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Arguments for video Games
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1976- DeathRace
One of the first widely accepted controversial video games was developer Exidy's 1976 title Death Race, in which players controlled cars that ran over pixelated representations of "gremlins". The game caused such an outcry that it was pulled from store shelves and profiled on 60 Minutes Year:1976
Population: 214,659,000
Total Crimes: 11,349,700 -
Postal
Unlike many other shooters where the mission is to survive against overwhelming odds, Postal encouraged manslaughter by requiring players to kill a certain percentage of armed enemy hostiles per level using machine guns, shotguns, mines, Napalm launchers, and other brutal weapons. Year:1997
Population: 267,637,000
Total Crimes: 13,194,571 -
Dead Space
Dead Space requires that you destroy creatures via dismemberment by using a torch, rotary saw, plasma cutter, and other tools of the mining trade. The developer wanted to use blood at any time. Year: 2008
Population: 304,374,846
Total Crimes: 11,160,543 -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The "No Russian" level sees the player controlling an undercover CIA agent who joins a group of Russian terrorists to execute an airport massacre. Year: 2009
Population: 307,006,550
Total Crime: 10,762,956 -
God of War III
Kratos continued his murderous mission against the Greek gods in God of War III, the concluding chapter in the PlayStation 3' blood-soaked God of War trilogy. In the third one, everything became so much more intense and increasingly more violent. Year: 2010
Population: 309,330,219
Total Crime: 10,363,873 -
Bulletstorm
The game rewards players for not only for killing the enemy in traditional fashion, but shredding them with creative "Skillshots." Year: 2011
Population: 311,587,816
Total Crimes: 10,258,774 -
Mortal Kombat
It featured groin-shredding fatalities and new X-Ray moves that let you shatter bone, tear muscle, and destroy internal organs. Year: 2011
Population: 311,587,816
Total Crimes: 10,258,774 -
Proof of crime rate decreasing
