80's,90's, Now (Question 2)

From the 80's to now there have been some great achievements accomplished in video games, from small begins for example: a yellow circle chasing ghosts around a maze for pellets to committing crime by stealing cars around a open world map. What has changed mostly in games today since the 80's? Setting, Environments,  and Levels. I played three Different games from three different decades of gaming Which were: Pacman, Starcraft, Batman Arkham City.

Pacman(1980)

You play as a yellow circle know as Pacman, you main goal is to collect all the white Pellets in a maze while avoiding the four ghosts floating around. 

Classic Style of game play, player starts in a maze setting the scene of the objective. The Environment of the game is the maze, rewarding you with points, as you progress through each maze the next level will start giving you a harder and more challenging levels.

 

StarCraft(1998)

A Real Time Strategy violent sci-fi experience, player chooses from three different races which are: Terran, Zerg, and Protoss, each race visually different and with a mixture of upgrades and technologies.

With a top down view player builds bases and units to explore and conquer their enemies, with a wide range of campaign and online maps created in  2-D environments with some 3-D aspects. Levels holding different terrain and features such as: Volcanoes, Mountains,Snow, and much more.

Batman Arkham City(2011)

You Play as possibly one of the best well known comic book heroes of all time Batman. Arkham City is a open world environment set in a action adventurer genre, you fight your way to defeat all the iconic Batman Villains such as: Bane,The Penguin,and Joker

With a 3rd person view, you progression in Arkham City will reveal more of the 3-D Environments within the city such as: underground subway,abandon buildings, and hidden streets. the map is a open has open world features which you can explore, with a tight story line, the Setting is the same but the environment becomes more harder.

To compare these games all with different genres, the design of there environments and levels are in my opinion they are fun to play and original and has shown what has changed since we first gazed at the video game, Pong.