Violence in Video Games

In today’s world, violence is becoming an ever-growing theme. In movies, on television, and now becoming increasingly prevalent in videogames, violence has become an interaction in many people’s everyday lives. While television and theaters may be too hard to enforce, violence in videogames needs to stop sooner than later in many families home.
Researchers now believe that violent electronic games have a far greater impact than violence on television (such as the Sopranos), because of their interactive nature (Berner, 58). First-person shooter games place weapons and fate (kill or be killed) of the characters into the hands of the players. In my experience of playing first person shooter games, the only objects visible to me on the screen is the weapon I am holding, and what ever is in front of that. I cannot even see my character; merely only the objects you are trying to destroy, along with the size of your weapon. This tells me game developers are no longer worried a...