Lo2 Comparison of reviews

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.