Games Britannia Part 3

In this final episode of Games Britannia he talks about games consoles that advanced the development of today's games. In the 70's video games became more and more popular and by the 80's houses had a games console in their living room.

He began talking about the early consoles such as the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. He mentioned one game in particular which was "Elite" a spaceship combat/trading simulator. You could buy and trade resources which could either make the game harder or easier for the player. It then spawned sequels later on in 1993 with Frontier: Elite II an in 1995 with Frontier: First Encounters. A third sequel was then crowd funded in 2012 and was released in 2014 via beta testing.

Grand Theft Auto was another game he spoke about and it too was an immensely popular game that came along. It was a open world game that had a long and eventful story line but also allowed you to free roam whenever you want and do whatever you wanted. You can steal cars, gain a wanted status from the police and lead them on a wild chase around the city.

He ended the show by talking about MMO's and what they have to offer. People taking control of avatars in a vast open world with hundreds of thousands, or millions, in the case of World of Warcraft which has had a steady population of the years and still continues to do so today.