What Makes a Game Great.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is set in 1899 and follows the Dutch Van Der Linde outlaw gang as they travel through America committing felonies. The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 is a very harsh and unforgiving world, with plenty of diversity. There are snowy mountains to the north, swamps of the Bayou down south and forests across the map. The map has its own fauna in each region. These fauna range from big to small, extremely dangerous to passive. These include bears, mountain lions, salmon and deer. In the game you play as Arthur Morgan, the world interacts with how you play the game so if you choose to be a bad person and get low honour then the locals in towns will behave more hostile towards you, and your character will be charged more in shops. If you have high honour however, the npcs are more nicer towards your character, and you receive a discount in the shops. If you ride through a town and cause trouble the inhabitants will remember and will be angry with you if you ride through again.

The game can be played in the first and third person perspective. Both have their own advantages. First person helps you when you are in fire fights in a town and third person helps you when you are riding through places. The games dimension is 3-D. The map is roughly 29 square miles big. Time is a big factor in the game when it comes to hair growth of the character and when it comes to the gangs camp, the longer you are away the more the camp gets hungry and low on supplies. The player can adjust the time of the game by sleeping for set number of hours. the game requires good reflexes and precision aim for the weapons. In the game you can get items to sell to make more money. You can acquire these items by hunting them or by robbing them off people.

Dying Light.

Dying Light is set in a city called Harran. Harran is in quarantine because of a deadly zombie infection. The world of Dying light is a very violent one. There are 2 warring factions fighting over supplies that are dropped by health organisations. The health organisations drop antizin which helps keep the infection at bay for those who are bitten. The factions are at war with each other for this very resource. The player can loot most areas of the world and can also interact with every building as this game is heavily based on parkour. The game is set in first person and first person only. It is in the 3rd dimension. The map is a fairly good size. The edges of the map are blocked off by a barbed wired fence to stop the player from leaving the area. Time matters in the game as during the day the zombies are slow and harmless, the only enemies you have to worry about are the human bandits, but at night time there is a new enemy that is more powerful and more deadly. The challenges are the enemies themselves. The game also has an economy just like red dead where you can trade and sell stuff.