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Entertainment Game Review: The Witcher: Wild Hunt 3 The entertainment game that I chose to review was, //The Witcher: Wild Hunt 3//. In this game you play through an open type world that appears to be medieval. For the portion of this game that I have played through so far you travel this world via walking and horseback riding. In this game you come across battles with the dangerous wildlife while traveling around. In the amount of time I have been able to play, I have only been able to work through the first mission or so of this game. Here is a link to a video of my game play: [].media type="youtube" key="-nA5WpZ5gqI" width="560" height="315"

During this game I experienced some new learning and some things that I would consider to be similar to most games that I have played. I’ll start with my review of my experience of the things I found to be common between lots of games. First off, the controls to move the character around seemed to be very similar to my previous gaming experiences (COD, Halo, Far Cry3&4, Watchdogs, GTA, etc.). To walk around you would simply move the left joystick in the direction that you wanted to go. Similarly, to look around you would use the right joystick to move the screen and your vision around. Generally speaking, I would say that the basic controls of the player were so similar to my previous gaming experiences that I would not consider it to be a new learning experience.

Now on to the learning process I went through for unfamiliar controls. Since this game is a type of role playing game, I found myself unfamiliar with the process of having to choose different conversational pieces, that may affect how the game plays. I found myself being rather critical of my choices when playing this game for the first time. This game also offered an unfamiliar type of combat to me, involving using a type of magic or alchemy. For the purposes of this review I will call it magic. This was done through the use of a button on the controller. When the button was pressed it would slow down the game play considerably, to give time to choose the type of magic you would use.

When playing this game, I went rather slowly as to try to better see all that this game was teaching me and how it was teaching me. Towards the beginning of this game it had a short tutorial walk through that allowed me to quickly learn the controls of this game, like running, fighting, jumping, etc. I also had opportunities to practice fighting and using magic. During the action scenes I needed to learn skills of “combat” where I would need to battle my enemies to progress in the game. Since, I was only able to find a short amount of time to play this game, I am unsure if you could choose to run away from simple battles with the evil creatures. Later in my game play I found myself in a bar. During my time in there I needed to find out information about the location of someone I knew (in the game). During this process I needed to learn the skills of talking with the community members, some of whom looked down on Witcher’s.

Some of the teaching principles I found in this game were, active and critical learning by allowing the player to make decisions in the game. Semiotic domains, the game sets up a new world and way of thinking that allows the player to become a part of. Metalevel thinking about semiotic domains by playing the game the player has the ability to think of the semiotic domain of the game and compare it their own and other semiotic domains. Psychosocial moratorium, this game gives the player the ability to try out actions that they might not make in the real world. An example would be when communicating with other characters. Identity, by playing and controlling the identity of the main character. Achievement, throughout this game you are working towards multiple achievements. Like building your character and I believe (as I have just started) finding an old friend. Practice, during this game you are given ample time to practice the controls and other learning that you need. This is done by battling along the way and through basic game progress. Ongoing learning, I noticed that as I continue to play this game when things come up, like say riding a horse, you are prompted with the instructions on how to ride the horse in the game. Probing is present in all of the game play as players are able to try things out and then reflect on their actions. Multiple routes, are present in this game through the open world game play and the decisions that the player is able to make. Situated meaning, in this game is in the form of the player learning about the finer details or workings of the game. Like in this case how the player is able to use magic, which is not necessarily used in real life. Intuitive knowledge in the case of this game is when players learn things outside of the game, through forums and walkthroughs, and then act accordingly in the course of this game.

//The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt//, has multiple online sites and forums. One of which is the games official website, []. On this site people can find a multitude about this game from maps and storylines to merchandise. Among other sites include Wikipedia, where it gives a basic overview of the game. There are also sites that give walkthroughs for game advise. I also came across a Reddit page for this game that has about 3,000 subscribers and poses as an online community (affiliation group).

Overall, after playing this game for a little bit I was impressed with its content. It seemed to grab my attention and encouraged me to continue playing. However, on a side note, I’ve been way too busy to get back to playing this game yet, and my anticipation has been killing me. My opinion of this game is that it is a great entertainment game. It teaches you well while still leaving room for the player the work through things on their own. It was very enjoyable to play. I am still however, not completely sold on the role playing game genera, but that is my opinion and doesn’t reflect how well this game seems to play. If I were to rate this game from the role playing games I have played previously, I would say that it is right up there with a score of 10/10. However, in my opinion for enjoyment games I would probably rate it as a 7/10, given that I am not a huge fan of role playing games. Nonetheless, it still has been an enjoyable journey thus far!