WHEN WAR MEETS VIDEO GAMES

Games are the main entertainment for several young adults, kids, and even students. But the most known genre out of all the games that are made is war games. In my opinion, war games are so popular now because these war games have so much action in the game play and people, like myself, enjoy playing the game in first-person view because it makes us feel as if we were actually in the game. First person allows the player to play the game on how the character in the game sees the environment. War games such as, Call of Duty 1-3, Counter Strike, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 1-3 and Delta Force: Black Hawk Down are all war games that play through first person view. Other war games like Socom II: US Navy SEALs and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 1 and 2 are examples of war games that okay through another view called third person. Third person is when you see the environment from the back of the character as if you were looking at the same direction as the character is. Also, people that play games (gamers) enjoy these war games because in some war games, it gives them the ability to play with other gamers online in a multiplayer mode.

I think that realistic war games doesn’t desensitive people to the horror of war, it jus makes it more fun. Gamers enjoy war games that are more realistic because it adds more excitement to the game play. If the game wasn’t that realistic, then the game would get boring because there isn’t as much action as there is when it is more realistic. Games that are more realistic and have explosions that sound real, show dead bodies on the floor, and have good sound affects are the type of games that gamers would rather get. With all these qualities in a war game, it would keep you at the edge of your seat and make things more exciting.

Personally I think that these war games are great to play because it can always bring excitement, especially when you play online multiplayer with other people from around the world. War games never get boring because when you play online with other players, some games allow you to communicate with the other players in your team that are playing along side you, as long as you have a mic to speak into. Games like Socom and Counter Strike allows you to communicate with the other players. Even though some parents say that these war games are too violent for their kids, people still play them and ignore what the parents think.

AN iPOD CLASSROOM?

In my opinion, i think that using an iPOD for lectures won't allow me to learn things much better than it would if I am lectured by teachers. Using iPODs to lecture students doesn't sound like a bad idea, but it won't work more effectively. If students have questions to subjects that they don't understand, where is a teacher that can answer all of their questions if they're listening to the lecture at home or somewhere else except school? If i try to learn by using an iPOD, I'm pretty sure that i won't be able to learn anything because i will be too eager to listen to music instead of listening to the teachers lecture me through an iPOD. This is the reason why i think that i won't be able to learn well using an iPOD. But i would still try and get an iPOD for myself instead of school. In my opinion, i think that if Mary Ward embrasses such technology for education, some students might do better in school. If we go to a seminar, we don't need to be taking notes the whole way, we could just listen to the seminar over and over again in our iPODs. It's also useful because students can review or rewatch the seminar again at home if they're having troubles understanding their lesson. But like i said earlier, some people might be too eager to just listen to music instead of using the iPOD for school purposes. The fact that students might be more eager to listen to music instead of listening to school seminars, is a disadvantage of our school to embrase such technology for education. This will put students off course of the path that they decide to choose.