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Protagonist: John “Soap” MacTavish 43624502292985Figure 1 1: For this task I researched a protagonist and an antagonist from separate games to create a fact file on each one and answered a series of questions. The protagonist I chose is soap from Modern Warfare 2 and my antagonist is Handsome Jack from the Borderlands games.Name: John “Soap” MacTavishVoiced by: Kevin McKidd Appearances: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare(2007), Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3(2011).What?What is he?John “soap” MacTavish is a playable, main protagonist in the Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Series. He appears in all the series as a playable character and NPC throughout the series. What is his purpose? In game and out.Soaps’ purpose in Modern warfare is to kill Imran Zakhaev, who is the supplier of nuclear weapons to Al-Assad. In the second instalment of the series, Modern Warfare 2, Soap is playable in the last three missions and his goal is to take down the antagonist General Sheppard, who double crossed the player earlier in the campaign. He is injured in the final fight and that sets the player up for Modern Warfare 3. In the last game of the series soap is an NPC which the player has to care for while being hunted by the Russian armies of Makarov, he later dies from his wounds from his encounter with general Sheppard. What is the inspiration?Soaps’ inspiration appears to have come from the movie Tears Of The Sun (2003) the main protagonist LT A.K Waters. What type of pro/antagonist?Soap is a protagonist in the Modern Warfare series as he is always trying to take out the antagonist.Who?Who created him?The games development company, Infinity Ward, created Soap when they started development of Modern Warfare.Who is he to the player?To the player Soap is at first a playable character in the first game of the series but his status changes throughout. In the second game of the series he switches to a NPC but then is playable for the last 3 missions of the game and then returns back to an NPC in the third game where his story sadly ends.Who does he interact with? For the first game when the player plays as soap, it teaches the player the basics of the game by running them through a kill house which is a training centre where the player learns to use the games controls and mechanics. Who does the voice?Kevin McKidd is the voice actor of Soap.Who is he to the player?To the player he is the main protagonist and an NPC.Where?Where do you first interact?You first interact in game with soap when you start playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, the player is playing as soap and hast complete a basic training course which teaches the player how to play the game. Where in the world is he placed?Soaps place in the game is as a playable character joining a new squad as part of the SAS, but then as the player progresses through the game the story starts to unfold and it continues in the second game when soap is an NPC and has been promoted to captain due to events in the first game. Soaps story then ends in the third game where he dies from injuries which occurred in Modern Warfare 2. Where does the game fit within the market?This game fits within the AAA first person shooter, action category. This is a big area of games and there are tonnes of companies producing first person shooters, but gamers seemed to really connect with the Modern Warfare series in particular.Where is the audience?The audience for these games is a large one, anyone with an interest in action packed shooters will have played Call Of Duty at some point in their gaming life. You have a wide range of ages who play these types of games even though it is marketed at M (18+) for every game in the Modern Warfare series.When?Modern Warfare released in 2007 along with other big games such as BioShock(2007), Halo 3 (2007) and Crysis (2007) so there wasn’t really much of a gap in the market but due to Call Of Duty Modern Warfare was a big hit selling 18,000,000 units. Modern Warfare 2 broke records by selling $550 million dollars’ worth of copies in its first five days of release, and it’s part of a handful of media that has reached $1billion. Modern Warfare 3 broke even more records by selling 6.5 million copies in the first 24 hours of the games release in North America and U.K, it neared half a billion in sales for day 1. Why?The modern Warfare series promotes games by releasing teaser trailers, in game footage videos and they do this to create a reaction within their audience to get them excited and drum up more sales. Evaluation: These tasks were fun to complete as I enjoyed looking deeper into the characters that I have played in games. It gave me a lot of insight into how much story can go into a character and taught me how to research and what questions to ask in order to find that information. CITATION gia17 \l 2057 (giantbomb, 2017)Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY common sense media, 2011. common sense media. [Online] Available at: [Accessed 19 September 2017].Gamasutra , 2010. Gamasutra. [Online] Available at: [Accessed 19 September 2017].giantbomb, 2017. giantbomb. 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