shifted its focus to the television industry in 1997, in order to address standards compliant software in that market. It now works solely in development, testing, and broadcast tools for digital television.

Games Produced By Unisoft (90's 00's and 10's)

Rayman is a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Ubi Soft. As the first instalment in the Rayman series, the game follows the adventures of Rayman, a hero who must save his colourful world from the evil Mr. Dark. 
Initial release date: 1995
Platforms: PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, 

Batman: Gotham City Racer is a racing game released in 2001 by Ubisoft for the PlayStation. It is
based on The New Batman Adventures and incorporated many clips from the series into the game. Initial release date: 19 April 2001
Platform: PlayStationModes: Single-player video game, Multiplayer video game

Just Dance 4 is a music video game developed by Ubisoft as the fourth main instalment of the Just Dance series. 
Initial release date: 2 October 2012
Mode(s): 1-4 players
Awards: Kids’ Choice Award for Favourite Video game



Platforms: Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

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