Saturday 20 February, 2010

I started off my third session entering the park to load up on supplies. I was once again disturbed by the conversation between Eric and Dylan. I was shocked by the fact that Dylan could just look at the city and say that he just wants to blow up the entire thing. While the game does not exactly show their emotions, I got from the dialog that they were very cold and unemotional. I noticed that at one point Dylan said that Eric was his only friend, helping to partially describe why they might be doing this. When they began to take their supplies out of the bags I was not surprised. I soon began to change my feelings when they continued to pull out more and more guns, more bombs, and more knives. I could not believe how many weapons they had. This shows me how serious they really were. They did not just want to do some damage, they wanted to cause a massacre. Once I left the park I spent the rest of my session attempting and failing to set the car bomb. After having played this game for an hour and a half I was very disturbed. I cannot believe that this game has not been outlawed or banned in some way and I do not understand why anyone would want to create this game. Columbine was such an awful and tragic event and there is no reason for it to be relived. I cannot even imagine what it must be like for the friends and families of those that lost their lives in this event to see this game; to know that people all over the world can reenact this horrible tragedy every day; that this massacre is living on. How can the creator of this game not feel for those family members and friends? This is truly an awful game and I find it completely immoral, I almost feel immoral for even playing it. This is because there is no moral way to play it, in order to advance in the game the player must make numerous immoral decisions. In no way should the events that occurred at Columbine high school be reenacted or joked about in the creation of a game. This game is truly appalling.

"This is because there is no moral way to play it, in order to advance in the game the player must make numerous immoral decisions."

This sounds like a lot of commercial games out there, Grand Theft Auto included. So, how is this game different? Or do yo feel the same way about all the other games as well?