Wednesday 27 October, 2010

So as i continued to play the game today.. I was still having trouble getting back to how to actually play the game because of all the annoying font and how it lacks directions and exactly what to do.. you have to kind of figure it out for yourself. It gives you semi directions and then needs you to do the rest. I started to notice some different issues within the game. We arent playing real people in the game. but since they are real characters but dead we are playing dead people in their after life. But this is very disturbing because its so disrespectful. What they did was wrong but if you step in their parents minds what would they think. That people are reliving and doing the same bad deeds as there dead kids actually did in real life except now its in video game format. But throughout the game there really isnt a impacting strong message in this game.. Your pretty much just playing and then it changes and you get away from the whole real event and get to a hell point of view.

Does it matter that the students real names aren't used? Also, how is this different from, say, playing a first-person shooter that recreates historical battles from World War II where thousands died?