(Me Playing Carmageddon)Violence is the most entertaining thing people can come up with without breaking a sweat, to think of anything else to do in movies and video games. It seems to most people video games and violence go pretty well together, so people tend to become desensitized to it (like me) and then people add more violence to the games they create and then things start getting harder ratings by the ESRB. A simple racing game for the "Nintendo 64 (Carmageddon)" was given an "M" rating because the game featured people getting run over and a little bit of blood going on the car, by hitting pedestrians this increased the time for the player so they could drive around more. In Some countries like the UK and Germany only a more censored version with green blood and Zombies were allowed to be sold.
[Me Playing GTA 3]
"In Playstation2's" "GTA 3" you could car jack people, kill police officers, have sex with prostitutes, find secret packages of cocain/marijuana, assasinate certain targets to complete the game and take amphetamines to slow down the world around you. Nobody seemed to care about anything in the game except for Police Killing. People linked a sniper shooting to this game because of the cheat you could enter which when used could blow peoples limbs off with pretty much any weapon, so police bought and played this game to test their theories on this.
(Me Playing Manhunt)
For the "Microsoft Xbox" Manhunt was a very controversial game it featured brutal ways to kill/ assasinate people and featured the use of painkillers to heal the player.It had a kill cam which recorded the way you killed the main targets and was never censored, one scene you took a baseball bat to the guys head and kept on swinging until it almost came off. You could use anything as a weapon in this game from a screwdriver to nailguns to machete's to a 50 cal SMG...(This game is fun). There are 3 levels of brutality to the game 1 being the least gory and 3 is the most. you are encouraged to do the level 3 kills because it awards you mroe points/ cash for doing this. Level one would be suffocating some one while level 3 anything goes, from brutaly stabbing in the throat to complete and utter decapitation with a crowbar.( I will let you guys use your imaginations on the other ways to kill them as there arer to many ways to list)
(Screen Shot of Manhunt 2 For Wii from IGN.COM)
The Nintendo Wii has seen the release of the new Manhunt 2 game which has been censored a little more but there is a way around it (haven't figured it out yet). They removed some kills from the game(example of a painful one - ripping someones testicles out with pliers...Ouch). The game no longer has the extreme gore kill cam, instead it has a little bit more of a hazy filter on it. Since the Wii is Motion sensitive it encourages the use of actually making the motions with your hands (for example- slitting someone's throat or stabbing someone).
People like "Jack Thompson" think that these video games are what cause school shootings / violence in general. While these are fun to play I / anyone I know have never had the urge to go out and buy a gun or stab a person for the hell of it. The people who are mentally unstable and play theses games do the school shootings and stab people for no reason. Take a look at the Columbine school shooting...people blamed it on DOOM(From id software) well it couldn't obviously have anything to do with the fact that the kids parents owned guns and bought weapons illegaly now could it? Or the fact that they were bullied for god knows how long, or the music they listened to(MDFMK, Ramstein, Orbital & The Prodigy). For the Virgina Tech Shooting the people wanted to blame it on video games. The only game he had been proven to play was sonic the hedgehog. Now correct me if i'm wrong but isn't Sonic the least violent of all games? I mean you run around a course collecting rings and at the most hopping on enemies to turn them back to their original state(chicken,bird etc..) and you reach the end of a stage you have to defeat doctor eggman by jumping on his vehicle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold - Columbine Shooters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre - The Columbine Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre - The Viginia Tech Massacre
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gFVWWVSYm7o&NR=1- Link to the Columbine Movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29 Jack Thompson
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7912743/ - Positive efects of video games
Questions
1. Would Playing Violent video games make you want to kill / hurt someone?
2.Do you enjoy playing or watching people play these games?
3. What video games do you play?
Copyright of Rockstar North/ Rockstar in General (GTA 3 and MANHUNT 1&2), along with Nintendo, and SCi (for Carmaggedon), and IGN.COM for the Screen Shot of MANHUNT 2
Unreal Tournament is one of the most violent and pointless games out there but extremely fun.
