The realism of video games

Remember the good old days of video games? When cute, harmless and completely unbelievable and mythical characters would tackle Zany adventure in imaginary worlds away from ours? Those days are long gone now. Because a lot of games now use real-world sites, events and people that their plots and settings. Whereas before, video games are a means to escape the reality of the diversion, now are extensions of reality in which we live and how the game and the person playing it, which may be a good thing or something very ugly.

Take a look at one of the most popular video game franchises in history: Super Mario Bros. A plumber falls through a pipe and enters a world where you must save a princess and defeat the evil monster and navigate a world full of mushrooms, blocks, question marks and goombas. Regardless of how the imagination of a creative might be, there is simply no way that this type of incident can happen in this world, like, for real. Thus, the illusion of the game remains intact.

Now if you look at the game today for popular systems such as Microsoft Xbox 360 or Sony Playstation Portable, you can clearly see that video games now use real-world problems that their premise. Of course, there are also a lot of games based on fantasy and characters. But the game more likely to use Iraq as their medium, rather than a kingdom of fungi. Now if you look at video games in the past and reach the dawn of home video game explosion - early 1980 - would be hard to imagine an agreement with the video game, say for example, hostage crisis in Iran or the invasion of the Falkland Islands . But today there are many video games with current events as a world of fantasy game.

There are many theories about the lack of reality based on video games. Best video game graphics can make it easier to make real world wars, conflicts and problems that seem much more real on screen. It could be that developing a game based on the war in Afghanistan is easier than starting to develop a game from scratch with new characters, settings, scenarios, etc. This may be a calculated effort to improve the frustrated people who can not really join the fight: the fight to these terrorists creeps hate is the comfort of their home. In the latter case, at least he can do a quick way to make a buck faster.

Before video games used to be easy to define a line between tax evasion and realism. On one side was the life and the real world with all its problems and diseases, most of which you can not control. On the other hand was the game world, you are the owner and are in the final control total. Idea: why not combine the two, and give a video game player total control that video games provide a real world situation in which they would otherwise feel helpless?

It seems that today, a player can watch the news, they get angry and then do something in the real world that exists as a Playstation or Xbox. Now, if that contributes nothing essential for all is a topic for another debate altogether.