1. With hard hitting action, remarkable
characters and a striking setting. BioShock
Infinite took the media by storm hitting both
the storyline and gameplay on the head. This
detailed review done by ‘Elliot’s Reviews’ gives you a great understanding into
the important and gripping aspects of the game without giving you too much
information or spoilers. Elliot is new on the scene with this being his first
review but that doesn’t stop him from being up with other competitors such as
The Angry Joe Show. He has a great first grasp on the concept of reviews but
does lack in quality, particularly audio. When the review first begins, it opens
up into a peaceful elevator scene, giving you some story and quotes from the
game. Once Elliot begins the mic is much distorted and if you’re a headphone
user, probably bringing you a headache! After the first clip this is fixed, but this
should be something he looked back on. I can’t fault his use of gameplay
footage as it is always a perfect example of what he is talking about. He does
however not talk about quite a few things such as ‘Firemen’, all of the
weapons, all the vigors and characters such as Yin.
Release Date of BioShock Infinite: March 26, 2013

2. Though you didn’t feel as though his review was lacking. From playing the
game you can pick up on these things that members of the audience which
haven’t played the game would have missed but maybe want to know about.
He does a very good job at cutting through different aspects of the game, so
the script is very thought out and a lot of planning has been involved. He loses
points against competitors such as The Angry Joe Show with his quality in
audio, video and also humour value, but this is personal opinion. You may want
a more straight forward review, getting to the point, which is what this will be.
Video games review are different than reviews about music albums because
they include more information about how it will play out and if you will enjoy
it. An album is all personal preference as to if you will enjoy it or not, no one
has the exact same music taste. I enjoy listening to metal, but on days can find
myself listening to drum and bass. People have their preferences on video
games genres too, but everyone knows if it’s a bad game. When reviewing an
album you will look into it in depth, such as the lyrics, artwork, how it all
connects together, what the band did for inspiration. With a video game
review on such a big game such as BioShock by such a big company as 2K
Games, they’re such a big team it is not so much on a personal level what is
put into the game, but again, you can find yourself connecting with characters
that other people won’t. The audience can completely disagree with both
music and video game reviews so Elliot has tried to be very un-biased in the
review, he has his personal opinion thrown in but mostly just gives facts of the
game that you can’t disagree with. With some albums having parental advisory
stickers on the front meaning that the album contains hurtful language
Bioshock is age rated 18 for its
violence and language. This may
discourage some parents from
buying the CD/Game for their
children but that’s down to what
they think and that is why these
reviews are good is because it lets
the parents know what their child
will expect.
The genre of his audience would
typically be ‘Gamers’ though it
wouldn’t be a surprise for people
of all ages who have been looking

3. forward to this particular game to watch this for information. Gamers would
like to know what they will be spending their money on, but also if they’re
anything like me they want to know about the game, something like this brings
excitement! You can imagine yourself playing it, the game hitting the emotions
it intends which Elliot does well with his choice of music at the beginning.
When it comes to new games coming out, and if it was one I was dying for any
information I could find, I would endlessly hunt the internet. Sites such as
Reddit will have information, leaked data, images and videos that have been
found online but maybe not meant to have seen yet, this is where I would
source information. Having a source such as Elliot’s reviews, gamers don’t have
to crawl through the internet’s endless pages of mostly rubbish, to find half-
truths. He brings the information to his genre of audience. But as I said, he isn’t
reaching out to only Gamers, if this was a gamer such as FIFA 13 some sportier
people will have their console just for their yearly release. And so will get
excited, but if they saw information on a small indie game such as Fez, they
would think nothing of it. Elliot caters well to his audience genre but doesn’t
forget that there can be other people or genres tuning in, which is very
important when becoming popular.
Elliot knows his audience, but speaks to all. Bioshock is age rating 18 + which
means his video would have to suit this. He talks about the racism, and the
violence, giving parents the reason why it is of this rating and it becomes fairly
obvious why when Booker Dewitt begins fighting. There is no swearing
throughout showing that he doesn’t want to put people off him with
unnecessary language or behaviour but in a video game review I don’t think
why you may need to swear. A competitor called Angry Joe uses swearing a lot
when he is angry about aspects of the game, he also goes on a lot of rants
(hence his name) which parents and older members may find offensive. Video
game review audiences can vary on the game. A review for animal crossing will
have parents and younger kids interested as it is a family game, BUT you see a
lot of older people playing it because it’s a ton of fun. They will aim the review
at younger kids though. Age is only relative to the game rating because anyone
of any age can enjoy any game, it is all a matter of opinion. This is the same for
gender. You find a major issue at the moment is games getting a lot of stick for
being sexist. Sexualising women in games such as Tomb Raider and Saints Row
maybe a weird turn on for men, but a complete turn off for women! You don’t
find it happening the other way round such as men being hunky and stripping
off. Game developers need to realise that women take up nearly 50% of the

4. gaming community, and they should have a say too. Most games feel they
need to when it comes to women in video games because it will bring in more
of an audience. Bioshock doesn’t do this, Elizabeth is in old vintage clothing,
and they still manage to make her a beautiful character, and bring in a massive
audience and make it one of the biggest games of 2013. Gender profiling is
wrong, and something that shouldn’t be in modern day video games. Elliot fits
in with the genre of video game reviews because he has the information, he
has the footage and he has the confidence to tell you about the good and the
bad parts of the game. He doesn’t cut corners to make out the game is
perfectbut says why he thinks the bad aspects of the game should be fixed. He
includes everything that I’ve seen other video game reviews do, but also gives
it his rating which is different, but works really well.
I believe if you’re thinking of picking up BioShock: Infinite you should watch
this review by ‘Elliot’s Reviews’ first as it gives you great, non-biased
argumentabout different aspects of the newly released game.