User Interface (UI) plays a crucial role in the user-friendliness of a game. A good UI can lead to a streamlined experience for the players. However, on the other hand a distracting, poorly organized or cluttered UI can take away from the gaming experience and sometimes leave players irritated or even frustrated.
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NBA 2K13 – NBA 2K13 is a good example of how a UI menu can be poorly organized as well as distracting. It can be difficult at times to find things in the menu as there is a lot of text going on as well as the need to push several different buttons to navigate. The biggest downside of the menu is how distracting it can be. The menu features gold looking tabs and window and there are movies and visual effects constantly going on in the background. This can make it difficult at times to read the menu and figure out what is going on.
Battleborn
The cluttered UI in Battleborn distracts from the action. The amount of visual information available to the player is far too much to take in effectively, and therefore it's wasted and ineffectual.
