It's not all fun and Games

   Video games are a mass sorce of media that inspire fear through the gamer. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/interviews/2004/08/videogames_culture_of_fear_an_interview_with_emily_newton_dunn.html is a interview with Emily Newton Dunn demenstraits this well. Often most video games have real fears incorporated into the game itself, things like the environment, surroundings and conspiracy theories all have a part in creating this 'fear'. An example of a video game that could be considered to inspire fear and is played by a world wide population is C.O.D (Call of Duty). This game is all bout the Wars (WW1, WW2 etc..) the objective of said game is to basically kill the opponent. The setting of each game is set in a real world destination (normally a war ground) and the people in the game have human qualities therefore your killing other people so to say, it all seems very real to the gamer which in reality can be scary. Children of all ages play and for what ? The thrill of the kill ? It creates the allusion that war is fun, and happenes all the time when in fact thats not the case. We do not want our youth to think that killing and war are fun this is a great fear many parents have beceause of video games and it's not just C.O.D it's all the violent, strong storyline, and psychological games that mess with the gamers mind.