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According to mass media, violent '''Violent video games teach ''' are [[video games]] that portray horrific virtual violence. Research suggests that teenagers playing these games may become desensitized to violent and encourage the players criminal acts.<ref>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/04/07/violent_video_games_held_to_be_free_speech?page=2</ref><ref>http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-- typically anderson.html</ref> In a particular study specifically children -- who were diagnosed with neurotic behavior and predisposition to engage in horrific virtual violenceaggression reacted to violent stimuli brought by video games, though not all of them showed aggressive behavior as a consequence. Examples include<ref>http://www.qj.net/Study-Violent-games-don-t-alter-normal-kids/pg/49/aid/88522</ref>

Examples of violent video games include: * [[Grand Theft Auto]] (series) -- The series, which now spans ten games, is considered a "sandbox" game where a player can roam around a virtual city at will. The player is able to obtain many different types of weapons, murder anyone they encounter including other criminals and prostitutes, innocent bystanders, and even police officers. One of the games also included a modification that allowed a player to engage in graphic sexual acts in the game; however this was not made for the public and was found long after the original release. * Doom and Quake are first person shooter games wherein a player roams around various levels killing various demonic creatures. While not appearing very violent compared to more recent FPS games, the games have been described as murder simulators and were blamed as inspiration for the Columbine Massacre as well as other [[Shooting#Alternative uses|school shooting]]s. * Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend (M-rated) -- The ads for this game first-person shooter boast that new weapons will enable you "to hack your enemies to meaty bits!" It involves a game character who commits violent acts against unarmed civilians. Other features in the Postal series include: urinating on people to make them vomit in disgust, using cats as shotgun silencers, and playing fetch with dogs using human heads.

* Resident Evil: 4(series) (M-rated) -- Game player uses a special blood-splattered chainsaw controller designed for playing the game, which includes Includes chainsaw decapitations and impalements, and characters zombies and other monsters ripping off other charactercharacters's throats and biting off their heads. A promotional chainsaw shaped controller was released with Resident Evil 4 for the Nintendo Game Cube.

* Manhunt(M-rated) -- Game player's character is James Earl Cash, a convicted serial killer facing execution. The execution is ordered to be faked so that a character named "The Director" can use Cash as a star in a series of snuff films. As the Cash character kills other characters, by suffocating them with a plastic bag, slicing them up with a chainsaw, shooting them point blank with a nail gun, stabbing them in the eyeballs with a glass shard, or beheading them with a cleaver, The Director makes sexually vulgar comments. The game has two difficulty settings: fetish and hardcore.

* God of WarFortnite (MTeen-rated) -- Game features disembowelmentA "battle royale" first person shooter where a player is placed on an island with 99 other players. The point of the game, mouth-stabbingas with any "battle royale" game, eyeis to "kill" the other players, and become the last man standing. The game uses a sort of arcade-gougingstyle of graphics, but the object is still to kill the other players, severed limbswhich can be slightly graphical. Of course, voice and human sacrificetext chat can also be used abusively.

However, studies have shown time and again that violent games tend to relax the players and cause less violent tendencies * God of War (As opposed to more mainstream and less controversial activities, such as footballM-rated). Nevertheless-- Game features disembowelment, video gamesmouth-stabbing, eye-gouging, severed limbs, like comics and other new forms of entertainment before (and surely after), are constantly under attack by the uninformed masseshuman sacrifice.

The Court * Silent Hill 1-4 -- large portions of Appeals for the [[Eighth Circuit]] declared this to be [[free speech]] these games involve roaming around decaying buildings and struck down a [[Minnesota]] law that prohibited minors from purchasing or renting video games bearing a "Mature" or "Adult Only" rating.<ref>''Entm't Software Ass'n v. Swanson'', 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5634 (8th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008).</ref> However, all major chains refuse beating hideously malformed humanoid monsters to carry AO-rated games and enforce the checking of IDs for M-rated gamesdeath with blunt instruments.

The Court of Appeals for the [[Eighth Circuit]] declared this to be [[free speech]] and struck down a [[Minnesota]] law that prohibited minors from purchasing or renting video games bearing a "Mature" or "Adult Only" rating.<ref>''Entm't Software Ass'n v. Swanson'', 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5634 (8th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008).<references/ref>

== Sources See also==* [[Non-Violent Video Games]]* [[Video games]]* [[Left Behind: Eternal Forces]], a Christian game that many liberals falsely accused of being very violent and promoting "converting or killing unbelievers"

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