Video Games Computer game: F.E.A.R

[Zafiro]

Its was many years since I played computer games. Yesterday I started play a game called F.E.A.R.
Sometime you wonder if games like F.E.A.R is good for your kids. Its a very violent game much blood and dead bodies and nasty language. The F-word is used a lot.
You shot people to survive. Its easy to tell that the guys behind this game is influenced by the movie "The Ring". This spooky girl with black hair is here and trying to scare you. Its a my kind of game since I used to play Quake a lot.

Just look at these screensshots.
Its it really healthy to let young kids play a game like this?






More screenshots.
http://compactiongames.about.com/library/screenshots/blscreens_fearpg1.htm

 

[Snake Vargas]

For most practical purposes I think video games should be subject to the same regulations as movies. That said, it's not like in cinemas where the person who buys the ticket is generally the one who watches the movie. It's pretty much like a DVD, where the purchaser may be giving it as a gift, or to have at home where anyone can access it. So that's not the complete solution.

Then again, there is no real solution, at that. It's been an idea often used by keen gamers who do not want external control over their games, but the ultimate responsibility should be of parents to regulate what their kids do, whether it's what games they play, or what movies they watch, or anything. That's the responsibility of being a parent.

The government can just help by giving light regulation - I wouldn't want anything that's too hardcore in the game, anyhow - and also making it necessary for games to accurately report what possibly objectionable content there is in a game (all the more likely to be made real in the US given that Rockstar/GTA fiasco).

As for my personal idea, I don't think it's really healthy for kids to play games like that, or adults for that matter. Sure, most people can tell right from wrong, and real from fantasy/game, but I don't think there's any way that it can actually be beneficial, beyond whatever strict entertainment value one finds in the game. But then, it's a free country, and you can do what you like, generally.

 

[Mr. M]

I think that's why F.E.A.R has a specific rating of 18 and above (or so I think) to prevent the young kids from ever getting their hands on this exceptional game. That said, it isn't really effective because my friends and I have downloaded the demo for this game and tried it out. We're 16 but it feels appropriate enough and the content is not too bad. I mean, if kids these days can take the likes of The Ring and Ju-On, I think this game should not be a problem. I think Silent Hill 4 is a much more traumatising game.