I would have to say that watching video games is different then being a fan of sports or watching a movie. I think that to get any excitement out of of video games you have to be playing them. There have been sometimes where I have watch someone playing a video game, more specifically a sports game. What caught my attention was how real it looked. When I first glanced at it I thought that it was an actual game being televised on the t.v. What made it seem more of a video game then a televised game was when I saw two players run through each other and that the ball went through the wall and it counted as a home run, instead of bouncing back off the wall.
Part 2- The most dominant type of media that expresses global issues worldwide is television. However, recently there is a new way to express global issues and that is in online video games such as Ayiti. Ayiti is a game that brings social and cultural issues about Haiti to the video game world.
1. Being a game on the internet makes it accessable worldwide
- Talk about who is able to play this game
- Talk about why this game is online rather than on a console
2. It represents real problems in Haiti
- I will connect the real issues in Haiti to the issues raised in the game. The biggest one being poverty
3. The message of the game is more important than the graphics
- I will talk about the gameplay. How the characters move, what to look for, the graphics. More importantly I will discuss the message in which the game is trying to convey to its audience.
Being as accessible as it is online, anyone of any age can play this video game. It is very simple to play and the message it is conveying is very straight forward. Even though the graphics are not exceptional it is very easy to tell that this game deals with the issue of poverty.
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