CIS 487 – Game Evaluation Nate Baumgartner

Basic Information  Destiny  Developer: Bungie Studios  Writers: Joseph Staten, Dave Mongan, Joshua Rubin  Action role-playing FPS, MMO  $59.99  XBox One

Game Summary  Quick Overview  Play as a Guardian, protecting Earth’s only remaining city after the fall of the Golden Age.  Choose a class, Go on missions, play solo, coop, or PvP  Installation  Took about 25 mins to install onto my system  UI  Well thought out, did not take long to figure out  Menu system flows well  Scoring  Keeps track of your kills during mission, PvP has scoring

Game Summary cont.  Artwork  Really cool, detailed, and immersive  Very impressive overall  Helps bring story together, details in worlds help bring the story to life  Enemies are detailed and gruesome  Sound and Music  Gets you into the game, gets louder during boss battles  Flows with game play very well  Special Features  Free roam worlds  Leveling up  No shortage of guns  No manuals or bugs that I found

Game Review  What’s Good  Online Coop  Weapon choices  Controls are easy  A lot of different things to do  Gameplay flows well Regular and side missions appear regularly, keeps things moving slowly  What’s Bad  Story is a bit confusing – it is not explained very well.  Switching weapons gets annoying – have go through menu systems

Game Review cont.  Better or worse than similar games  Better Weapons, and enemies are better RPG aspect makes it more fun Artwork was better Social factor added a lot Special abilities added a lot Worse Missions start to feel repetitive (Bounties, patrols….) Story was weak No pause!!! Audience 10 and up

Summary  Overall strengths  Artwork and Soundtrack  Gameplay and Controls  Great coop  Overall weaknesses  Storyline  Game length  Worth purchasing?  Maybe, if you like exploring and ok PvP then yea, or just rent it.

How could it be improved  Biggest thing is the story  Needs to be better explained, maybe more detailed  Needs to be a little longer  Expansions may help  Some of the ways things are done could be changed  Swapping out weapons takes too long sometimes  Loading times can be long  Different types of mission, not just killing stuff