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THE VIDEO GAME WEST – PT.2 (Week 13) VIDEO CLIPS: Students can view the embedded video or press “CTRL” and left-click on the provided link to view on the host website. NOTE: The document may need to be viewed in “enable editing” mode to view the clips. Note: After viewing a clip, students may need to manually use the mouse to move the document via the right-hand scrolling bar or re-click their mouse within the document. LESSON OBJECTIVES - Upon completion of this lesson, students should be able to relate examples of the Western genre within the medium of video games. INTRODUCTION Western novels, films and TV series, comic books/graphic novels would be joined by video games beginning in the 1980s as part of the overall Western genre. Click here for more on this paper.......
Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted..(Note: The following clips may contain mature themes and/or violence.) RED DEAD REDEMPTION (2010) The launch of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption in 2010 – for Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation3 platforms - may be the definitive Western to date for the video game generation. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Red_Dead_Redemption.jpg The central narrative is set in 1911 and has the player as John Marston, a previous outlaw who is forced by the federal government to track down his former gang. The government holds his wife and son until Marston does so.Click here for more on this paper.......
Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted.. This game is what is deemed “open world” or “sandbox” in that the player can simply ride off as he or she chooses to explore areas that completing sections of the narrative will open up. This was the first rural-based game for the makers of the urban Grand Theft Auto series and the varied landscape is indeed immersive. Regions parallel that of the American Great Plains, mountain areas and the Southwest – players will also enter Mexico itself. Additionally, there are a number of locations that draw upon sets from pre-existing Western films, including that of Italian filmmakers like Sergio Leone. Red Dead Redemption (2010) trailer:...
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THE VIDEO GAME WEST – PT.2
(Week 13)
Ø VIDEO CLIPS:Students can view the embedded video or press “CTRL”
and left-click on the provided link to view on the host website. NOTE: The document may need to
be viewed in “enable editing” mode to view the clips. Note: After viewing a clip, students may need to manually
use the mouse to move the document via the right-hand scrolling bar or re-click
their mouse within the document.
LESSON
OBJECTIVES
- Upon completion of this lesson, students should be able to relate
examples of the Western genre within the medium of video games.
INTRODUCTION
Western novels,
films and TV series, comic books/graphic novels would be joined by video games
beginning in the 1980s as part of the overall Western genre.
(Note: The following clips
may contain mature themes and/or violence.)
RED DEAD REDEMPTION (2010)
The launch of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption in 2010
– for Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation3 platforms - may be the definitive
Western to date for the video game generation.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Red_Dead_Redemption.jpg
The central narrative is set in 1911 and has
the player as John Marston, a previous outlaw who is forced by the federal
government to track down his former gang. The government holds his wife and son
until Marston does so.
This game is what is deemed “open world” or “sandbox” in that the
player can simply ride off as he or she chooses to explore areas that
completing sections of the narrative will open up.
This was the first rural-based game for the
makers of the urban Grand
Theft Auto series and the varied landscape is indeed
immersive. Regions parallel that of the American Great Plains, mountain areas
and the Southwest – players will also enter Mexico itself.
Additionally, there are a number of
locations that draw upon sets from pre-existing Western films, including that
of Italian filmmakers like Sergio Leone.
Red Dead
Redemption (2010) trailer:
This video game may in fact be the most
important work of the Western genre – be it film, fiction or art – in a
generation as it is now drawing a newer and younger audience to the genre.
This game is serving as both an enticement
toward and a framework for interpreting Westerns – that is significant.
http://livingwithanerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/red-dead-redemption-environment.jpg
There are a number of major ideas that serve as
ideological framework for a time period in which the “Old West” was fading –
these ideas include:
Ø
the encroachment of central
government and corporate industry into rural areas
Ø
Indigenous territorial rights
and the presumption that Christianity was necessary for the “betterment” of
Amerindian peoples
Ø
that both government and
revolution in the “name of the people” can be co-opted by those seeking
personal gain
Opening scene:
Within the single
player game, Marston can also choose to assist in side-missions to help
strangers and complete tasks not directly related to the main storyline such as
herb collecting, hunting animals and bounty hunting.
Living in the West:
The game uses an “honor” system whereby the moral choices players make
will attach either positive or negative honor.
The level of honor works in conjunction with a “fame” system – people
react to the fame level of the player/Marston.
The player can acquire a bandana to hide his face and prevent Marston’s
honor and fame from being affected by the chosen actions.
Life in
the West / “Honor”:
Red Dead
Redemption also gives players with Internet access the option
of online multiplayer play with other gamers.
Multiplayer trailer:
RED DEAD REDEMPTION AS VIDEO GAME GENRE
HYBRID
In
October of 2010, Rockstar Games launched the Undead Nightmare companion DLC (“downloadable content”) for Red Dead Redemption.
In
this companion to the Red Dead Redemption
storyline, John Marston searches for a cure to zombie plague that has spread
the American West and Mexico. This game represents a mixing of the Western and
zombie/horror/supernatural genres.
Undead
Nightmare (2010)trailer:
VIDEO GAME AS CINEMA
In support of the Rockstar Games launch of their 2010 video game, Red
Dead Redemption, feature film director John Hillcoat created a 30 minute
short film using content from the game.
Red Dead
Redemption: The Man from Blackwater (2010)premiered on television on May 29, 2010. Here
is the trailer:
Complete Short Film
Red Dead Redemption: The Man from
Blackwater (2010)
(warning-adult
themes & graphic images):
THE VOICE BEHIND THE MAN – ACTOR ROB
WIETHOFF
The
video game website Polygon showcased a 12-part series entitled Human Angle in 2013 - this series took a
look at the people behind a given video game. In its last episode (June 19th),
the series profiled actor Rob Wiethoff and his journey from small town Indiana
to becoming the voice of lead character John Marston in Red Dead Redemption (2010).
Following
the game’s release and subsequent success, Wiethoff returned with his family to
his hometown of Seymour, Indiana. Here is the Human Angle feature on Rob
Wiethoff, entitled Finding John Marston (2013):
SUMMARY
Western video games
are the most recent cultural expression of the Western genre.
Red Dead
Redemption (2010) - released for Xbox 360 and the Sony
PlayStation3 - is a Western “open world” or “sandbox” video game.
This
award-winning game draws on the Italian Western film tradition in a number of
aspects (art style / music).
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT#10
(FINAL JOURNAL)
Which of the content (text and/or video clips) in
the Week 13 lecture did you find the most interesting and/or surprising and
why?
What
topics/areas/issues not covered by this Westernscourse would you like to see
discussed? Why?
Entry to be 1 – 2 pages (250 to 300 words).
DUE: Week 14
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