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.