I was at GameStop the other day, and there was a family in front of me in line -- a man, a woman, a baby, and what looked like a six-year-old girl. The little girl was wearing a bright green dress and seemed happy about all . As the family came to the front of the line, the store said the girl 's DS Lite display unit, which was the DS version of Call of Duty: World at War .
" Call of Duty ! Call of Duty! Call of Duty ! Weeee! ", She shrieked, jumping up and down while spinning with outstretched arms. '\ No," said the one I assume was the mother, "We' re still a family game today. "\" But I want Call of Duty ! "Barked the little girl, interrupted with a pout and a" harumph! "
This isn 't the first time this month, I' ve seen a small child to proclaim their love for Call of Duty . Last week I was at Best Buy shopping with a girlfriend and his two nephews, ages six and eight. As we were looking at video games, the children were overjoyed to me about how much they knew, tell Pokemon , Bakugan Kirby 's Creed But it was not 't until we saw the store' s Call of Duty: Black OpsIndication that they really freaked out. "I love this game, I love it so much," said the eight-year-old. I asked him what he liked about it. "The killing of ..." he said in a singsong, matter-of-fact tone.
From there, I asked all my friends parents if their children were in Call of Duty . With the exception of the few who have a total ban of video games and television, they were united. Thought their children Call of Duty was cool, regardless of whether they 've played or not. Even the kids who weren 't reported in the series that everyone knows that Call of Duty
So why is it that kids love - or at least respect - Call of Duty ? How is it that they 've also played these games? Aren 't they rated M for mature?
Here are a few theories.
It's M for mature
Ever since the ESRB came into effect, I've noticed an inverse relationship between a game's rating and a game's target audience. Everyone I know who's over 40 only plays games that are rated E (assuming they play videogames at all), those under 40 are willing to play games that are either E, T, or M, and those under 20 tend to be particularly attracted to M-rated games. This seems to be particularly true of kids under ten. It's the same old paradigm -- kids want to be grown ups, and grown ups want to be kids again. That's pretty much common knowledge when it comes to lightweight sociology.
Even still, it 's surprising to me how much younger children are especially attracted Video Games Which allegedly made for adults, while they are content with "age-appropriate" books and music. These children have no interest in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or the music of Tom Waits. You 're totally satisfied with fairly family friendly, such as the aforementioned Harry Potter and Justin Bieber.
So what to do Bieber , Call of Duty And Harry Potter
It 's like a magic trick - if you' re a child, he saw a man pull a quarter from your ear, your brain, to transport a really amazing place. Part of you know, it believes must be sleight of hand, but another part of you that perhaps the impossible a reality. When these two parts of the brain to meet, magic happens.
The Magic is ruined if you 've looked behind the curtain. If you know how a trick is, get off your childlike wonder, and your cynical 'adult' brain turns on. The same goes for graphics. If anything you when you see a "realistic" looking game photographs of real objects such as textures, motion capture actor, particle effects, a million dollars worth of rendering software used to think the magic is gone.
For most children, it does nothing. Suspension of Disbelief is a much easier feat to achieve for a young mind. If they see a realistic-looking game, they think don 't like it was made, or how much it cost to produce. They just think how awesome it looks, and how much fun it is, in the game 's to be the world. The Call of DutySeries really feels for a child than it ever for me, and in this way, I envy the kids.
so much.
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