Computer games Location is ...

With the proliferation of computer technology in our lives, it has become increasingly multitasking. One of the tasks of computers is entertainment. To this end, many special programs have been created, including computer games. Their main difference is genres, which can be considered quite a lot. Each of them has its own distinctive features.

There is a fairly large group of computer games in which the player controls a pre-designed or created by himself the character. Summarized, they can be called role-playing. Among them are genres such as RPG, MMORPG, quests, arcade and three-dimensional shooters, strategy and action. The main similarity of these genres is that each game has its own developed world, characters, story and plot. In the process of passing the player meets a lot of characters and visits various places. In the terminology of these genres you can find such a word as location. It plays a role in a lot of games, so it's worth explaining what it is.

Definition

The location is a separate part of the game world, which has its own features - buildings, NPCs, terrain and nature. It allows the player to perform certain actions that are carried out for the passage of the plot, as well as for the sake of entertainment. It can never be a separate or isolated (with rare exceptions secret or bonus), because the location is an integral part of the game world. Depending on the importance for the plot, the location may have such parts as cities, settlements, be a waterless desert or a dense and flowering forest. In a word, both the real world and the game world are diverse, and it is the locations that make a lot of variety.

Creating locations in the game

Since the location is a three-dimensional space that has to live a certain life and somehow react to the actions of the characters, a number of programs are used to create it. These are not only generators of textures and characters, they are also scripts, simulators of weather conditions, vital and natural processes and, of course, processes and operations whose task is to create interactivity and interaction.

Meaning and features

In this case, the game world itself can have a different number of locations. Their number depends on how much powerful equipment will be used to create the game, as well as from graphic requirements and the plot. Very indicative in this regard is one of the world's largest MMORPG - World of Warcraft, which has a large and developed world with 5 continents, each of which has up to 20 locations. This game runs perfectly even on weak computers.

In a slightly modified form, locations are also present in other games that do not have such an emphasis on a story or story. These are logical games, various strategies, casual and indie projects. In them, the location can be present in the form of a playing field, a background or a place where the actions are unfolding at the moment.

Games with beautiful and atmospheric locations

As a successful development by the creators of the game of locations, one can recall such a legendary game as STALKER Its world, based on the rethinking of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, strikes with its detailed elaboration and the familiar Soviet motives of life and life familiar to many adults. In the game "Stalker" locations not only demonstrate the style of the game itself, but also allow one to penetrate its essence and exciting plot, as well as the Soviet legacy that remained in Chernobyl. In addition, with good graphics and a variety of objects and design, they can claim very good reviews.

Another game, striking beauty and splendor of places, is Skyrim. As with the universe, which already has several parts, the branched mythology of the world and the plot oblige the places in which the actions of the saga unfold, be beautiful, reflect the color of one or another ethnic region and at the same time give the player the freedom to roam the world freely. I must say that in the game "Skyrim" the locations with this task are coping successfully, and in many ways that is why it leaves a pleasant impression.