Critical Video Game Review: iCivics Games (write/complete w/ your partner or alone)
Audience: You are writing for a 21st Century Teaching Magazine for teachers. One page per review: Include the following in some detail.
A review should have something significant to say about a game so that it doesn't end up being a list of "what's in the box." By zooming in and being specific, the reviewer should reveal something special about the game. Avoid spoilers if possible!!
1. Introduction: “Game Grabber”—can be positive or negative depending upon your overall opinion
2. Game Description: General, players, goals/objectives, challenges, scoring
3. Curriculum Relevance: How does the game tie into key educational ideas you have already studies?
Educational Content: List 3-5 important ideas, facts, or issues which you learned more about; What were they? What were some details?
4. Experience: describe how you experienced the game; what interactions did you like the most? What there tension, pressure, or drama?
Pacing: pacing includes everything from the incorporation of new game ideas/mechanics to game difficulty
story: Visual metaphors, mechanical metaphors, plot lines, , themes, characters, scene construction, overall structure, etc.
5. Conclusion for Educational Use: How is this an effective teaching tool? What parts are not effective? How should a teacher use this activity in the classroom? Or not!
Rate this Game: Create a 5 star rating system for educational games and apply it to this game.
1 star= 2= 3= 4= 5=
Conclusion: To Buy or Not To Buy….What is the reason why?!!
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