Exaggeration
Exaggeration in video games basically means that everything is completely over the top, In other words is very crazy and big. For example In Gears of war, the characters have extremely exaggerated armor which is huge and they have small bodies. Also there muscles are completely over exaggerated with huge muscles and arms the size of my body. For me this is very imaginative and looks quite good.
There are a lot of games that can be used as examples. Street fighter is definetly one as all of the characters have massive and over exaggerated bodies as well as Halo in which has over exaggerated jumping and weapons like the gravity hammer.
Manga
Manga became very popular in the 20th century when laws prohibiting the publication of those kinds of items were lifted. It has since become a huge part of Japanese culture. Unlike in America, Manga is read by most people in the country. Manga is basically cartoons which are Japanese and have there own distinct style to it. You can tell when something is manga in characters because Manga focuses a lot on eyes making them very big. Manga is a cartoon style in which looks very nice and bright. An example of manga in games is the popular Naruto series. Naruto is a comic book in which has manga style involved however they have made games for the xbox360 which looks stunning.
Black and white
Black and white style is mainly used in games which have an old setting such as the world wars and old times. Some games may use the black and white to give it a sad and tense atmosphere. an example of a game which uses this style is the graveyard. This game is not a scary game and consist of an old woman walking through a graveyard in black and white. so this gives it a tense and scary atmosphere because of the fact it looks sinister in a way.
Cel-shading
Cel- shading is a style designed to make computer graphics appear to be hand-drawn. Cel shading is often used to mimic the style of a comic book or cartoon. This normally consists of using thick black lines as outlines on characters and objects in which look finelined but are not. Cel- shading is a very unique and nice looking style which normally uses very bright colours but looks rough in certain games.
Games that use Cel-shading
Steampunk
Steampunks style mainly looks at steam powered machinery. Also this style looks at old metals such as bronze and also nuts and bolts.The style is set in Victorian times and gives a old fashioned theme in the games that use Steampunk. The game Half-Life uses this style and focuses a lot on old fashioned machinery and metal and the art design is terrific. Another game which is quite new to the world is Dishonored which is highly Steampunk related with the characters mask using old metals and also a lot of the weapons and scenery is using bronze and bolts and also dark colours.Gothic
Gothics style uses very dark colours and focuses on Buildings and architecture as well as statues and sculptures. Gothics theme to me looks very sad and depressing, also quite a scary look because of the darkness. some examples of games are Alice in wonderland as it gives off a dark and scary theme which to me follows the Gothics style, also they use luminous colours in dark areas to me looks creepy yet brilliant.
Pixel
Pixel art is based on little squares which are coloured in to make a shape. Back in the 1960's and when the retro games where out (arcade games) This was almost the only form of video game art at the time and looks very old fashioned. However nowadays this retro look has began to come back slowly. With games such as Minecraft using this style to which is a world based on pixelated cubes and characters. The game uses very bright colours in which gives a very retro look but at the same time looks very modern. Minecraft is not the only game that does this as Mario and pokemon use to use this style with no colour at all. this really gave a old look at the game. In my opinion this art style is brilliant as millions of people love this too.
Cyberpunk is a genre that could be attached to alternatively the Science Fiction side of fiction or the horror side of fiction. cyberpunk uses dark colours in which focuses on the future. that could be computers or anything electrical, It also makes the game and theme very dark and scary as well as bringing in bright colours in a dark place. To me it reminds me a bit like Gothic however as I said it looks on the future. A game in which uses this style is Deus Ex Human Revolution The game uses dark colours in which makes the character look evil.
