ESA Pushing for Gamers to Vote

Grooves writes "The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the first voter registration drive aimed at gamers, called 'Play for Real: Gamer Voter Drive'. The drive is being managed by the ESA's Video Game Voters Network, an attempt at growing a grassroots community around the issue of games legislation. From the article, 'Lowenstein would like to boost these figures by convincing younger voters that their voice will have an influence over issues they care about, particularly efforts to create new laws restricting video games.'"

Comments

I can just see the bumper stickers...

[ackthpt]

I can just see the bumper stickers...

• I'm a Guild Member and I vote
• End Violent Game Player Discrimination
• If I Don't Rule The World With An Iron Fist, Who Will?
• Virtual People Have Rights, Too
• Kazola For President
• "A PS2 in every living room and a rusting bicycle in every garage"
• Elect Jack Thompson - Then Impeach His Ass
  • Keep Politics Out of Games
  • Keep Games Out of Politics
• Speak Softly And Carry A Bat'leth
• My Child Is 60th Level In World Of Warcraft School

It bears repeating

[mcmonkey]

If voting worked, it would be illegal.

Voting rules

[robpoe]

Yeah, and the cheat code for the voting booth is

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, VOTE

That way the machine will access it's hidden firmware and convert ALL the votes to the person of your choice..

Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy

[mordors9]

Well no wonder. I am 45 and can barely stand to vote for most politicians. Most elections in the last 14 years have been votes for the lesser of evils as I saw it. If I struggle to relate with them on any level, how much success is an 18 year old going to have.They haven't gained a sufficent level of cynicism at that age. Although God knows our society is trying to beat them down until they do.

Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy

[HTH NE1]

I bet ya this will fail miserably just like the Vote or Die campaign aimed at youngsters.

Or backfire. The typical voting in gaming is whether or not to boot troublesome players out of the game whereas in politics you vote someone into office that (you think) would be better than (typically) the incumbent you want out.

Primetime TV game shows perpetuate this (voting someome off the show).

voting

[Anonymous Coward]

votekick bush

if that fails, we might be forced to:
votemap canada

Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy

[russ1337]

The typical voting in gaming is whether or not to boot troublesome players out of the game

I'd LOVE to see the kick-vote system in politics...

Dick Cheney has initiated a Vote to kick George (Press page-up to Vote Yes, Page Down for No)

Get those polls to the gamers!

[Dutchmaan]

Now if you could vote from your game!!! now that would work!

Quest Giver...

!

Vote
Election magistrate wants you to collect information on 6 candidates and return them to him!

Candidate Information 0/6

Rewards:
Voter registration Card

Play For Real

[Digital Vomit]

I tried playing that game a couple of time before. I keep dying a few levels in.

There are two unlocked characters to play from the start, but they're virtually identical. There are other characters, but I've yet to be able to unlock any of them. And there is no way to switch characters between levels, which would've been nice.

The controls are sluggish; it seems to take forever to get anything done in the game. There appears to be a controller glitch because the characters often do not go in the direction you are pressing. The Jump and Fire buttons work sporadically, and sometimes switch for some reason. It seems the only thing you're really meant to do is turn the game on; the controls are that bad.

The graphics are really flashy, but the story-line is pretty shallow and cliched. It's not much fun at all.

My rating: 2/10