The document provides research on three video games: Dragon Age, Age of Empires II, and Dante's Inferno. For each game, it describes the title, publisher, system, genre, release date, graphical style, and includes an evaluation, collage, and review section. The evaluations describe how the graphical styles support each game's genre. The collages and reviews explain how aspects of the games could inform the design of the student's own cel-shaded game.

1. Unit 1: Assignment 3
Game Research

2. Game Research #1
Game title Dragon age
Publisher Electronic Arts
System PlayStation 3
Pc
Xbox 360
Genre Role-playing video game
Release date November 3, 2009
Graphical Style Photorealistic/exagerrated

3. Game Research: Evaluation #1
• Dragon Age is a high fantasy role-playing video game
series created by Bio Ware. The graphical style is
photorealistic/exaggerated this supports the genre
because it brings the monster world to life and kind
of make the monsters look very realistic.
• The reason for making the game a photorealistic/
exaggerated is game is because it helps makes the
game more real and makes the players feel as if they
are in the game.

4. Game Research: Collage #1
This can help me make my sketches look more dark and
terrifying. The game setting is dark and terrifying which is
similar to what I want to do for my game.

5. Game Research: Review #1
The environment of the game is similar to the
way I would want my environment as it very
dark and gloomy. This will help me make a good
environment as it gives me a lot of ideas for my
sketches.

6. Game title Age of empire 2
Publisher Microsoft (Win, Mac)
Konami (PS2)
System Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 2
Genre Real-time strategy
Release date PC, Mac OS
September 30, 1999
PlayStation 2
November 2, 2001
Steam (HD Edition)
April 9, 2013
Graphical Style Cel-shaded

7. Game Research: Evaluation #2
• Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-
time strategy (RTS) video game developed by
Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft.
• The game compliments the art style to the
genre as its keeps the graphics simple but
representative. So that you can recreate in
medieval setting with relative ease.

8. Game Research: Collage #2
This game will help me have an idea on how
I would want my cel-shaded game to be like.

9. Game Research: Review #2
I want my game to be cel-shaded so therefore
this gives me an idea of how I can create a cel-
shaded game. It’s very easy to render and it is a
very simple game, which helps with the
audience I'm targeting it at.

10. Game Research #3
Game title Dante inferno
Publisher Electronic Arts
System PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation
Portable, Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3
Genre Hack and slash, action-adventure
Release date February 5, 2010
Graphical Style Photorealistic/abstract and exaggerated

11. Game Research: Evaluation #3
• Dante's Inferno is a 2010 action-adventure
video game developed by Visceral Games and
published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360
and PlayStation 3 consoles.
• The game compliments the art style to the
genre as the graphic help set the dark tone as
its about the underworld and the demon also
the character art work uses medieval themes
which compliments the art style.

12. Game Research: Collage #3
This is also similar to how I want my game to be like it
has the dark and hard core look about it that I want in
my cel-shaded game.

13. Game Research: Review #3
The character of the game is similar to the type
of character I'm creating as these character in
the game are strong looking, and show that they
are ready to fight. This helps me make my
character easily.