Monthly Archives: November 2012

  1. Gameplay Reflection on Halo 4 (2012)

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    November 20, 2012 by zachklempf

    Gameplay Reflection This week in our Film 373 lab we played the newest addition to the Halo franchise, Halo 4. …
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  2. The Sims: No Parody of Consumerism

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    November 20, 2012 by Xiaoxin

    The Sims: No Parody of Consumerism The Sims may be one of very few games that terrible gamers such as …
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  3. Madden 13: The Dreaded Controls

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    November 19, 2012 by oliviavolarich

    Madden 13: The Dreaded Controls From the minute we put Madden 13 into the console, I was worried. I must …
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  4. BioShock: My First Video Game

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    November 19, 2012 by ald7th

    I’m still not entirely sure what possessed me to buy BioShock.  I also have no idea how I ended up …
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  5. Halo 4 and Flow

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    November 19, 2012 by sczaja200

      Stephen Czaja Halo 4 is a first-person futuristic shooter developed by 343 Industries for the Xbox 360. Released on …
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  6. Video Game Homework: Serious and Casual Games

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    November 19, 2012 by tanineallison

    Here is your homework for the Thanksgiving break. Please play as many and as much of these as you can. …
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  7. Wreck It Ralph

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    November 17, 2012 by Xiaoxin

    I didn’t know about this movie until today… Video Game villain gets frustrated about his negative portrait and is up to …
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  8. A (very) Brief Poetics of Saves

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    November 17, 2012 by rcthames

    For the earliest video games, each playthrough was made to be played in a single session (though of course there …
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  9. From Realism to Rhetoric and Back Again: Galloway’s Social Realism Versus the Just Cause Franchise

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    November 17, 2012 by johnroberts373

    Are Just Cause and its sequel Just Cause 2 (Avalanche Studios, 2006 and 2010) realistic? To what if any extent …
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  10. Discussion 11/16

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    November 15, 2012 by rcthames

    Since we’ve been talking about first-person shooters, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss in more detail some questions …
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