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My mum has managed to get hold of a PS3 for us but its gonna be a family pressie to all of us for Christmas, so Ive not told the kids but I am absolutely gaggin for it!
As much as I love the Wii I find that only the short games keep me occupied I prefer playstation for longer adventures.
Is PS3 also HD or blue ray or something? Can you really see the difference in quality with the games?
The PS3 is also a Blu Ray DVD player, but you need an HD outlet on your TV to watch them. Though you don’t need it for the graphics, I don’t have an HDTV or connection but the graphics are brilliant without!
Having HD probably would enhance it (might look into that soon but this digital switchover is complicating it a bit, might wait for that to happen first) but as it stands, I’m still very impressed.
Im not prepared to fork out for a HD tv yet either. Maybe in a few years they will go down in price just as recordable DVD players have.
By DOUGLAS GENTILE
Friday, February 20, 2004 – Page A19E-mail this Article
Print this ArticleSnipers. Rape. Cars targeting pedestrians. Heads exploding in a shower of gore.
These scenes can all be found in violent video games, and this month the Journal of Adolescence published several studies looking at their effects on youth. I was involved in one study (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, & Walsh, 2004). After looking at more than 600 Grade 8 and Grade 9 students, we found that playing a lot of violent video games was a serious risk factor linked with children’s anti-social and aggressive behaviour — even after controlling for the amount the children play, their gender and whether they have naturally hostile personalities. Surprisingly, even the kids who are not naturally aggressive are almost 10 times more likely, if they play a lot of violent video games, to get into physical fights than kids who do not.
Our study is only one of about 40 peer-reviewed, published studies that demonstrate that playing violent video games increases aggressive feelings and behaviours. These games are not the Pac-Man and Pong of earlier generations; as technology has advanced, violent video games have become extremely graphic (in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a man encounters a prostitute, has sex and then beats her to death to get his money back).
Although such ultraviolent video games carry an M (mature) rating, a recent study by the American Federal Trade Commission found that children can buy them easily. In a separate study of nearly 800 Grade 4 to Grade 8 kids, 87 per cent of boys reported that they play M-rated games, and one in five admitted that he had bought an M-rated game without parental knowledge.
As the research evidence about the negative effects of violent games become more compelling, parents, educators, and policy-makers are increasingly concerned about what to do. From my perspective, there are three pillars of responsibility: the video-game industry, the rental and retail industry and parents
(in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a man encounters a prostitute, has sex and then beats her to death to get his money back).
They forgot to say that the player can also choose not to do that should they wish. As for the rest, is it any worse than the majority of what you can see on TV or on a DVD?
Games, like films, aren’t real life. Might as well pull almost every 18 rated film off the shelves incase they fall into the wrong hands.
what a load of liberal tosspots.
I loved wrestling when I was young, especially Giant Haystacks.
Didnt mean I went out and belly-slammed some stranger….
Im sick of people looking for excuses for mindless thuggery.
Shifting the blame from the government again when it is their fault for forgetting family values and being more worried about catching speeding motorists and congestion charges.
Education, sport, family support, health. Where is the support for those 4 extremely important factors? With those four aspects of life properly focused on by the government and by parents and grown ups there would be a lot less crimes of violence.
But still the congestion charge and speed cameras bring in money dont they, and the innocents end up coughing up and feeling depressed. And they’ve not actually hurt anybody.
Its a fecked up society.
Im gonna go smash someone’s head in now.
And Giant Haystacks was one scary big man! Threatened to climb over the railings and batter all us ‘wee scottish bastards’ when the British wrestling came here years ago.
But then, we always did play wrestle and sometimes people got hurt – we made that choice knowing all the warnings that went out. I have it on good authority from my days at primary school too that the figure four leglock hurts like hell! But then, he didn’t submit so I couldn’t really do anything as referee. Squealing doesn’t count. That’s what happens when someone infilitrates my little group and befriends my best mate. I’ll get you back, but I won’t get my hands dirty :twisted:
Play GTA4 and get it outaya system john :wink:
After the football, which I’m lucky to be seeing at all.
Mon the Well.
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