EVIL WITHIN trailer analysis

Evil within Trailer Analysis

It’s a live action trailer with very minimal CGI editing in the actual video. The lighting is very dark and gloomy so that you can tell that it is a horror game, it has loud screeching sounds that are meant to shock the audience. Slow scary music at the beginning of the trailer then as the trailer shows the enemies it gets faster paced and more intense music. You can constantly see blood and it keeps showing tools and a guy making some things to try and defend himself against the creepy enemy that you see throughout.

The music creates tension throughout and makes the audience feel fear. This trailer clearly makes the genre of the game known.

You never get to see the facial expressions of the guy you see in the trailer just the back of his head and when he wears the box thing on his head.

When he cuts himself and you see the blood splatter on the woman’s face, this make you think that she is important in the story and then makes you want to find out what happened and whether she is that creature you see later on and therefore an integral part of this trailer. 

The guy in the trailer wars dark clothing and metal block helmet ad throughout you see him kitting out improving like hes getting ready for war or a battle or a fight. You can see tools as he's making things to help him protect himself which shows you that this game is going to be a game with blood and violence.

There are many different camera angles used, When it shows the hallways they use log shots to show the emptiness the bleakness and the degraded walls. The trailers pace begins to quicken after the camera zooms in on the metal door and the arm comes out of it . at that point the pace quickens featuring lots of close ups on the tools the creatures and the burning sunflower but also that women that i was previously on about.

 

Front cover analysis

The last of us 

•On the front cover there is the main two characters with weapons in there hands. The background is black and dark this creates the emotion of tension and also helps the audience establish what genre of game this is. 

Alien isolation

On this front cover there is a close up of someone who looks scared and they’re wearing a space suit and the background is dark with a ominous glow in the distance. 

outlast

•The front cover is also dark with a glow to it that allows you to see the disgusting creature which gives the audience a great idea on what this game will be like and the genre of the game.  

THE EVIL WITHIN

THE EVIL WITHIN, the image is disturbing, there is a screaming person that looks like a woman and they are in distress with blood on the face. IN THE TEXT FROM THE "T" DOWN IT LOOKS LIKE A SWORD/KNIFE GOING RIGHT THROUGH THE HEART OF THE TEXT HEADING TOWARDS THE EYES OF THE PERSON ON THE FRONT COVER. THIS TELLS THE AUDIENCE THAT THE GAME WILL BE BLOODY AND GORY AND THAT THE GENRE OF GAME IS HORROR..

Comparison of the covers 

 The first three front covers was on a black background with little light which shows the game will be a dark one with little light and the facial expressions on all shows the audience the game is a horror on the EVIL WITHIN, Alien isolation and The Last Of Us the facial expressions of the characters shows fear and sorrow but on the OUTLAST cover there is a creature that looks disgusting this tells the audience the game is horror. They all do this, the first three in similar ways but the EVIL WITHIN does it differently they use a light background which is not typical of horror games however this allows us to see the blood and the goriness of the front cover and see clearly the terror and agony in the characters face which very clearly shows that the genre of the game is horror.  

Outlast trailer analysis

The outlast game trailer starts of slow and with no pace behind it. The lighting is dark it features a little light from the cars headlights as he enters the asylum. Throughout the trailer it is dark and gloomy except from a short section where it shows a light room but lasts around a second and it returns to being dark.

The whole trailer is in first person and features lots of pans and tilts as it is in first person the trailer features a few mid shots but mainly stays at long shots.

There is no blood or gore to begin with but as the blood and gore and dead bodies start to appear the pace of the trailer quickens like the heartbeat of the character and the player , its like an adrenaline rush as the fear factor of the game shows through.  

The walls and rooms are degraded and wrecked to show the place is not a happy place to be and gives you a awful feeling that something is going to happen soon.  

Evil within game analysis

Evil within Analysis

·         Horror survival game

·         Created by Shinji Mikami (Also created resident evil)

·         Main character (Sebastian) 

·         Isolated and deserted environment

·         Characters companions

·         Character is on his own for most of the game

·         Tactical survival

·         Investigating mass murder

·         Hideous creatures among the dead

·         Learning when to fight and when to run are key aspects in order to survive the game

·         Psychological horror survival

Outlast game overview and analysis

Outlast

Outlast tells the story of a reporter who gets a tip from an anonymous informant that something fishy is going on at a mountain asylum. The reporter goes there to investigate, but when he arrives he realises that all hell has broken loose already. It’s probably a good idea to just leave, but it's already too late and he's trapped inside. The back story is drawn from the real MKUltra experiments conducted by the CIA in the 50s, 60s and 70s in the U.S. and Canada. Those experiments, which are still shrouded in secrecy and that some think continue to this day, dealt with drug use, torture and some form of mind control. It doesn't include an overt narrative. There are no cut scenes. Instead, the game’s entire story is told through the investigations of the main character as he runs for his life through the labyrinthine halls of the massive building, discovering paperwork, finding clues and occasionally talking to people. The entire journey is viewed through the lens of a handheld camcorder that can be switched to night vision mode. As you explore the confused interior of the bloody building, trying to survive and piece together what happened, he’s also constantly looking for spare AA batteries to keep the camera's night vision powered.

·         outlast is a Survival horror game

·         Developed and Published by Red Barrels

·         Written by J.T.Perry 

·         Protagonist alone

·         Protagonist is an investigative journalist

·         Set in Mount Massive asylum

·         The patients now roam free

·         They are known as variants

·         Main villain believes he is a priest and believes he was sent by god

·         You have to find a way out of the asylum  

Your character has no fighting skills and cannot confront the hostile variants you can only hide and hope that you can get out and not be detected.

You have to slowly get through and hide from the variant in lockers, under beds and tables.   

 There is no online on this game.