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Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Most genres such as Drama and Action show what people want to see in the story. For example, Drama shows a situation where it could be happened in real life while Action shows a lot of dynamic movement through the story. However, horror does not want to show what people want to see like other genres. Horror is a genre that shows the story that people do not expect to see and controls fear in a negative way. Horror has used a lot of same subjects such as psychopath murderers and mysterious monsters. However, because of the cliches that has been used a lot in the horror genre, people get bored with horror story in these days and the genre needs to be changed in different ways to make people feel terror. One of the new genre that came out from …show more content…
In 19th century, it was hard for women to publish novels by themselves because of the gender stereotype that men were better than women. For this reason, she had to publish the book with a fake man name. When people knew that she was a writer, people hated and gave harsh critics. Because of the society issue, Frankenstein was not popular until 20th century. Like Frankenstein other sci fi horror were not noticeable until Alien movie came out in …show more content…
Half Life is one of the important games that develops game industry because of the level design and the story. Most of first person shooting games have a simplistic storyline that players do not have to take care about. For example, the first person shooter game Doom in 1993 has a concept that a soldier kills a hundreds of aliens on the planet. However, it does not teach players about background and explanation that why aliens invade the planet. Also, Doom developers had no technology to create realistic environment and focused on more action instead of interactive story and horror atmosphere like Alien movie. However, in Half Life, story became one of the important elements of the first person shooting game. It is important since the story allows players to focus on the game and give realistic gaming experience. For instance, the game begins in the shuttle that explains what is the players job, where they are, and what do they need to do at the end of the station. These information guides players to the story easily and not to lose their goal. Also, the game uses real time interactive story that allows players to interact with non player character and events without cutscenes. It is important because cutscenes cut off players’ gaming experience easily by taking players control. At the end, Half Life influenced not only first person shooting games, but it also affects

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