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"Political Statements - No Thanks!!!!"

I don't know if this has already been spoken about. Apologies if it has but I was reading recently about a game about Soccer Holiganism, there has also been reports about racist computer games being developed.

Is it me or was anyone really dissapointed by this, I mean, I have been an avid computer game fan for years and I am pleased at the way that Computer Games are going from strength to strength and more people are getting into it. But I feel that the above games are taking advantage of the games playing public, using games to get across messages as mentioned above is distorting the whole purpose of games and are generally giving gamimng a bad name. I admit that while GTA3 is not necessarily completely morally or politically correct, the makers are not trying to win people over into thinking that "jacking" cars and runnning people over is ok etc. Is this the case with the hooligan game, I would have to question the reason this game has been made, and racist games, disguting. In this day and age it is unbelievable to think that video gaming is being used as a means to bring people together is actually being used to segregate people and poison and influence peoples minds.

Is there a difference between shooting someone in GTA3 for the various reasons there are and shooting someone in a racist game because of their skin colour? Of course, I think that computer games should be used to educate, insight and help people have fun. Not co-erce them into supporting a twisted sick idea.

Sorry to rant on but Let's just be grateful that these games are few and far between and hope that they stay that way in the near future.

I don't know if your supposed to reference other sites but I read it on the Guardian.

Here are the links, sorry SR if this is disallowed.

Holigan:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,662110,00.html

Racist:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,653854,00.html

I read something like that in the Metro (a free newspaper on the Tube).. they do a page on the tech industry every week...
there are moore and more games around where you to kill only Jews or only Nazis... Sick games.. If you're interested i'm sure there are MODs around on the internet..

Its not like she can scratch it for you either.. well, unless she got some knitting needles handy..

I can feel an illness coming on...

'Nurse! My brains itching, can I go home?'

I've done my time though. Now I get to relax...

(I dont mean I've been inside btw..)

For you maybe

I am here. Not in college though. Home.

Which is nice.

There's going to be a game about the gulf war as well. I know it's supposed to be entertainment but I just find these sorts of things a bit sinister as topics for games. Same with Medal of Honour: it might be a great game but recreating a conflict in which so many people died (and then bragging about in adverts) just doesn't seem right to me.

Is anyone else in college now?

I'm bored, hardly anyone's on

As in

'Do the Ayatolah, do the Ayatolah!'

I guess you have to be there..