Ethics of Digital Games

From the three games we discussed in the class, they are America's Army/ Under Seige, Doom & Postal and Remission respectively.

They are three different types of game;
America's Army is a kind of first-person shooter war game. Players become a soldier in the game and carrying with a gun to kill the enemies so as to win the games;

Doom & Postal is a first person game too. In such games, player is allowed to move freely in a particular area/ city. And they are allow to break the surrounding objects, kill the people with different weapons and even set fire on cars. This kind of games in some way do not have the rules to win the games;

Remission is a shooting game that players are ask to enter the human body, and remove all the germs and virus so as to cure the patient. It is educational indeed to the kids and players because it's purpose is positive and not bloody.

Therefore, I think the best one is Remission as the player is curing one another rather than killing someone, you can treat the game as a treatment to the patient; while the worst one os Doom & Postal, the main purpose of the game idea is to ask player to kill,to destroy, to ruin the surroundings. The concept of  it is awful and disgusting.

About the other question we discussed in the lecture, I would like to repeat Tracy's favorite game. It is the Sims 3! She mentioned that she could build a house by her preference and let her Sims live. It is lovely and fun to her. Besides, the concept of the games is greatly different from other type of games, player can control their Sims liberally, for example, to ask them to get a job, satisfy so as to create a "life" to their Sims.

P.s. the Sims series has launched the Sims 4 this summer, and here is a short clip for it!