New Media

This lecture was our first with Bill, and revolved around the idea of new media such as video games and modern films, and how new media forms are influenced by older media forms.

The lecture made me think about Modern Warfare 2 again. As the technology and graphical capability of video game engines has increased, their ability to have epic, cinematic storylines has increased. MW2 took this to whole new level in 2009, with a cinematic campaign with influences from great movies like Red Dawn and war films like Black Hawk Down and The Hurt Locker. I realised that as we seen this type of thing in more and more newer games, its easy to see how the films of the past are directly influencing the direction that new media such as video games are heading towards.