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Old April 13, 2013, 11:35 PM   #62
dakota.potts
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To those using the "The military trains with these" approach, here is a 2003 study from the Department of Defense advocating action video games not because they teach you to be trained killers, but because they increase perceptual and cognitive ability 10 to 20% vs. somebody who doesn't play.

Furthermore, let's take a look at what's actually happening in these games and see if they're exactly murder simulators to teach kids how to play these games.

I'm going to pick from top titles: Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Halo, and you tell me what you think.

Battlefield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaGhE_sejI

Call of Duty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1LYKSQdxE

Halo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61bXX5TD1Ps

For those who didn't watch, in Battlefield a guy flies a jet up, jumps out, shoots another jet with a handheld RPG, and then lands on his plane and gets back in. This action wasn't intended within the game, just left possible with the controls. In Call of Duty he runs around "quick scoping" where he sprints around with a 30 lb. Barret .50 cal sniper rifle bringing the scope up at insane speeds to snipe people at distances from 5 feet to almost 200 with very little aiming required. Finally, in Halo, he begins the game being launched by an anti gravity propulsion system and then enters the battle with laser rifles, flying motorcycles, and plasma weapons that stick to the enemy and explode. Also notice that the sole tactic here is "rush through the enemy's bullets using your magical armor and shoot them 100 times before they shoot you 100 times so you can stay alive".

Oh, and here's Mass Effect, which many people protested because apparently the shooter at Newtown or Aurora played it That's like protesting Glock or Bushmaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2jt0IyFxY

I suppose you'd feel comfortable sending our soldiers into battle after learning to play that game?

And, just for fun, here's Fallout 3, where I once killed one of these monstrosities with a sledge hammer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLYWSh8oek You can skip to around 1:00
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