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    The first-person shooter has been one of the most popular video game genres of the decade. First person shooter video gaming was first introduced in the 1970's with titles such as Maze War and Spasim. First person shooter video gaming started to rise in popularity in the 1990's. id software released its first successful title Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. First person shooter video games allow players to experience the game in a first person perspective. First-person shooters played on computers are usually managed with a keyboard and mouse. First-person shooters played on gaming consoles are most often played using two analog sticks. One of the most popular first-person shooter video games was GoldenEye 007. GoldenEye 007 was released in 1997 exclusively…

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    With the popularity of video games soaring, people start to think things about those who play games. Their first thought may be that gamers just sit in a dark room all day, playing games with no regard to personal health, hygiene, or social interactions. Their second thought may be one of fear, thinking that the violent video games that have been growing in popularity may have had an effect. Finally, a non-gamer may think that a gamer is just a criminal in the making, learning what not to do…

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    Violent Video Games Essay

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    popular form of entertainment for teenagers in America and several other countries. Video game genres can vary from the casual puzzle/ problem solver variety to a fast paced first-person shooter types. Like many other forms of entertainment media, video gaming has received a great deal of scrutiny. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the entity that rates video games (e.g., C, E, T, M and A), claims that in 2010 the average gamer spent an astonishing 8 hours a day playing video…

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    Video games have become a modern activity in society, all ages can partake. There are many different types of games like action, adventure, Shooter, education, puzzle, racing and much more. Video games have also gone through changes aesthetically; we have gone through games such as Pong all the way to bloody gruesome games like Gears of War and Grand Theft Auto. The average ages of players are 9-17. Most of them would play video games for more than 20 hours a week. Playing video games…

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    Well, many videogames need violence to tell their stories. Let us take a look at one of the greatest stories in all of video games, the story of Bioshock. Set in the 1960’s in the underwater utopia of Rapture, a city built on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to be a haven of expression and objectivism by business mogul Andrew Ryan, Bioshock is a first person shooter entailing the arduous adventure of Jack (the player character). Jack is trapped in Rapture after his airplane explodes over the city…

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    Shooter Franchies

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    My research project question was “What are the top five best first person shooter franchises?”. The reason I chose this topic was more or less due to the fact that I do not have many interests outside of gaming, and because other ideas I had seemed far too inconsistent at providing results. I did not particularly want to do this topic, but time restraints and other issues made it the most suitable choice. The majority of my research was based around literature review, more specifically,…

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    Halo 5: Guardians

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    Halo 5 Halo 5: Guardians is a first person shooter developed by 343 and published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox one. You take control of a Spartan and slay the evil forces of the covenant. Each Spartan has 7 abilities (Halo 5: Guardians Beta- All 7 Spartan abilities (Smart Charge)). The first ability is a thruster pack. It always you to rapidly move one direction for a few seconds. When you jump you can slam the ground and kills enemies with the impact of the Ground Pound. Another ability is…

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    Battlefield 4 Battlefield 4 is a first-person shooter (FPS) set in modern day warfare. The game brings a sense of all out warfare and destruction to its players. Released originally on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC Battlefield is known for its realism and addictiveness. Create by a Swedish gaming development company (Dice) and published by EA in 2013. Battlefield 4 was one of the best battlefield games to be released by Dice due to its amazing graphics and overall variety in gameplay. Battlefield has a…

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    In fact it shows just the opposite. He’s first study show that crime rates among adolescents 12-17 years of age has dropped since the interdiction of violent video games. And in he’s second study to question the validity of laboratory studies that suggest a connection between violent video games and violent behavior. He says, “Exposure to only brief clips of media, rather than full narrative experiences provides the opportunity for aggression as if it sanctioned by the researchers themselves”…

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    Do Video Games Cause Violence A boy plays a new first person shooter game that he got before he goes to bed. The boy wakes up the next morning, do you think he wants to go to school and kill everyone now? No thats only for people with issues, the boy wants to go tell his friends about the game and how cool the game was. People play videogames for “sport” or to have fun. If someone wants to play it to kill someone or think that they are gonna respon, one they should be in a mental institute and…

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