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Call of Duty is player’s best guide on how to become a war machine. This game will show players ways of killing their enemies. The easiest and the most efficient way to get a player on the path to chaos and mayhem. Lose all feelings and enjoy the view of the gushing blood. This game offers more than violence; it offers knowledge on how to use weapons and how to become a ruthless killer. This game can transfer all the hate and violence to players and destroy their lives. Players can never run away from the game because the developers will make something new to feed player’s addiction. Once gamers are playing the game, they can never quit.
Call of duty recruits people every day and sends them to war. Every minute, squads are sent to their death on the battlefields. A never-ending cycle of life and death, die and come back to life just to kill more. Killing is the only thing that players do in the game. No purpose is given to kill, just a big inventory of weapons to suit player’s fantasies of killing people. All type of weapons is close to player’s grasp. Blowing them up to small pits or shooting them down, it’s all up to the gamer. Call of Duty can teach players about everything in war. Every strategy and every method in killing people. Gamers can use all type of weapons, old, modern and even futuristic. The game will give guides on how to use weapons of mass destruction. Thanks to the game a lot of people are experts with guns nowadays. Sandy hook elementary school teacher Mr.Wlasuk said: “The kids who play these games know all about [guns]. I'm not blaming the games for what happened. But they see a picture of a historical gun and say, "I've used that on Call of Duty” "(Hartley-Parkinson, Par.5).
Most players of Call of Duty are teenagers even though the game is mature rated. The game can damage the brain if players play a lot. Teenagers can be violent if they play it without moderation. Some parents are fine with their kids playing M rated games like Call of duty, but the costs can be big. Personalities of a teenager can be damaged by the game; it will turn them to a violent monster that can do vicious things to people or even their parents. Noah crooks is a kid that resembles a living example on how Call of Duty can destroy lives and cause people to become something they never wanted to be. The game turned Noah’s life upside down and now it’s all over for thirteen years old. Noah killed his mother because she took away the game after she noticed her son playing the whole day. “I feel crazy and I know I'm not. I think I have some form of ADD,' Crooks told the 911 operator. 'I tried to rape her. I tried to rape her but I couldn't do it. 'Who tries to rape their own mom? My life is down the drain now.” (Usher, Par.5).
Some other example is Adam Lanza, but this time he didn’t only kill his mother like Noah did. Adam killed twenty-six people in Sandy hook elementary school. Six people were adults and twenty innocent kids. Reports shows that he was playing Call of Duty the whole night as a preparation. Adam spent sixteen hours per day playing the massive online game of killing. The weapons this Call of Duty player used are real life copy of his in game weapons. He added the same exact attachment just to kill people in real life like he did in the video game. “He even bought a special gun sight used on the game, attaching it to the hunting rifle he used for his deadly rampage on Utoya” (Hartley-Parkinson, Par.9). He started the massacre by killing his mother in bed and then driving her car to the elementary school that she worked at. In the end of the massacre, he killed himself. The whole massacre had no purpose. The killer was obsessed with killing because of the game. The game gave him a false idea of life and killing people. A mix of the virtual world and reality. A misleading picture about the world and how to live in peace (Hartley-Parkinson, Par.7).
Infinity Ward are the makers of Call of Duty, have smart ways of getting people to play the game. The game has a long series that started in 2004. Every Christmases season the developers would create a new Call of Duty game. They always put new things like maps, weapons and new killing methods. People will play for months and then wait for a new part to come out just to play all over again. When the first game went popular the company sold 1,750,000 copies. The number keeps growing dramatically and more players are buying the game just to check all the new features. Infinity Ward used the fact that people will buy anything that is related to Call of Duty and started to make the game suitable for all gamers. The company sold 14,500,000 units of the new Call of Duty game just in the United States. The numbers of buyers never declined and the game continues to grow. Reasons for the game to be addictive are many. Biggest reason is the rewarding system in the game. People usually are happy when they get rewarded. “See, people love rewards, and Call of Duty is constantly giving out rewards to players. And rewards generally make our brains happy. In scientific terms, these small rewards cause dopamine levels in your brain to increase. And, typically, the higher your dopamine levels, the happier you think you are” (Why Is Call of Duty So Addictive? Par.4). The developers use that fact against gamers that like to play their game. The numbers will never go down and more will join the game. It can end more lives and destroy more families, if people don’t stop them from making more games.
The game can change personalities and make players become something they never thought they would become. It’s all about violence and killing others without a purpose. The violence can be transferred to the players and gives them a misleading idea about life. People turned against their families and killed innocent people. All proved that it was because of playing Call of Duty. More people are playing because the game is so addictive and developers will never let go of gamers, but will feed their hunger for satisfaction with things that their brain wants. Call of Duty is a disease that can wipe a person’s feelings and turn him into a senseless war machine.
Usher, William “CinemaBlend” Teen Killed His Mom Because She Took Away Call Of Duty 2012 , 10/07/2014
<http://www.cinemablend.com/games/teen-killed-his-mom-because-she-took-away-call-duty-55352.html>
Hartley-Parkinson, RICHARD “DailyMail” Did violent video game Call of Duty spark gun-crazed loner's killing spree? Adam Lanza 'spent hours with game just like Anders Breivik' 15 December 2012 , 10/07/2014
“CheatCC” Why Is Call of Duty So Addictive? 10/07/2014
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http://www.statisticbrain.com/call-of-duty-franchise-game-sales-statistics/
