ReMission

=ReMission=

= Innovative Solutions: Re-Mission™ = = = Re-Mission is a video game for adolescents and young adults. In Re-Mission, players pilot a nanobot named Roxxi as she travels through the bodies of fictional cancer patients destroying cancer cells, battling bacterial infections, and managing side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment. The pace of the game is slow for first time users such as myself. You definitely need the book to get through the game. The game had a great deal of terminology dealing with different types of cells and their effect on the body. Rewards are given in the form of weapons that aid the player in the fight against cancer. The objectives of the game are very clear: fight the cancer cells and your patient will live. The game relies on a great deal of vocabulary dealing with the identification of cell types. The game involved a great deal of rote learning. The player has to memorize the different types of weapons to use and kill the right cells and bacterial infections. Once the game is better understood the player can go through a series of missions, which can help them build their skills and at the same time reinforcing their prior knowledge. The game probably needs a lot of classroom introduction to be played. It could become boring and tedious if not properly done in small groups or with the teacher looking on. Over all, the game was fun to play and keeps the learner challenged. A lot of prior background knowledge is needed and it has four disks that come with it. The HOPELAB web site is very helpful. The game is a great way to learn some basic cell biology.


====Click here to get a demo of the game. The demo is much more descriptive and does a better job of demonstrating aspics of the game that I could have not yet gotten to. ====