This document summarizes and analyzes three YouTube game reviews from IGN. It finds that they all provide concise, reliable reviews that use gameplay footage and sound as background. They also sometimes include soundtrack music. The document concludes that providing background music or soundtracks, as these reviews do, could help engage audiences for its own work.

1. Research
Andrew Downes

2. Existing Products
Link to the podcast/documentary;
• This is a IGN YouTube review for fallout new
Vegas.
• Their sound effects that they use are mainly
from gameplays and trailers and then there is a
very positive review from the reviewer where
they talk about the game itself, some of the
mechanics and the past games it also makes
references to the genre it belongs too. This
seems to be very formal yet slightly informal to
get their point across.
• This would appeal to the audience by giving
them a reliable review which is easy to
understand and gets the point across that it is a
good game and they would recommend playing
it
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=Ea8JtJlZ3Vc

3. Existing Products
Link to the podcast/documentary;
• This piece was made by IGN the YouTube rating
system for games.
• This is a game review for the Witcher 3
• The sound affects that were used from the gameplay
of the Witcher 3 and so was the music. They also
have the reviewer talking over everything except for
when he takes a break from speaking to split the
segments.
• The language used is in the middle between formal
and informal to create a good review and make it
interesting to viewers.
• This appeals to the audience by giving them a review
that they can trust which gives the audience a choice
of whether to play it or not to play it but in this case I
would say it is a good review so it would make people
want buy and play the product reviewed.
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=VpevTNRK-_M

4. Existing Products
Link to the podcast/documentary;
• This is yet another IGN YouTube review but for the
game Skyrim.
• This review uses gameplay as there background
noise and when they need to take a break from
speaking or split up the segments of the review they
bring the background noise and bring it to the front
so there is almost no white noise, and there is
obviously the reviewer talking over all this to talk
about the game.
• The reviewer decides to bring up the great design,
the reviewer also says it is one of the best
roleplaying games ever made, the conversations
have greatly improved however the animations for
the faces are still bad, it is also highly interesting and
has a beautiful soundtrack.
• This would appeal to the audience by giving them a
great and reliable review which is concise and to the
point which would make people want to buy and
play the game.
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=bH1GUi8rN
Qk

5. Research Analysis
• What common features do the researched
products have?
– The first three are all concise, reliable and to the point
reviews of games, all the reviews seem to also have
gameplay as background noise and also sometimes
have the soundtrack playing.
• What aspects of the research will you include
within your on work?
– Well I would like to use soundtracks of games or some
sort of nice music in the background and depending
on what topic I do it will depict the sort of music I will
either try to make or to find from other products.

6. Audience

7. Audience Profile
Category Demographic Content to appeal to this audience
Age Range
15-24 • Action
• Adventure
• Gothic
Gender
Men • Violence
• Action
• adventure
Psychographic
Socially conscious
type B
• Violence
• Death
• Hell
Social Status
Lower Middle
class
• Gives a sense of excitement
• Violence
• Action