Monday, February 25, 2008

second entry of my game

After watching my son playing the game for the past week, this week i had the chance to play the game. This game allows you to choose a wrestler of your preference. Before you choose the wrestler you are able to view what each wrestler does for the fight. It shows you a picture of the wrestler, their name, weight, height, career highlight and where the wrestler comes from. The wrestler looks exactly like they do in real life. For example tattoo looks identical, even their physical attributes like their beard, mustache, muscles and clothing and down to their championship belts that they usually wear. Another amazing thing about this game is that during the fight, the wrestler shed blood when they get hit with a chair. This type of event happens in real life, which i never thought I would be seeing in a video game. After you choose your wrestler of your preference there is a United States map with seven symbols each with a different meaning. The first symbol is a locker room which is a place where the wrestler finds out the ranking or status on the fights. There is also a calendar to save various type of fights that you are playing. There is also a cell phone to call and see what is available for the matches. There is also a massage room that is used when the wrestler's energy is low and you are able to get a massage after the fight to recover for the next fight. Another symbol in this map is smack down which is the place that you go in to fight. The is the raw symbol which is another place to fight. Revolution is the symbol for a place that you go and fight for the raw of championship belt. The fifth ECW which is a different company to fight from the above fighting places because there wrestler uses chairs while fighting and the last one is called ECW One Night Stand. the wrestlers fight for the ECW championship belt in this match. In this game, the player goes the map before entering the fight and choose from one of the above. All these symbols are semiotic domains because they have words, symbols and images as stated by James Paul Gee because their meaning aren't just a general meaning. They could mean many different things. After you choose a place from the map and a wrestler you are able to walk to the ring for your fight. While you are walking to the ring you see the audience jumping and yelling out wrestler name's. All i have to say is that this week i ha a great experience playing with my son and learning the game i even got a headache. I'm still learning the game which i think is kind of hard due to all the steps that has to be done in order to start to play. My son is teaching me which i think he is an expert because he knows all the steps, movements. I feel kind of strange because how come a 9 year old know and have a better concept on a video game of this type, which to me is kind of hard. I'm glad to have this type of experience learning through play. I am learning as a parent, teacher and as a student for this course. All i could tell you is that this game require a lot of energy because there is a lot of jumping, and moving the arms all the times. I would keep playing and learning in all aspects this game and on my next entry i would inform you more of this exciting video game.

1 comment:

DrDana said...

Thanks for explaining the game in such detail -- I was able to get a good sense of what the game is, how it works, and why. I also think you're right on track across your posts, in how you are connecting the readings (particularly the Gee book) with your own experience. Gaming provides such specialized scaffolding and individual attention that it works to support learning in powerful ways. And I can see why playing games is more interesting than listening to me lecture. : )