Video games have become a part of pop culture. With many titles gaining worldwide recognition and a rapid fanbase.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about famous video game series.
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X is an arcade flight video game
- It is developed by Ubisoft Bucharest
- It is published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and by Gameloft for BlackBerry PlayBook, iOS, Palm Pre, Android and Symbian^3
- It was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on March 3, 2009, for Windows on March 17, for iOS on December 9, for BlackBerry on January 8, 2010, for Palm Pre on April 2, for Android on September 13 and for Symbian on January 16, 2011
- A Wii version was announced, but was ultimately canceled
- In September 2010, a sequel titled Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
- The Microsoft Windows and Wii versions were released in November 2010
- In November 2018, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X was added to the Xbox One’s Backwards Compatibility list although only through physical media as it’s not available on the Xbox Marketplace
- The story of the game takes place during the time of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- H.A.W.X is set in the near future where private military companies have essentially replaced government-run military in many countries
- The player is placed in the shoes of David Crenshaw
- He is an elite ex-United States Air Force pilot who was recruited by one of these corporations, fighting whomever and whenever he is told to
- Crenshaw later returns to the Air Force together with his team, trying to prevent the PMC from initiating a full-scale attack on the United States
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six is a video game franchise
- It is published by Ubisoft
- The film is based on American author Tom Clancy’s 1998 novel, Rainbow Six
- The franchise and its games center around the fictional international counter-terrorist unit called “Rainbow”
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is a series of award-winning stealth Shooter games
- The first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels
- The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed “Third Echelon”
- The player controls Fisher to overcome his adversaries in levels (created using Unreal Engine and emphasising light and darkness as gameplay elements)
- All the console and PC games in the series were positively received, and the series is commercially successful
- The series, along with Assassin’s Creed, is considered to be one of Ubisoft’s flagship franchises
- The series has sold more than 31 million copies as of 2011
- Tomb Raider is a media franchise
- It is also known as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2008
- The series originated with an action-adventure video game series
- It is created by British gaming company Core Design
- Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, then by Square Enix after their acquisition of Eidos in 2009
- The franchise focuses on fictional British archaeologist Lara Croft, who travels around the world searching for lost artefacts and infiltrating dangerous tombs and ruins
- Gameplay generally focuses on exploration of environments, solving puzzles, navigating hostile environments filled with traps, and fighting enemies
- Additional media has been developed for the franchise in the form of film adaptations, comics and novels
- Development of Tomb Raider, the first video game, began in 1994
- It was released in October 1996
- Its critical and commercial success prompted Core Design to develop a new game annually for the next four years, which put a strain on staff
- The sixth game, The Angel of Darkness, faced difficulties during development and was considered a failure at release
- This prompted Eidos to switch development duties to Crystal Dynamics, which has been the series’ primary developer since
- Other developers have contributed to spin-off titles and ports of mainline entries
- Tomb Raider games have sold over 75 million copies worldwide
- The series has generally met with critical acclaim
- It is noted as one of the pioneers of the action-adventure genre
- Lara Croft has become one of the most recognisable video game protagonists
- Winning accolades and earning places on the Walk of Game and Guinness World Records
- Alongside being praised for pioneering female characters in video games, she has been the subject of controversy due to her sex appeal being used for marketing
- Uncharted is an action-adventure game series
- It is developed by Naughty Dog
- It is published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles
- The main series of games follows Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter who travels across the world to uncover various historical mysteries
- The main series began with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
- It was released on the PlayStation 3 in 2007
- It was followed by its sequels Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009), Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011)
- The final installment, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, released on the PlayStation 4 in 2016
- A prequel, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, was released for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld system in 2011
- It was followed by the card game spin-off Uncharted: Fight for Fortune in 2012
- A standalone game to the series, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, was released in 2017, with Chloe Frazer as the game’s playable protagonist
- The series has been universally acclaimed and commercially successful
- Having shipped more than 41 million units
- Making it one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time
- The main series has been widely credited by critics and video game publications for raising the standards of single-player video games
- Praising it for high production values, quality in storytelling, character design and animation, voice acting, realistic graphics, technical innovation, musical score, gameplay mechanics, and delivering an enjoyable cinematic gaming experience to players
- The series has often been likened to Hollywood-produced action adventure films
- According to former Naughty Dog developer, Lucas Pope, the franchise drew inspiration from the Gears of War series
- The first Uncharted game being delayed after the first Gears of War game released in order for various core gameplay and technical elements to more resemble and feel like that of the latter
- The critical and commercial success of the Uncharted games have been pivotal to the success of PlayStation during the seventh and eighth generation of video game consoles
- It has helped elevate Naughty Dog’s reputation to a highly respected video game developer in the industry
- Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media
- It is created by Blizzard Entertainment
- The series is made up of five core games: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone
- The first three of these core games are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy
- The fourth and best-selling title of the franchise is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)
- Players control their character and interact with each other in a virtual world
- The most recent title is Hearthstone, a digital collectible card game
- Warcraft is one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time
- Having grossed $11.2 billion in lifetime revenue, as of 2018
- Expansion sets were released for Warcraft II (Beyond the Dark Portal), Warcraft III (The Frozen Throne)
- Multiple expansions were released for World of Warcraft (The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, Legion, Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands)
- At BlizzCon 2018 on November 2, 2018, Blizzard announced a remaster of Warcraft III entitled Warcraft III: Reforged
- It featured remodeled characters and graphics with a prospective release in 2019
- The game was officially released on January 28, 2020
- All games in the series have been set in and around the world of Azeroth, a high fantasy setting
- Initially, the start of the series focused on the human nations that make up the Eastern Kingdoms, and the Orcish Horde, which arrived in Azeroth via a dark portal, beginning the great wars
- The Orcs came from another world, referred to as Draenor, the world that will be shattered into pieces by demonic magics during the events of Warcraft II, thereafter being known as Outland
- Later on in the series the world of Azeroth was expanded, revealing the new continents of Kalimdor, Northrend, Pandaria, Broken Isles, Kul Tiras, and Zandalar
- Thus, allowing the introduction of the Night Elves, Tauren, Pandaren, and other major races into the universe
- The world of Azeroth also contains the traditional fantasy setting races of elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, and trolls
- The series spawned several books and other media, covering a broad range of characters and timelines in the Warcraft universe
- A collectible card game was published, which offered those who bought booster packs a chance to gain access codes to limited in-game content in World of Warcraft
- Comics have been released alongside the books, further covering parts of the universe’s storyline
- A short-lived, online subscription only magazine was available but later ceased publication after five issues
- A film adaptation, Warcraft, was released in 2016
- The Witcher is a series of fantasy action role-playing games
- It is developed by CD Projekt Red
- It is published by CD Projekt
- It is based on the book series of the same name by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski
- The series began in 2007 with the release of The Witcher with the most recent being 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- As of 2020, the series has three main standalone games, two expansion packs and three spin-off games
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the most successful game in the series
- Selling over 28 million copies
- The series has been critically acclaimed and commercially successful
- It has sold over 50 million copies.
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