Assassins Creed

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: Third person Action-Adventure
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Microsoft Windows
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The player plays as a guy named Desmond who used to be an assassin. He gets put into a machine called the Animus and then the player is playing the character named Altair who is a member of a creed of assassins who fight for the good of humanity.

Story:
Desmond is captured by a company called Abstergo and is put into an Animus daily to go back into his memories and try to find out where his ancestors hid an ancient artifact. When he goes into the Animus he becomes an ancestor named Altair, he is a member of a creed of assassins but he kills an innocent person and gets demoted back to a starting assassin to learn from his mistakes. His master has him kill a bunch of important but evil people in different cities to slowly regain his abilities. After he kills all of the evil people he is assigned to kill he then has to kill his master because he betrays Altair. After the player kills the master he then has to hide the artifact so no one can abuse its power.

Resources:
The resources that the player has to watch is their health until they get kicked out of the Animus and how many throwing knives they have left to use.

Challenge:
The player has to kill certain people who are guarded by lots of guards and once the assigned person is killed the player has to kill all of the guards that attack them.

Stranglehold

Publisher: Midway, Success
Developer: Midway Chicago, Tiger Hill Entertainment
Genre: Third person shooter, Action
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The player gets to play as inspector "Tequila" Yuen. He is a cop who is fed up with all off the killings and gang violence so he decides to take matters into his own hands. He has the ability to slow down everything he sees so the player can plan out what they want to do.

Story:
Tequila has gotten fed up with all of the bad people in the area and that the police are barely doing anything about it. Since the cops wont do anything about it he has decides to take care of it himself. He uses his connections to find out information about the bosses of all of the gangs and drug producers and takes them all out one by one. While he is doing this one of the leaders takes his wife Billie hostage. Tequila does everything he can to get her back and succeeds. He find out that his old partner Jerry was behind that and hunts him down and kills him. After Jerry was apprehended Chief Lee returns Tequila's badge to him which was earlier confiscated.

Resources:
The resources in this game that the player has to watch out for is their ammunition and their health so they dont die or run out of ammo.

Challenge:

The farther the player gets in the game the harder the enemies get. They start to get more powerful guns and can take more damage to that the game is getting more difficult but at the same time the player is getting better

Mirrors Edge

Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Digital illusions CE
Genre: First person, Action Adventure
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3
ERSB Rating: T for Teen

Character:
The player plays the game as the character Faith. She is a member of the "runners," her and a few other people that are in the group are experts at parkour. They use their skills to transport messages around the city because the government took away all secure communication and they need some way to be able to transport information.

Story:
Faith is transporting a message to one of her partners Celeste and then she returns to their home. She is listening to the police radio and hears that her sister Kate is being arrested for murder. Since she hears this she goes over to Kate as fast as she can. When she gets there Kate explains herself to Faith and how this happened. She was framed. After Kate explains police are about to be there, Faith leaves so she can find out evidence that Kate didn't kill anyone. She hears about an ex runner named Jacknife who gave her information about the murder and who she could talk to to find more things about it. He gave her the name of the person who was murdered's head of security who is Ropeburn. Faith find him and gets information about Kate being framed then he was shot by a sniper that was on another building. She eventually finds out that the person who shot Ropeburn and framed Kate for the murder was Celeste. She tried to explain to Faith that she switched sides because she was tired of being chased by the police all the time, but she escaped from Faith because police came. Merc told Faith about where Kate is being held and that she is at gunpoint. Faith makes her way to the roof where Jacknife has a gun to Kates head and gets on a helicopter. Faith runs towards the helicopter as it takes off and she jumps onto it. When she did this the helicopter got out of control and Jacknife falls out of it. Kate almost fell out but Faith grabs her and stops her from falling.

Resources:
The only resources in the game are the characters health which is not shown but when damage is taken the screen starts to turn red. The other resource is ammunition when she picks up enemies guns.

Challenge:
The game makes the player think in a different way. Since the character is skilled at parkour the player has to think of ways to climb and jump to get to their destination. although this makes it a little more difficult it also allows the player to do things that the player cant do in many other games.