Video Game Analysis

Reference: Tomb Raider "Survival" Concept Art

Recording The Details

Name of the design team:

Square Enix

Name of Publisher: 

Square Enix

Date it was made or Published:

C. 2011-2012

Title of work:

"Survivor" Box Art/Cover Render (TRC) Concept Art

Genre:

Action Adventure, Platform.
But from the image (if I had never heard of the franchise) I'd say it looks like an Action, survival,due to the gloomy(ness) of the image I'd say it looks like it has a hint of horror.

Target Audience:

People that are a fan of the "Lara Croft, Tomb Raider" franchise, Investors, gamers that don't stick to just one prefer genre of games to play, Game Art collectors.

Formal Elements:

Composition


Main Organisational Features:

The main figure (Lara Croft) appears to be dominating the centre of the image. She is what draws the eye to the image due to an extremely faint warm orange light causing her to stand out from the bleak cold filter of the cave. The mouth of the cave also shows a destroyed ship and from what it looks like, a World War 2 Bomber plane, the image also shows extremely harsh waves bashing up against it.

Focal Points:

Once again the main feature is Lara Croft standing in the mouth of a cold wet cave, dominating the image completely with extreme detail, for example the blood trailing down the side of her arm where she's been damaged by something which is causing her to keep a tight grip of the wounded area, Or the water drops covering her handgun holster on the right of her body, or her bow's tribal like detail, where you can even see the grain of the wood if you zoom in far enough or even Lara's shoe laces, you can see the fine detail of the lace intertwining with itself for the design of the shoe/boot.

Otherwise the Focal Points of the area surrounding Lara such as e.g. The cave, The attention to detail of the Water, or the Derelict/Destroyed ship in the background, or even the (what seems to be) World War 2 Bomber Plane....

(With further research i found out this is actually a Japanese Kawasaki Fighter Plane Type 99)

... that seems of have crashed and been washed up. and with even more analysis, I saw what appears to be a sixteenth century warship, or more commonly seen as a typical "Pirate ship" The image below shows my finds: