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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Gamers


Wow, where do I begin. This movie dealt with so many different issues, but I would rather just give you a brief summary of what the movie itself was about. First off everyone around the world is basically addicted to playing these two video games that are very realistic. Not as realistic as the movie existenz in the gamer point of view. There are two games that people actually play other people, one is called Slayers, which is where Gerard Butler comes into the storyline, and another game, which I will not reveal at this point in time. The point is that this movie takes place is a future world where humans can control other humans in a mass scale, multi-player, online gaming environment. Its quite sick actually. Some parts of the movie were soo disgusting I wanted to leave, but I am not that kind of person, I stick movies out till the end, even if I do throw up in my mouth. This movie dealt with race, definitely gender, gender issues, homosexuality, and tons of violence. I don't want to say to much about the movie itself because I want everyone in our class to see it and others as well. It was a great movie and the ability one person can have over the entire world is insane, its like watching Hitler give his speeches on those film reels from the 40's, completely twisted. I totally enjoyed this movie, I want everyone to see it and I think everyone needs to see it. It is definitely an eye opener of what might possibly come in the future of gaming...and that is really scary.

Prince of Persia


Personally I enjoyed this video game, the controls were a little sticky but otherwise it was a cool game. I wasn't very into having to move the camera around yourself, that could possibly be from me playing God of War II, where you never have to move the camera around it does it for you. This is actual a nice feature because it lets you know where to go next, even though I use IGN for the walkthrough...I'm such a cheater. Anyway back to the game, Prince of Persia is definitely man friendly. We didn't play far into the game, but you could see in the first scene how women are seen. The one woman we saw was of great importance to the prince, but was just a woman thats it. I did like how we all played together and cheered each other on. As a class I think we helped each other out a lot, especially for the more inexperienced gamers who needed help. Prince of Persia is a great game, the first one I think could use a little more women in the gameplay. Like if you compared it to Zelda there was a woman who knew her fighting moves and wasn't a sexy seductress in fact she made herself look more like a man. I have not played any of the new Prince of Persia video games, but I am sure they are just as good and even better. I was super excited to play video games in class and I cannot wait to do it again.