Comparison of
Reviews
Genre
The genres given from the IGN review is an adventure game,
that incorporates films. Whereas the empire review, barely specifies genre. As
the empire magazine is a film magazine so the in depth analysis isn’t as
detailed as the IGN review, as it is a game website, so will have a greater
perception of genres.
Target Audience
The Empire review has little experience in dealing with game
reviews so the target audience for this game is said to be children, however
the IGN review knows that most people who are Disney fans, or who like these
sorts of games will not mind the semantic field brought up around the game,
which is children an will realise the game is very entertaining for a larger
audience of most ages.
Characters
The IGN review makes a good case for the very well thought
out characters, as well as all their individual scenes and abilities, however
the Empire review, although talking about the use of characters and levels,
criticises the use of buying characters to access the content on the game.
Narrative
The IGN review goes into much more detail with its insight
into the narratives, having 2 hefty paragraphs to describe the setting and
goings on of each of the 3 narratives. The Empire review just does not do this.
Although talking about the 3 narratives, it does not go into much detail into
what you can expect from the storyline. As IGN is primarily a game magazine, it
is expected that they will go into more detail than Empire.
Gameplay
The depth of description of the IGN review is outstanding
for the gameplay, vividly setting the scene for all 3 stories in its few pages.
Empire also manage to give a fair description of the gameplay, although it is a
little lack lustre compared to the IGN one, however this can be forgiven, due
to it not being its specialty.
Platforms
Neither review talks about platforms a large amount, yet IGN
does manage to do a slight bit of comparison when referring to the Wii U
GamePad but does conclude it barely makes a difference. Empire display the
platforms that the game is available on but that is the extent of their
platform discussion.
To conclude, the IGN review has much more of a critical
analysis than the Empire one, and actually feels like a review, giving plus
points and minus points for the game. The Empire review rarely has a chance to
praise or criticise and feels more like an advert to me, or just a description
of what it is. All in all the IGN review is one that I would trust more, due to
its critical style.
