Video Game Commentary: The Onion
The Onion is running an article that pokes fun at video game critics. Entitled New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior, the article details a fictional first-person game where players wander around a virtual warehouse stacking cardboard boxes. From the article:
To avoid any appearance of suggestive or adult situations, the graphics consist entirely of rectangular polygons rendered in shades of brown against a simulated gray cinderblock wall. The game is free-roaming inside the warehouse environment, meaning that no goals are set for stacking a certain number of boxes, nor is there a time limit for the stacking. The health-level bar remains at a constant peak, and the first-person perspective avoids the problem of players identifying too closely with the main character, whose name is never specified and to whom nothing actually happens.
Since cardboard boxes are already featured on TV, in movies, magazines, comics, and myriad other venues, the hypothetical game is already trans-media...
My favorite quote (from a supposed video game ethicist): "We could really use a good first-person stander game."
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