Saturday, July 18, 2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
In my foundations of media studies course, we watched a film about how MPAA rates movies. In that they also discussed violent movies. But our class had a discussion on the impact of violence on children. And now they are coming out with a new Call of Duty game. But that isn't the part I'm concerned about. They are also going to have goggles(night vision) that you use as you play. They are really trying to make a war game as realistic as possible. What is really scary is that even though this game isn't for younger children. There will be young children who will get a hold of this game. The message this is sending young kids is that it is real. children are very influential and I think this is only going to do more harm.
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Yeah, MPAA and ESRB ratings don't do much to prevent children from getting their hands on the explicit content that their not supposed to see. Like I said in the discussion, these kids just have to learn right from wrong from the role models they have around them. There's no avoiding exposure to such graphic material. Even if we didn't have all this media based entertainment, we all learn at some point. I just had a random thought on Roman times. Did children go to see the gladiators fight?
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ReplyDeleteI believe children did watch gladiators perform, which is why this discussion seems to not have a definite solution. If children watched real deaths in person, then animated violence is nothing. However, the deaths weren't too clear from far away, and video games bring real-life violence up close. I've bought games before the age of 17 at a wal-mart and nobody ever would ID me. Games such as Grand Theft Auto, where you can have sex with prostitutes, rob people, drive over people with cars, shoot stab or blow up anything, AND commit suicide. Call of Duty is also realistic war violence, with blood everywhere and limbs falling off. I believe cartoon violence is suitable for children, but realistic warfare and gang violence should be slapped with a video-game NC-17-type rating.
-James Adams
With godchildren getting into video games, and aspiring to have children of my own some day, I hear what you're saying.... But at the same time, making the whole society conform to a safety level of kid-friendliness seems like forcing the LCD.
ReplyDeleteBTW, while writing this I saw webcams from both Budapest and Indianapolis. Wild.
I completly agree with what you are saying in your blog. i beleive that younger and younger kids every year are getting a hold of mature rated vidio games. But i just think that the parents shoudnt be allowing these kids to buy these games. i acually work with kids and i see kids fro the ages of 7-9 that have PSPs and the game they have is Call OF Duty. When we see this we have to tell the parents that they have the game and most realy dont mind and some even buy it for them.
ReplyDeleteI feel that it can be harmful for younger children to see or play violent content but at the same time like Bjorn said, we cannot make the world completely child proof. I've also always felt like its the parents or society's job to make sure the youth understands that its for entertainment and not to be seen as reality.
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