"GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer games are not only a new medium for the 21st century, they are a massive form of change in our world." says Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment. "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games." [1]
According to the film, video games have several purposes, such as, educational and learning purposes for children, attracting and training new army and entertaining people. Furthermore, in South Korea, video-games provide a room for some good gamer to earn money by selling currency and instrument of the game.
However, the video games brings some negative impacts to individuals and societies. Individually, a good gamer needs to spend a long period of time on playing video games. It harms their social network as they are lack of communication with other people in the real world. Socially, a cruel game introduced to the US army would also introduced to market. It brings a huge negative effect to the teenagers as it will distort their psychological building through playing these violent game.
There are some research prove that there is direct impact to the brain which, when you play violent video games, your aggressive feeling will increase, like FMRI. It reflects that their brain activity is more active when the experimenters are playing violent games.
As I mentioned before, the cruel and violent video games would bring some negative impacts to the players. In US, it is common that the school shooting exist. Some reports that those suspects were affects by the violent thinking and some anti-social actions are very intense.
Although there is a large influence brought by the violent game, we cannot restrict the freedom of the citizens. Even though the government implement the law, it can't ban the games comprehensively. On the other hand, this type of games contains entertaining purpose. People can release their pressure through playing the games.
Sims City is my group-mates' favourite videogame. This game can interact with people, develop management skills and creativity. It is because we need to interact with people in order to update level to unlock some special items and we can decorate the house and the character. However, there is some bad real-life behaviour will be led to the teenagers. As people can get married and have sex in the game, it may provide some information to some immature teenagers or may commit crimes.
[1] The dialogue from the video, http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/doc-zone-season-1-episode-6-gamer-revolution-1-3044611# (accessed Oct. 17, 2012)
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