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I wrote recently about the need for violent video games on the Nintendo Wii and, for clarity, the main point of my message is us army all-american game that the Wii is a great platform for a game that has physical interaction.
It could be where you can pull a street sign from the ground and shove it into your enemy's head, or it could be a cooking game where you have to assemble a Gordon Ramsay-esque 10-course meal. The rape game point online multiplayer game is, the Wii has unique features that are well suited majoun game to violent games.
As to whether or rune factory game not game developers will make violent games for the Wii and if they will be big sellers is pajama game not my area of expertise. It's the underlying possibilities of the technology that I find interesting.
Violent video games on the Wii address decent3 pc game two specific Children S Game points:
1. Nintendo wants to sell more Wiis and games. Hardcore gamers are not buying Wiis
adventure mystery mac game a. I could make a couch-jockey/carpal tunnel joke, but the Wii doesn't have the graphics horsepower of other consoles or PCs. What it does have is the ability to use more than your thumbs ps3 game cheats to play a game.
2. The Wii brings a whole new level of human/game interaction that would be well suited to more adult/violent games
a. Wii baseball has a batting game. I'm not suggesting this is the same social context sling ice game as hitting some in-game enemy in the head, but I am saying fashion fits game it's pretty fun to hit stuff.
download video game designing software b. We all need more exercise
I figure if you can do one thing (hit a baseball) then you can do more things (hit an in-game enemy in shape shifter game on lin e the head). How nintendo ds lite game system that gets manifested into the game is a whole different story.
The comments and arguments around my previous post (in Political Simulation Game which I assert violent video free online family fued game games are cool) remind me of the Simpsons episode when Marge campaigns against Itchy and Scratchy.
I don't know if video game violence has an effect on children, and I'm not sure if I care. I write about software disruption, not social issues.
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Add a Comment (Log in or register) 7 comments by bardicbelle August onslaught game 15, 2008 11:33 AM PDT I have Godfather: Blackhand Edition already. You can garotte people, throw them over a ledge, bang their heads against a hard surface, strangle them... pretty violent and pretty physical. Pretty fun. Reply to this comment by asozasis August 16, vista game benchmarks 2008 2:20 AM PDT Mr Rosenberg is not a Fsx Boeing 777-200er Game moron. He is ignorant, ill-informed, unfeeling, neanderthalic, misanthropic and so narrow-minded he is almost certainly suffering from Asperger's Syndrome.
He should never have children and, if he already has spawned, they should be removed from his influence immediately.
No, he download freeware waitress game is not a moron, and he should use his considerable powers to identify gay computer game more useful ways to contribute to the society that has done so well by him. Reply to this comment View reply Hide reply
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by daverosenberg August 16, 2008 7:45 AM PDT @asozasis Nice same comment on both posts which you clearly haven't savage worlds game system read. I am going to send my army hexagon game of children to your house with cookies and copies of Grand the godfather the game Theft Auto. Reply to this comment by wedding-planning August 16, 2008 5:12 PM PDT Actually, the Wii is not nearly as suited to those kinds of games. Those games are generally high graphic games, involve considerably more processing power, and are not conducive to bubbles game animation or 'cartoony' looking characters.
hemroids Reply to this comment by Chill05 August 17, 2008 9:25 PM PDT 'No More Heroes' features gameplay where u hit a baseball to knock out goons. My point: it's been done, and there will probably be more. The Wii is, arguably, just getting started. Reply to this comment by Select-Foam September 7, 2008 9:28 PM PDT I don't think that those types of the free online game temple defence games are great for the WII, it features a much more inhibited processing core which is not capable of the fast speeds and rendering that the PS3 is capable of - Jeremy - memory foam mattresses Reply to this comment
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