On my fourteenth birthday, my friends, my mother and I went to the target so I could choose a video game for a birthday present. All my friends were telling me to get the newest Call of Duty and how awesome and realistic it was. My mother was very skeptical and knew very little about the game except the large letters "M for Mature" written on the front. After I begged and pleaded, he said yes and bought me the game. I played with my friends for hours without thinking about what I was doing, until my dad watched me from the couch as I used a twelve-gauge shotgun to blow off a virtual player's legs or ordered attack dogs to give chase and tear people to pieces. apart. He was shocked that a company could get away with producing and selling such a game. My father, being a retired combat medic from the Vietnam War, sat me down after seeing this 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 my friends and I enjoyed shooting each other online, there is much 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 into believing that war is glorified and that you as a character are a super soldier of good luck. "Call of Duty" is a world-famous franchise. which attracts millions of people to play. Known for being a fast-paced military simulator, people can step away from their reality and become a soldier in another country conducting covert operations or be a private landing on the beaches of Okinawa during World War II. The game series is famous for its realistic realism and groundbreaking effects. It is also known to show mental side effects such as insomnia and suicide in some extreme cases. Since 2003, the "Call of Duty" franchise has become a worldwide best-seller is known for fast-paced action and realistic realism. But the game does not accurately depict how real military personnel operate and how real soldiers operate. In more recent years the games have grown towards a much younger audience and give a false sense of how real combat works. War in games is shown as a glorified conflict where the player is a super soldier capable of killing dozens of people. People who play games have a false idea of how real wars are fought and how they affect real people. Games obviously don't represent 100% real life, but they give people ideas about how soldiers think and how they function and a game doesn't reflect the real life implications soldiers go through..
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