Game Analysis

Name of Designer: Insomniac games

Publisher: Sony

Title: Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction

Date: 2007

Genre: Action/Adventure/Platformer/Shooter

Audience: 7+

Formal elements

• ·        The buildings are parallel.
• ·        The main focal point is the immense building in the distance.
• ·        The golden statue in the middle of the image.
• ·        Arches, spheres, oblongs, triangles, cylinders and cones.
• ·        The lampposts are symmetrical but further out there is less symmetry.
• ·        The designer of the scene wants to draw the viewer’s eye from the walkway to the gold statue and up to the building in the distance.
• ·        There is more detail in the foreground but less in the background.
• ·        The buildings and trees limit the picture space.
• ·        The lighter colours in the background create distance.
• ·        Green, brown, blue, bronze and yellow are the main colours.
• ·        Warm colours are gold, bronze and yellow.
• ·        Cool colours are blue and green.
• ·        The range of colours is limited.
• ·        The colours create a vibrant, lively, exciting and busy effects.
• ·        The base of the image is shady while the rest of it is bright.
• ·        Sci-fi themes
• ·        Trees, lampposts and buildings convey realism.
• ·        The gold statue and the space ships provide surrealism.
• ·        The 1927 film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang.
• ·        Set in the future
• ·        Characters are not human
• ·        Content is an attack or war.
• ·        Racism
• ·        My reaction is that of awe and excitement.
• ·        The space ships, gold statue and architecture confirm my feelings.