When War Meets Video Games

Unsatisfied with society's view of amusement, people invent game consols such as Nintendo, Play station, X box, Dreamcast, etc. With these game consols, people ranging from children to adults are able to enjoy their time with video games to pass time. As the evolution of video games evolves in our environment, youths, especially children become clueless of the unknown struggles and hardships that third world countries may experience. Young males become attracted to such war games like Call of Duty, Day of Defeat, Brothers in Arms, Medal of Honour, Sum of all Fears, etc, because the nature of men are interested in violence. Men enjoy the emotion of superiority and feel the need to stay in charge. War games attract more men than women because some are too sensitive or feel that it is unnecessary to enjoy war in any form. War games are popular because the game world is at its highest and is profiting from the sales of different variety of games. About 1 out of 3 men in grade 10 attending Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School own a game consol. Violence is becoming popular between youths because it is becoming an issue in North America but are unaware of the true nature of the violence if the game was their actual life. They find it amusing to murder and kill characters off the video game. These reenactment in the video games started out as real war simulations for new recruits in the US. Now they are being used to amuse children and adults to enjoy killing. If it's not realistic they find it a waste of time. The more realistic it is, they find that they are in the actual war themselves. They go create strategies and follow through plans. Being realistic ensures that the game doesn't feel fake because males like to be in actual fights and shoot the enemy down. The only differences apart from real soldiers and people in front of the TV playing these games is that the soldiers are actually running, ducking, shooting real people instead of characters. They are also scared and worried while on the other side of the TV where the person holding the controller doesn't feel the pain of having a leg amputated or the restlessness from lack of sleep or the emotional damage of seeing your friend get bombed. The players also don't have to worry about their life lines. If they lose a life, they may have 2 or 3 left when real soldiers only get one chance to live and survive to get back home. Children can not understand the true fears of war and killing unless they actually experience it. If they enjoy killing characters and are proud of the number of characters they've killed, it truly says something about their personality. War games almost hypnotize you to enjoy the games. I myself have played a few and find the games rather amusing but I find the story lines and the true base of the game almost disgraceful. While we are enjoying murdering other soldier characters, the game could have been real at one point and time in someone else's life. I do think that they desensitizing people, I do believe that these games are corrupting the idea of war onto children from an early age to think war may be fun, and I do think that these war games are wrong. There's nothing wrong to have fun killing pretend mystical characters but I find it wrong when they are based on real people and turn the horrifying trip for others into amusement.