By Alicia Hollinger
Los Angeles, CA (Pop CultureToday) 6/10/2013 – While girls just wanna have fun, apparently boys just wanna kill. Or so it seems from the new line-up of games announced at the Microsoft press conference today at E3. If you wonder why the crowd at E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center is usually about 98% male, it's probably because sometimes it feels as if one is entering a war zone. Gunshots, explosions and blood, oh my! But obviously it's what sells because each year, there is more. Violent games are into double digits in sequels and getting more sophisticated and realistic each year. I was told a few years ago by a representative of a war game company that the military actually recruits from the online performance of players of its game. Funny, if it ended up being a 90 year-old grandma getting those high scores...
The Microsoft XBox press conference opened with a presentation of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for XBox One. This game takes you into Afghanistan with all the super-realistic fun and thrills of going to war without the risk of actual death or loss of limbs and promises "deeper stealth action," while Ryse "Son of Rome" takes you back in time, allowing you to fight as a leader of men in the Roman Empire, and Wargaming's World of Tanks, is well, fighting in tanks. And then there is Dead Rising 3, a blood-filled zombie fighting game where "anything and everything is a weapon" and "the world is filled with hundreds of weapons." Witcher 3 Wild Hunt boasts a multi-region open world and dynamic and tactical combat. And more shooting and killing in Battlefield 4, Second Assault....
Los Angeles, CA (Pop CultureToday) 6/10/2013 – While girls just wanna have fun, apparently boys just wanna kill. Or so it seems from the new line-up of games announced at the Microsoft press conference today at E3. If you wonder why the crowd at E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center is usually about 98% male, it's probably because sometimes it feels as if one is entering a war zone. Gunshots, explosions and blood, oh my! But obviously it's what sells because each year, there is more. Violent games are into double digits in sequels and getting more sophisticated and realistic each year. I was told a few years ago by a representative of a war game company that the military actually recruits from the online performance of players of its game. Funny, if it ended up being a 90 year-old grandma getting those high scores...
The Microsoft XBox press conference opened with a presentation of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for XBox One. This game takes you into Afghanistan with all the super-realistic fun and thrills of going to war without the risk of actual death or loss of limbs and promises "deeper stealth action," while Ryse "Son of Rome" takes you back in time, allowing you to fight as a leader of men in the Roman Empire, and Wargaming's World of Tanks, is well, fighting in tanks. And then there is Dead Rising 3, a blood-filled zombie fighting game where "anything and everything is a weapon" and "the world is filled with hundreds of weapons." Witcher 3 Wild Hunt boasts a multi-region open world and dynamic and tactical combat. And more shooting and killing in Battlefield 4, Second Assault....
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
World of Tanks XBox 360 Edition
Ryse: Son of Rome
Dead Rising 3
Battlefield 4: Second Assault
Quantum Break, a new game exclusive to the XBox One, at least has a female protagonist and a compelling sci-fi premise about a "desperate hero who has survived a failed science experiment that broke down time."
Quantum Break
Project Spark for XBox One and Windows 8 also seems to offer a bit more than pure violence, allowing users to create their own worlds, characters and essentially, their own game. Everything "has a brain that can be changed." You can turn a rock into a pet, morph it later into a rock man or "rock-mech." This game allows players to use their imagination, creating everything from detailed terrains to "flying goblins" if they so choose.
Project Spark
The XBox One technology that makes use of "the Cloud" does allow for some amazing graphics though. Black Tusk from Vancouver joins the team with a new game, and the game-world staple, Halo, (now expanding its franchise with a Steven Spielberg live-action TV series,) also announced a new game for XBox One to hit in 2014. And lastly a new futuristic sci-fi shooter was announced, Titanfall. As cool as these new games are, they are definitely targeted toward a male audience and take advantage of the use of weapons and violence. It would have been nice to see at least one non-violent, more female friendly game...
Halo for XBox One
Titanfall
Titanfall
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