modern+video+game+violence

Video game violence has escalated since the poorly pixilated early years. Due to relaxed censorship laws and the increase in violence that most people are accustomed to video game companies are allowed to create games where the character is allowed to do increasingly more violent things such as the //Grand theft Auto// game series. One of the most violent video games out to day is //Fallout 3.// In //Fallout 3//, the player is allowed to murder and steal as much as they want, with the only repercussion is slight distrust from good NPC's (non player characters) and the occasional attack of easy-to-kill bounty hunters. //Fallout 3// measures your characters morality by "Karma." While the "Evil Karma" choice usually makes your character more money, the "Good Karma" can make some missions easier, makes people like you, and gets you discounts at some stores, while sending evil mercenaries after you who, compared to the bounty hunter for the evil character, are extremely well equipped but no more difficult to kill, and giving you a significant boost in profit if you sell their equipment. While you travel around the game world, you will be faced with vicious monsters and mutants, as well as morally compromising situations. In one such instant, you find a thriving community built around an undetonated atomic bomb. You are begged by the local sheriff to disarm it because he “doesn’t trust the settler’s skill in such matters.” He offers you citizen ship and a free house in town to disarm the bomb and help them. If you go up to the local saloon, a shady businessman offers you a thousand dollars, plus a penthouse suite in a hotel-fortress that his employer owns to rig the bomb to detonate from a wireless signal outside the blast radius. When asked why he wants the town destroyed, the man merely states that his employer is ''tired of seeing a rusted pile of junk ruing his view." a good character can report the man to the local sheriff, who will attempt to arrest the man, who will pull a gun. You have a slight chance to save the sheriff. You can then save the town. A bad character can rig the bomb to detonate, and live with very little repercussions. Several countries, most notably Japan, had the evil option of this mission removed due to obvious reasons.   When fighting the various monsters, mutants, and drug addicted raiders, the player has access to a feature that pauses the game and allows the character to target specific parts of the enemy’s body, such as arms, torso, legs, and head. On occasion, repeated shots to a limb can cause the limb to either explode into pieces, or just disconnect from the body. This has caused the game to be banned in several countries. Here is a censored image from a typical headshot against an enemy. And here is a link to the uncensored version so, if you don't believe that you would be offended, you can see why I had to censor this image to use it on this page [] I had to censor this image due to the fact that I am using it in a school environment, and it would possibly offend some of the students that I presented it to. One other change that had to be made before this game was sold in Japan was a weapon, known as the "Fat Man Micro Nuclear catapult" had to have the name of the weapon changed to the "Nuka-Launcher," again, for obvious reasons. This game was banned in several southeastern Asia countries and Middle East countries due to drug use, alcoholism, and, in the case of India, a two headed mutant cow. Several downloadable add-ons for this game had it banned in china due to the game showing china as starting a nuclear war with America. Several of these reasons had the games successor, Fallout: New Vegas, banned in most of the same countries, along with several of the previous changes to weapon names, along with being banned for allowing gambling.