Thursday, December 14, 2006

Game of violence...


Ready for the ol' ultra-violence?

Throughout cases of shooting in the schools in the U.S, people believed that media violence is one of the main cause. And in one of these media there are video games. Some video games, either it was designed for PC or Consoles believed to be graphic enough that it could trigger violence in children's mind...and even also adult's.

So, have you try one of those games? I did...and let me share it with you.


  1. Doom. This is said to be the mother of the most famous school shooting in Columbine, U.S. a couple years ago. It could be the first FPS (First Person Shooter) game that made for PC, features the hero strolling around halls full of hostile humans and creatures, solving problems in each level by shooting at 'em with bigger and bigger guns. Blood and body part obviously flying everywhere in a most inartistic way (it is an under-Dos game...). This game was the mother of all future FPS games later on, including Duke Nukem, Halflife, Quake, and much more, including the more sophisticated remakes and sequels for those games. the main feature is: guns, bloods, and body parts. I never finished this game, skipping it into its apprentice...Duke Nukem.

  2. Duke Nukem. This game obviously an upgraded version of Doom, now besides featuring blood, guns and body parts it's also features sexy babes...yeah!...now we can see our hero shotgunning every evil aliens that kidnapped "earth babes". Optionally we could also shoot this captured naked women and turn them into a splatter of body parts to end their suffering after being molested by the ugly aliens. For you gore lovers out there, Duke Nukem also feature sliding doors and big machinery that could squeeze your enemy into a pool of blood and...of course body-parts. I triumphantly finished this game, victorious and bloody excited... shooting my way stages after stages when i was 16 years old...i did it while flirting around by the phone with my first girlfriend.

  3. Postal 2. Originally, Postal was inspired by an incident in the U.S when a post service officer went mad because of stress and start shooting at people with a big guns. The term "gone postal" since then has become a common expression to describe when suddenly a man goes completely mad. After series of controversies, Postal make its way as one of the 'sick games' category. I don't know what is happening in first game, I did played the sequel that eventually make me kinda sick...but I finished anyway. The game features one dude in a normal life, try to do his daily chores day after day in a week. His main missions were quite common: pay dues, buy milk, go to the party, pick up package, go the office...but in his way for doing that he cannot avoid his miserable fate: to start shooting people!!!...optionally, you could shoot anybody you see in this game and still make your way finishing the game. For variations, several feature also available, you could unzipped your pants and start peeing people, chop of somebody's head with a shovel, pour gasoline on people and burnt them...and much more. Graphically you could see burnt bodies, faeces in an unflushed toilet, headless corps, vomit, reddish pee because of gonnorhea, and of course blood. The worst thing about this game is that it didn't based in 'heroes and villains' storyline, it is just a story of a man who got a very shitty day and cannot avoid killing people in his way to finish his things.

Those are only a few of couple disturbing games that I have been consumed...if you ask me for what? merely for entertainment I think. As long as I keep the gore and violence in the PC-Games and never intend to visualize it into my daily life, nobody could question my sanity for mastering those games. Labelling this game for mature consumers only is the first thing that we should do, obviously even the most mild action feature could trigger blood-thirst in a mind of a child. Violence done by or did to children is completely wrong in anyway, and protecting them from these type of entertainment probably is the most wise thing we could do.

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