Is video game just a game ?

Hi everyone,

After watching the video, I have got some comment for it.

According to the film, some pros of playing videogames is the people, especially young people who play videogames can get some entertainment. When they play the game, they can express their emotion and have a relaxed emotion from it. For example, the video used The Sims to explain this function. People can build their another life which they can control anything in it. Also, young people like to do something that they can not do in the reality when they playing videogame. Such as killing people in the videogame. This is also one way to express their stress and emotion, to avoid them to kill people in the reality.

However, there also some cons of videogames. People, especially young people may be easy confused between the reality and the virtual world. Therefore they may do some illegal action or killing people in the reality after they played videogame. They may follow the character's situation. For individual, people may use many time to play videogame per day, then their daily life will be affected by this action. They may addicted in the fantasy and virtual world.

In my opinion, governments should ban certain games such as GTA. The reason is these kind of game, although this can give people another way to express their emotion and stress, but these kind of game may also bring a aggressive values to those player, especially the young people. They may affected by these aggressive values and do some illegal action or anti-social actions. Japan have many cases that high school student killing classmate after a small dispute. This can prove that the videogame can bring this problem to the society. Therefore, I prefer government to have the right to ban certain games to protect the people.

Last but not least, is the game that I like the most. It is Metal Gear. This is a game that about spy. Player is that spy and this game is a third person point of view game. Metal Gear encourage player to finish the mission without alarming any enemy's attention. However, when you at spotted by the enemy, your only choice is to kill him. I like this game because this game can test my planning to avoid the attention of the enemy. However, the worrying point is this game included the killing and shooting elements. These kind of elements may affected the children's behavior when they play this game.

Wai
03-11-2010