Friday, 26 June 2015

Task 2: Fallout 4 Trailer Analysis



Genre
Fallout 4, like all of the other games in the Fallout series, is an RPG, meaning Role Playing Game. This means that the player can make their own path in the game, creating their own character as well as choosing from multiple dialogue options during conversations in order to shape your characters personality and deciding what kind of person your character will be. This allows the player to play as either a standard protagonist or a sort of anti-hero, due to the fact that the character can be made to be evil. This is represented in game through the use of a karma system, with evil characters having low karma and good, more heroic characters having high karma. Fallout also has the attributes of an action game, as well as being a shooter.

Duration
The above trailer is 3:04 long, which would most likely be too long to be shown during an advert break on television. Due to this, it is likely that the trailer was made to be viewed by less traditional methods, mainly online through the use of YouTube and other video streaming sites. The trailer was first released for viewing on Bethesda's website and after after a timer had ticked down to 0 the trailer was shown. due to this being the first trailer for the game, this length is quite appropriate, because it takes the time to show the location and set the tone of the game, as well as showing some of the other features of the game.

Sound
The music that is heard at the start of the trailer and continues onwards in the background is a song called "It's All Over". this song is from a band named "The Ink Spots" and the song was first released in 1947. The Ink Spots music has also featured in previous games due to the fact that the majority of the music in the game is from the 1950's and 60's. The Ink Spots song "I Don't Want to Set The World on Fire" was used in the trailer for Fallout 4's prequel: Fallout 3. Due to the use of their songs in the Fallout game series, The Ink Spots have gained somewhat of a cult following well beyond their years among fans of the series. Towards the end of the trailer, there is a short voice over by Ron Pearlman, who has also done voice overs for the previous game trailers at well as voice overs in the actual games. He says the quote "War... War never changes" which has become known as a famous tag line or catchphrase for the fallout series and which has featured in all 5 of the games (Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas and Fallout 4.)


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