Moral Kombat

Moral Kombat is a documentary film that looks at the violence within the game industry. There is a lot of controversy about the types of violence that is portrayed and also how graphic it can be. There have been several cases where violence in video games have been linked to real world violence situations. Even though this may be the case, it is not thoroughly proven and in actual fact there have been situations where games have actually helped people. They can have a lot of impact on a person's life, it can help kids deal with things in their environment in which they may not be able to talk about to other people.

Violence itself has always been around in our culture and it can be a mechanism to draw attention, the question is though how can you use it to send a positive message? Maybe teaching historical events through games. Everyone has their own views/morals so of course what might not be offensive to one person, it may really affect another. There needs to be a balance between how violence is portrayed and how much of it takes place within a game. It should really be about  choice, the choices you make and the consequences that proceed them. Take the Fable series, you as a player have the choice of being either good or evil and it is because of these choices that certain events will take place.

In my opinion there should be a limit to how graphic violence should be, there is no need to accurately show it and with technology advancing and video game graphics becoming more realistic, it might just be too much. At the end of the day it is down to personal opinion and taste, but there needs to be an awareness about it all, parents need to know what is out on the market and what is suitable for their own child. There are now more generations that play games so it has almost become part of our culture, no-where in the near future will it ever be wiped out (and nor should it) so we need to embrace it. The developers themselves should have the free range to explore and it's in their right to make something but they should always bear in mind the morals and whether or not it is ethically correct.