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New DOOM III Shots
Warrior-GS writes "There are some new DOOM III screens on GameSpy coming from QuakeCon 2002 in Texas. There are also new screens of Elite Force II, the Return to Castle Wolfenstein expansion pack Enemy Territory and Return to Castle Wolfenstein for the PS2. Carmack is also scheduled to speak tomorrow for about two hours."
In this era of school shootings, teen gang members, and an all around increase in violence, how is releasing another shoot-em-up game conducive to a child's development? Children have fragile minds, and this cannot be helpful. Remember those kids that mad a Doom map of their school for practice? Things like that are frightening. Why can't we create games where the onjective is to help one another? To aid each other to be better people? Why must all games have to do with ending life violently?
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Once, a long time ago, I thought that maybe, by the 21st century, we, as a civilization, might have moved past the point where we like to get our rocks off by watching bloody explosions of gore in perfect digital detail.
Evidently not.
It's a well-established fact that video-game violence causes violent behavior. Yet, somehow, we're still horrified and shocked by the recent string of child abductions, by schoolyard shootings, and by the wars in the Middle East.
What? Surprised at that last item? Consider this: terrorist children, much like American children, are being raised on a nonstop diet of violence and gore, including many Hollywood movies and American video games. These influences render the children susceptible to suggestions that they commit violent acts -- even at the expense of their own lives. And it doesn't stop there: terrorists even use games such as Flight Simulator and Quake III to train themselves for the acts of violence they commit!
Please, I urge all of you: boycott this game, or risk thousands more innocent American and Israeli deaths.