Over The Top

A stroll through the video game store will tell you all that you need to know about what games sell the most. Among the rows of auto racing, football and avatar titles are countless first person shooters. The fps make up more than half of the games on the market today and for good reason. The roaming environments and fast nonstop action has wide appeal for most serious gamers. While most FPS include mowing down monsters or taking out slow moving zombies several titles like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty, don't mess around. Solders shooting terrorist, gang members killing cops, it's just become part of norm. I know from talking to most parents it's not the violence that they have issues with but rather the strong language and sexual content. I'm not sure why parents feel this way. It seems little eyes watching overly violent images might be equally harmful.