Virtual Reality

Published: July 25, 2007, 12:24 pm

Picture this: Middle East turmoil brought right to your game cube. Your mission: facilitate peace. Many of you familiar with my previous rantings re: Left Behind, Eternal Forces can probably imagine my annoyance when I initially heard about a new game called PeaceMaker. "Oh great, another cheesy game." Yet, PeaceMaker has sparked my interest. Imagine a positive, real-time game that, according to its website, "challenges you to succeed where others have failed." I like the sound of that. Perhaps this type of game would be an educational tool as well, accurately teaching child and adult players about the ins and outs of real, current world events. Or perhaps it will be filled with the same meaningless propaganda that we see on the news every night. But what do you think about allowing current situations to serve as story-lines for new games? Would playing a game about Middle East conflicts somehow desensitize us to the true horrors of the situation, or would it

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