When war meets video games

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be on a battle field, in midst of gun fire and bomb shells to the left and the right of you? The only way to advance is to fight your way through, or die trying. The growing trend of war based video games, I believe, focuses greatly on trying to make them realistic. The fantasy of being in middle of a battle and the thrill of suspense at every turn makes war games that much more attractive to its audience. The ecstasy of the game and the risk of sitting on a couch, playing a video game provides much less threat compared to that of an interactive game that involves most of the components of a war game, games such as paint ball, laser tag. If these games weren’t as developed and realistic as they are today, many people definitely wouldn’t think twice about a flashy war game. The thrill of seeing things that might actually be viewed at battle front is exactly what most youth want; I suppose it’s the thrill of the unknown or rather, experiencing something new. Unfortunately, this exact thrill and ecstasy is what desensitizes our youth, and with the good of all the pleasures of war video games comes the bad.

In my opinion, war games or any violent video games are truly a waste of time, but then, I’m not a person that is really into video games. I believe their popular only because children these days (including many people I know) need mental stimulation every waking minute. Obviously this is a huge problem, as it is not just video games that does this, TV, music and practically every other revolutionary technology of the 20^th and 21^st century carry a certain charm that makes most, to all people want to be stimulated by it. War games are just a way to keep a person from entering bored. Today’s youth cannot apprehend the simplicities of the world, and so must resort to other types of stimulation. Reading has been replaced with Television and video games, sports skills with computer skills. Yes, war games are mesmerizing to the average gamer but the results of constantly playing war games, as most kids today do, are ways of isolating one self from others and can have great consequences in the future.