The Ethics of Digital Games

a) According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing video games for individuals and societies?
Video games is a new media that people can participate in which is different from TV shows. Thus, people playing video game not just join into a competition, but also enjoy the high quality of the images. With the narrative in the game progress, participants can influence the ending of the game so that they can try and play many times for different endings. The story telling feature is similar to TV shows or soap opera, but video game is more than that. Players can join in the game, to interactive.What's more, it's a way to release his or her pressure in daily life which may caouse him or her courage facing the trouble or may just devoted in the illution and ignore the trouble in real life. Different people must have different response to video games.
For society, the government benefit from, or rather utilize, video game to inluence young generation to reach their goals. Like the army tempt teenagers to join in through a free war game. They can get to know the latest weapon and be familiar how to use it. The quality of sound and image is very high that players can enjoy it. It seems like a new kind of advertisement. On the other hand, violent video game may cause real violence to danger the society. But if it's simply a relaxing soft video game, on the contrast, favoured the government that people are tend to ignore the ignore or avoid thinking about the problem of their living conditions.
b) According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?
Yes I think so.Through practice they know how to use weapon effectively and the many details of pictures make the world in game is closly similar to real life. Players may just releaseing their pent-up emotions at beginning but soon not enough for them.

There's a movie calld Elephant(2003), directed by Gus Van Sant, adapted from a news in  April 20, 1999, The Columbine High School massacre. From the movie people can know how teenagers are inhospitality and inhumaned. compare to their calssmate, vedio game, espacially violent games, have  inevitable responsibility .

c) Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I don't think so. It's abuse of law.There's  no direct evidence that  most of the players of a certain game have negative effect on them and the society.It's more close to moral problem. But government should guid to a positive use of it.

we did a small research about what game they play and how do they fell about it.

my interviewers are 4(female), two of them like playing Cooking Mama because they like cooking and in the video game they can practice their skills and try efferent materials freely. One also said that she is not good at cooking and playing the game helped her wish come true in another way and she is encouraged to cook in real life. What's more, the game is designed perfectly that players feel it's true and really entertained. The other two like playing The Sim 3 because they can learn how to be a leader and to control people, escape from the pressure in reality for a while. Also, the visual quality is very high and players feel relaxed and one of the interviewers said that through the game she feel have a different life and she can control her life. But she also claimed that once addicted in the game she feel hard to maintain the relationship in real life well.