Ashley LaBelle

Ive always known that there are messages relating to life in video games. I like how this article brings to attention the fact that the creators of american army intentionally made this game to make war fun and recuit more people. They needed a way to get to more people who didn't know about the war.

While playing American Army it was actually pretty boring but i think i could have gotten into it if i knew the levels better. I was held at the beginning because it wouldn't save. But i got the gist, it was very real and very fake at the same time. I feel as if you can see blatently how this game was made or how the creator wanted the player to feel. You have a leutenient or whoever the guy is talking to you right away and ordering you around. He tells you to go get a gun and then you can play and everyone is nice.
My brother in law was in the army and he lost friends, told me about the conditions and food and just simply seeing movies its far far from reality of this little video game. And of course anyone who is educated in this area knows this. But in reality your arent with your family, you can't stop, and you would kill someone or be killed. That is very real and dramatic. The game is so interestingly light and not even close to what is real, and maybe it becomes more so later on in the game. But its a good and unfortunate tactic to try and recruit people. But at the same time that brings up violence in video games, does it effect the youth? some people would say yes and some no. The ones that said no should have no problem with this type of game and the people who created it because it has no effect on the player so the creator can try as hard as they want. But what was also said in the reviews i found is that it descencitizes humans from actual murders from the video games. So the creators could go in from that tactic, by not making it look fun but by making the player ammuned to it. And then if they target low income people then it doesn't sound all that bad if they join the army because they will get benefits out of it. Which makes the creators of this game possibly an accomplice to murders. And if this game does it, how many others do it and if not all. What might other games be trying to get us to do. How many creators are there? and it only makes sense that they would be putting there own opinions into the game. It's there art and they can blatently put it in there or hide it so we would never know. We are just playing there message filled piece of art.