The Video-Game Quiz

- Aveek Kumar Baruah

- Aman Khan

The first Assassin's Creed received plenty of praise, but it also spawned a very vocal fan base who let the world know what they felt was missing from the game. Most prominent being a task which any average person can do (that Ezio can!) but the Master Assassin Altair would die instantly on trying the same feat, which was considered contradictory to his image of a master assassin. The developers listened and this was later rectified in Assassin's Creed II. What is being talked about here?

Altair’s inability to swim!

The player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth. The main character is equipped with a rifle with an unlimited amount of ammunition. The player can also jump, move and fire in eight directions, as well as move or jump simultaneously while firing. A single hit from any enemy, bullet, or other hazard will instantly kill the player character and discard the current weapon. Identify the game.

CONTRA!

Two kids from England could never be the musicians they wanted to be, working up the ranks of record label BMG. But Sam & Dan Houser became much more than Rock Culture Icons, being the coding geeks they were, when their lives took a turn landing them in the video game industry. When their flagship game made the jump to 3D, defining what an open world could mean, they piggybacked off their love for New York City and its mix of cultures and musical styles to help guide everything from the soundtrack, to the writing and the storyline. Can you guess the name of their game company?

ROCKSTAR GAMES

Name the next in the series Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion,______?

SKYRIM

Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hephaestus, Ares, Athena, Hermes, and Hades. What is common amongst these 8 of 14 Olympians with relation to a game franchise?

ALL OF THEM WERE KILLED BY KRATOS IN THE ‘GOD OF WAR’ SERIES

Originally called Lawn of the Dead, a spoof on Dawn of the Dead. They had to change the name to X due to copyright. The game features a tower-defense model, where player is trying to defend his house from “intruders”. Identify X.

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES

The name of this game originated from the Japanese folk hero Paku, who was well known for having a large appetite. Originally the game was known by another name. The reason for the name change was because it was believed that when they imported the game to the United States that vandals would be likely to change the 'P' to an 'F,' forming a common expletive. Identify this very famous game…

PAC-MAN

X is a sociopathic Dominican drug dealer who becomes Tommy Vercetti's associate throughout the game GTA: Vice City, but later the secondary antagonist in the game. He's also very sensitive about his name, and will protest every time somebody makes fun of it. X betrays Tommy at the end of the game. Identify X.

LANCE VANCE DANCE

13. Mario’s first appearance in a game before his flagship “Super Mario Bros.” was in a game pre-dating it by 4 years. In this game, the titular character is pitted as an opponent against Mario. Identify the game.

DONKEY KONG

Part of the name is derived from a Greek numerical prefix, a reference to the fact that all of the game's pieces contain four segments each.Commonly appears at top of most “Best videogames” lists. It is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players etc.

TETRIS

This fictional city is loosely based around Los Angeles, where brands like Sprunk, Ammunation, Life Invader exist. Featured in Rockstar’s Latest (as well as the most iconic) entry. Name the City.

LOS SANTOS

While Sega was seeking a flagship series to compete with Nintendo's Mario series, along with a character to replace Alex Kidd as the company's mascot, several character designs were considered. Eventually, Naoto Ōshima's creation, initially codenamed "Mr. Needlemouse", was chosen as the new mascot. It's pigmentation was chosen to match Sega‘s logo, and his shoes were a concept evolved from a design inspired by Michael Jackson's boots. ID the character.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

17. Other than being very popular games, in what other way can we link them?

PRICE OF PERSIAMAX PAYNE

TOMB RAIDERHITMAN

THEY ARE ALL VIDEO-GAMES WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE INTO FEATURE FILMS!

The series XY follows the adventures of protagonist Y Stone and his fight against the forces of the notorious extraterrestrial overlord Mental who seeks to destroy humanity. The series consists of three games, titled XY: The First Encounter, XY: The Second Encounter, and the fan-made level-pack Dark Island. The combat is high-paced and frenetic: the levels typically consist of a series of elaborate arenas, in which the player will defeat a set number of re-spawning enemies before proceeding to the next. Enemies range from soldiers with rocket launchers to gigantic charging robots to shrieking suicide bombers without heads and holding bombs. The environments include alien planets, ancient Egyptian pyramids and tropical rainforests. Identify the game

SERIOUS SAM

The game features a nameless non-playable hunting dog that accompanies the player, who provokes and retrieves the fallen targets. The dog is infamous and iconic for his laugh and has been labelled as "one of the most annoying video game characters ever" by numerous gaming critics and journalists. Which game?

DUCK HUNT

Ray Liotta (of Goodfellas fame) voiced this iconic character. Incidentally, the character was also a gangster and is said to have many of traits and characteristics as the fictional movie character Tony Montana (from Scarface) with similar themes like his exile from his old home, his rise to power, acquiring property and wealth in the city, and a mansion which also sports an interior similar to that of Montana’s mansion. He is also a hired assassin, has killed his own collaborators, taken over his temporary boss’s business and rebelled against his former leader, as Tony Montana had. Who is being talked about?

TOMMY VERCETTI

In this classic game, players must take on the role of one of the brothers, Nick or Tom and battle with the evil King Scorch and his army of Ice Commandos. Players will need to make their way up the ledges to reach the top of each floor. After every ten floors there is a boss round. When an enemy is defeated, it may leave a special treat behind, which are in the form of a food item or hot sauce treats, which are actual power-ups, such as improving a character's running and jumping speed, powering up a character's shots, and speeding up those shots. Which game? 

SNOW BROTHERS

The game is presented in dark, greyscale graphics using lighting, film grain effects and minimal ambient sounds to create an eerie atmosphere often associated with the horror genre. The dark visuals also hide numerous environmental and physical hazards, such as lethal monsters hiding in the shadows. The primary character remains nameless, who awakens in the middle of a forest on the “edge of hell”. Identify the game.  

LIMBO

In the game “Disney’s X” , you begin by controlling the main character X in the Market Place where you'll run for your life from angry merchants, snakes and other enemies. A street urchin, X is  very agile and can run, duck, jump, swing (from beams), do somersaults, bounce and climb. Enemies are defeated by throwing apples or by jumping on them. The animation is modelled after the hit Disney movie X. Who is X?

DISNEY’S ALADDIN

Connect with relation to a game franchise.

THE CRUSADESRENAISSANCE

AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

TIMELINE OF ASSASSINS CREED I, II AND III

MINIMALISTIC

23.

ASSASSINS’ CREED

24.

BIOSHOCK INFINITE

25.

BATTLEFIELD 3

26.

FAR CRY 3

27.

GOD OF WAR

28.

HALF-LIFE

32.

STREET FIGHTER

30.

MASS EFFECT

29.

HITMAN

31.

PAC-MAN