The 11th annual Interactive Acheivement Awards selected Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare the best game of the year. This event is equivalent to the Oscars (for those who don't know) , and Call OF Duty took home game of the year. As we have talked about in class with war games and army games, Call of Duty follws those standards as it is a modern warfare game. Crictics of the game were skeptical due to the setting of the game, Russians against a Middle-Eastern group that had access to nuclear bombs, but were thrilled when they found out their achievment. The game has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
Having played the game myself and being a big fan of it I am glad to see that it received top honors. While playing in campaign mode I did think, "wow this could actually happen", but I think that its farfectched and wouldn't happen anytime soon. This brings me to my questions for this blog post. Should the number one video game in the world be a modern warfare based game considering how easily this could happen in real life? Since this could be relevant to the world today is it ok that they are creating a game about this? If not this game being number one what kind of game should be?
Having played the game myself and being a big fan of it I am glad to see that it received top honors. While playing in campaign mode I did think, "wow this could actually happen", but I think that its farfectched and wouldn't happen anytime soon. This brings me to my questions for this blog post. Should the number one video game in the world be a modern warfare based game considering how easily this could happen in real life? Since this could be relevant to the world today is it ok that they are creating a game about this? If not this game being number one what kind of game should be?
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I don't think its exactly appropriate but I strongly advocate freedom of speech and expression, and even if it offends people I think media should never be censored even if its offensive and vulgar. It must be a really fun game if it sold that many copies and if its making money and people have fun playing it then it is doing its job. If you are sensitive to every possible situation no one would ever get anything done, and this game would probably be a lot less enjoyable.
I don't think we can control which game is number one. The game is number one, obviously because people who like video games like this one. So it's a good game. You can't control what kind of game will be number one, so that is up to who makes it. Number one cannot be determined, because there will always be someone deciding that a different game is number one. Yes, I would rather not have a violent game be the most popular, but how many people will really act on it? How will this game REALLY effect us?
At this point in time there are so many war games out there, and they have come so far. As far as graphics, objectives, gameplay, realistic quality, sounds, ect. These games have come a long way. I remember James Bond 007 for N64, the graphics are no where close to the new Call of Duty 4. This game is just following the trend of other popular war games that people are more than willing to purchase. So I do feel as though it is appropriate. I hope it gives people a sense of the chaotic war fare and, if anything, we can gain appreciation and respect for our men and women actually fighting over in Iraq right now.
I do think it is okay to have a game based on modern warfare. There are already modern warfare games available to consumers. Just because it has a bigger reality, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. If anything, I think that a game like that would be beneficial to people learning more about what happens in war.
I don't think it matters if it could happen in modern life. People who award it don't really look at it that way. As long as the game play and everything else is good. There are a lot of games that are relevant to the world today. And that's how some games sell, because people could relate to it. They like the realism it brings.
The number one video game should be the most fun and the one people want to play. Regardless of genre. It should be about how much fun they have.
um...does it really matter? i think that the game does show a certain possibility that something like this could happen...maybe. but if you're going to say that, then you have to say the same thing for every other game created based on a not-so-near future. 'is it ok' is an irrelevant question because that's how it is. people love whatever is closest to real, and they especially love a juicy story, which the one for Call of duty 4 is. is there anything wrong with a juicy story? does the fact that someone made a sweet ass game about a possible future mean that it will actually happen? or give the 'bad guys' the intelligence to carry it out? i really doubt it.
The number one game should be the top selling, highest rated game. If it is a war game so what. Gamers enjoy violence. I think it sells so much because it could be possible. I would like to play a game that might happen. In a sense, it is better than a game that actually happened and people have grieved over and have been affected by. I think that is why people like Halo; because it is fictional. Why is World of Warcraft so big? It is fictional. That is what makes all of these games good.
I don't think any game that is sort of made up on warfare really could happen and I honestly don't think that the programmers are thinking about that when they make up the game. If you look at the warfare games that cover actual wars such as world war II and Vietnam even they are completely factual (most of the missions are pretty factual and didn't really happen). I don't think it's a bad thing that people make up games that could "possibly" happen because hey they have to get their material from somewhere right?
A number 1 game is something that brings a different feel for a genre or something that is totally new. Call of Duty 4 really does bring a new experience because of the stunning graphics,physics, story, online multiplayer and ties them together so well. A game like this is appropriate because it brings real life problems like nuclear bombs falling into the hands of terrorists. Most people learn more about history from games than people who are against games and are not aware of whats going on in the world.
I think that when people rate a game as number one, they are not really thinking about the message that game might be sending or the inapropriate content in that game. What determines the ranking of a game is mostly how intertaining and engaging it is. I can see how some people may be offended or taken aback by such game as this, but i think that it should not be taken that seriously. If it is named the number one game, then obviously people enjoy playing it and that is the most important part in the rating process. And after all, it is just a game...
That argument is comparable to when our newspapers print military strategies and documentaries about their whereabouts and plots for the world to see. I dont think osama is out hiding in some cave with his Xbox 360 live account (xXy0uC4NtF1nDm3Xx) playing Call of Duty 4 saying this is a good idea... II think I'll do it!
Thats like blaming 13 year olds pre 9/11 for flying their basic polygonal Microsoft flight simulator Boeing into the towers and claiming Osama might have gotten hold of the replay. Sorry If i've offended anyone just ranting.
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I am not really sure how to feel about if it is alright for this game to recieve the honors that it did or for it to be as popular as it is due to it that it is a possibility that what is going on in the game could happen in real life. I do think that it would be very unfortunate if something did break out between the Russians and the people of the Middle East because I know that the people that made this game would take a lot of heat from the public.
If there was any warfare-like event where the Russians were against the people of the Middle East and the people that made this game decided to fashion it after the conflict, I do feel that that would be wrong. But seeing on how it has not happened and no one really knows for sure if it even will, I don't know how to feel.
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