My Personal Statement On My Birthday

On my fourteenth birthday, my friends, my mom, and I went to target so I could go pick out a video game for a birthday present. All my friends were telling me to get the brand new Call of Duty and how it was so amazing and lifelike it was. My mother was very skeptical and knew very little of the game except the big letters ‘M for Mature’, written on the front. After I begged and pleaded, she said sure and bought me the game. I played with my friends for hours on end putting no thought into what I was doing, until my dad was watching from the couch as I used a twelve gauge shotgun to blow a virtual players legs off or ordered attack dogs to hunt down and tear people apart. He was shocked that a company could get away with producing and selling a game like that. My dad, being a retired combat medic from the Vietnam War, sat me down after seeing that and said “Alex, war is not something that can be glorified and should not be taken lightly”. After talking with me I knew that even though I and my friends were enjoying ourselves shooting each other online, there is more to war than pure violence and destruction. Games like ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Battlefield’ show inaccurate descriptions of war and how they mislead consumers to believe that war is glorified and you as a character are a super solider of good fortune.

‘Call of Duty’ is a world renounced franchise that attracts millions of people to play. Known for being a fast paced military simulator, people can step away from their own reality and become solider in a different country conducting black operations or be a private landing on the beaches of Okinawa in world war two. The game series is famous for lifelike realism and ground breaking effects. It is also known for showing the gl...

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Since 2003, the franchise ‘Call of Duty’, has become a worldwide best seller is known for is fast paced action and life like realism. But the game does not accurately depict how the real military operates and how real soldiers operate. In more recent years the games have been growing towards a much younger audience and give a false sense of how real combat works. War in the games are shown as a glorified conflict with the player being a super solider capable killing dozens of people. People playing game have a false sense of how real wars are fought and how they affect real people. The games of course do not 100 percent represent real life, but they do give people ideas about how soldiers think and how they function and a game does not reflect the real life implications that soldiers go through.