| Shooting games have been drawing everybody's | | | | video game play changes the way our brains |
| attention and nowadays, they are much popular | | | | process visual information," as stated by |
| than ever before. Such kind of genre not only | | | | Daphne Bavelier (professor, The Brain and |
| adds thrill to the gaming but they also have | | | | Cognitive Sciences). He adds that such games |
| many knock-on effects. Video games, being | | | | might push the human sensory system to some |
| invented for fun, provided more than fun and | | | | higher limits and the brain gets adjusts to |
| with the help of latest and advanced | | | | it and this learning then carry-forward into |
| technology, shooting games have redefined the | | | | other activities and perhaps everyday life. |
| gaming experience. With heart-throbbing sound | | | | |
| effects and classic graphics, the player gets | | | | Psychiatrists also admit that such shooting |
| lost into another world where there is | | | | games make mind alert and a player starts |
| nothing other than the passion to accomplish | | | | thinking in different ways. In other words, |
| the mission by walking over dead bodies of | | | | the capacity of the brain to have |
| the enemies and totally destroyed enemy tanks | | | | multidimensionality significantly increases. |
| and airplanes! | | | | Let us look at one simple example; at one |
| | | | particular point, a main character of the |
| Many of the parents might blame shooting | | | | action game comes and immediately gets shot |
| games since they think that they do spoil | | | | and then dead. It happens once, twice or more |
| their children and children learn nothing out | | | | than that but then, the player starts |
| of it. In fact, they lose their study and | | | | thinking about the loopholes. The brain |
| become irresponsible. Of course, this is true | | | | starts thinking in a multidimensional way and |
| but provided if kids are out of control and | | | | tries to read between lines; where does a |
| are million miles away when their parents | | | | bullet come from? Who shoots and whence? He |
| shout at them. But then, is it a shooting | | | | thinks twice before stepping further at that |
| game that only brings such frustration? Isn't | | | | point and uses the crosswire or latest |
| it possible that a kid listening to the music | | | | binocular and finds out that butthead and |
| or watching movie might ignore such | | | | baaanggg!!! Finish!!! Watch the brain's |
| instructions too? Meaning to say that, when | | | | activity here; it was thinking so normal and |
| it comes to obedience, it lies 'in kid' and | | | | everything could come right in the way, but |
| not the tool he is playing with! | | | | the loss of life makes brain to work hard and |
| | | | to get a breakthrough!!! |
| Let us see one hardcore fact that we were | | | | |
| unaware of till it was issued in public | | | | All-in-all, shooting games do have many other |
| interest! A study by researchers at the | | | | benefits but it all depends on the player how |
| University of Rochester revealed that people | | | | they take it and how the utilize. You got |
| who play shooting cum action video game for a | | | | hydrochloric acid with you; now you can |
| few hours a day over the course of one month | | | | invent some wonderful chemical out of it or |
| showed improvement their functioning in eye | | | | simply can burn clothes! |
| examinations by about 20 per cent. "Action | | | | |