War in Video Games

This is a link to a popular video game website that involves modern-day war and allows the player to feel as if they are in a virtual combat.

Here’s a link to some other trailers of war video games.

In today’s technology age, we are faced with a whole new medium that illustrates war beyond stories, letters, photos and even videos. As weapon technology and combat tactics sharpen and advance, various video games are created parallel to actual war. Now, not only do soldiers witness and experience the atrocities of war, but anyone from the comfort of their own home can experience war to a certain degree. Time has proven the damaging psychological effects that live combat has on our country’s veterans, but now we are able to spread some of these negative effects unto many more citizens, even children. Personally, I think that only those who are fighting to defend our country should have to witness war, and the fact that people spend a lot of money and get a lot of enjoyment out of virtual war zones is sick.