Postmordernism CI - Issues and debates that are raised

A debate that can be raised due to the fact that is games now in our 21st century are becoming more postmordernism is that, as games are having more of a real expereince, is that attracting more of the public to play those games?
Grand theft auto is the most highest rated PS3 games of all time due to its realism and gameplay quality, the graphics of the game is smooth and the contents is a variety, so by grand theft having all this, is this atracting more game players to play the game, plus with its multiplayer content.

This can also be raised with the call of duty franchise, which each of the Call of duty that was made, they improved it in terms of content and multiplayer, the storylibe has also has improved as well, the instituion that is involved with call of duty, which is infinity ward, they want their games to feel as real as possible, by this it will get more fans playing the game, and by that make more money as lots of people will be playing the game.


Another debate that is raised that also links to the thoery of postmordernism is the 'Video game controversy' which is discussed as video games maintaining a voilent, sexual and graphic imagery within them and by so doing it can have a impact on the audience, for example the ps2 game 'Manhunt' it was prevented from going into a third installment, due to the contents of the game being extremely violent that a 15 year old killed his grandparents due to wanting to imitate the kills moves of manhunt.
The video game controversy also states that the content of video games like voilence and nudity can send of a bad message, for example:

On June 7, 2003, 18-year-old American Devin Moore shot and killed two policemen and a dispatcher after grabbing one of the officers' weapons following an arrest for the possession of a stolen vehicle. At trial, the defense claimed that Moore had been inspired by the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

By these sort of crimes being inspired by these games, its sending of the fact that you could do these things in real life and that could be a growing problem for the developers of the games.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversy