Something for all you blood lusting Wii owners, it’s MadWorld by Platinum Games. With the drought of something worthwhile, MadWorld will delight all out there who owns a Wii. Carefully crafted by Platinum Games, the former developers of Clover Studio, you know it’s going to bring own the bacon.

MadWorld is stylized game, consisting of mainly three colors – if you haven’t guessed already. Taking the look from Sin City, MadWorld does it extremely well. The graphical presentation is nice, smooth and creamy; or rather, nice to look at as the spectrum is actually really fitting for the game. The game does a good job making the world, well Mad, as it seems to a broken down trash heap of no humanity left. The level design sports good variety as no two levels looks the same, giving out nice atmosphere to the bloodshed that is all around you. (continue reading…)

The following is a research paper I wrote for my final project in English.

Violent videogames have sparked controversy for the last 40 years, but do they really influence the people who play them? There has been an ongoing debate about this subject since the early 1990s. In this essay, I hope to shed some light on both sides of the argument as well as where I stand on the issue. First, let’s look at where this all started, and the history following that.

Violence in videogames has been an issue since 1976 with a video game called “Death Race”. The game was inspired by the 1975 film “Death Race 2000”, which had a cult following. The basic game play consisted of using a steering wheel and gas pedal to run over as many people as you can. When it was released, only about five hundred were made, and was banned just about everywhere. This was the first instance of violence in videogames being an issue.
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