Shooting Video Games

Video games, Xbox shooter aficionados will contend, carry ratings that help to protect youngsters from untoward impressions and game play. The same is stated by those who enjoy PlayStation 2 shooter video games. Yet how would you feel if you knew that junior was playing shooter video games on Game Boy Advance while being in school? Would it bother you if a shooting video game made use of a real life tragedy in an effort to permit youngsters and other to recreate and relive the violence?

While not available as an Xbox video game, pariah shooters Harris and Klebold have been memorialized in downloadable Columbine shootings - video games. Brainchild of film director Danny Ledonne it is hard to tell if his creation of these downloadable shooting video games is done for shock value or if it done out of a deeper need for closure or perhaps to get something out of his system.

Considered by the most vehement critics to be little more than one of the free terrorist shooting video games, it is a single player role playing game which is freely available online for anyone who wishes to play and relieve the steps of the high school shooter video games style. While some video shooting games do little more than take the names of the shooters or the locations of the incidents themselves, this is one of the shooting video games that permit for a complete recreation of the events as they unfolded. In addition to the foregoing, those who decide to download and play Columbine shooting video games have the power to finish up what the Klebold and Harris left undone, adding more insult to injury.

It is interesting to note that those who hotly debated the merits or demerits of these downloadable shooting video games provided fodder for Ledonne to make another movie, and critics assert that to people like Ledonne the Columbine murders are little more than a springboard to fame and showcase his sociopath tendencies to see people as a big experiment rather than the living, breathing entities they are. Proponents of such shooting video games claim that it provides a sense of closure by being able to choose to let some of the players live rather than proceed in the attacks on them. Yet those who understand that the trivialization of violence is most likely to breed more violence are eyeing these offerings with sadness, disgust, and a lot of apprehension.