Character Design

This character was designed not to be the normal stereotype of character which usually involves them being of a male gender, Samus Aran is in fact a woman but you don’t really find this out until the very end of the game as the visor she has on her helmet covers her face. In the game Metroid the character Samus Aran was designed to fight alien like species that are from other worlds than our own, also Samus Aran has a double or evil sort of twin which is called SA-X which is in fact an alien called a Metroid which only mimics the appearance of Samus. The personality of this character is much hidden as you cannot see her face through the visor, so her facial expressions are covered or hidden from view so you can never really tell how she is feeling in certain situations. During the game you can never really connect with this character on an emotional level purely because of the fact that she never really talk in the game, it’s more physical action then you can tell how she is feeling for example if she threw something then you might get the impression that she is angry. The way the character has been designed is because of the fact that the game is supposedly set in the future because of what her armour looks like with the huge shoulder pads and the energy cannon that is attached to her arm. This character is part of a unique group of character that has the lead role of the game being female rather than being a male character, evidence of this could be Lara Croft from Tomb Raider or even in moves, Alice from the Resident Evil series who are all female leading characters rather than men.

 

These characters I feel is quite stereotypical because normal in all zombie survivor games such as Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 there is always the same style of characters, they include someone who is usually quite wealthy or rich an example of this could be the character Nick from Left 4 Dead 2, then someone who is an elderly character, this could be Bill from the first Left 4 Dead game and then someone who is of a young age, this could be Zoey from Left 4 Dead. I can justify this because there is the same type of style for characters as in the film Dawn of the Dead where you can relate the rich character of Nick from Left 4 Dead 2 to the character Steve who play a person who is well off but also quite arrogant and then you can relate the character Coach from Left 4 Dead 2 to the character Kenneth who is one of the elderly characters but can also still put up a good fight if needs be.