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A Parent's Guide to Online Gaming, Part 1

The internet touches every aspect ofThey are First Person in the same since
your children's lives. Where you mightthat a story might be. That is, the
look up an unknown word in a dictionary,player sees the world through the eyes
your kids are more likely to use Whereof a single character and interacts with
you use the telephone, they use instantthe game environment as though he were
messenger. An even greater differencethat character. Shooter comes from the
can be found in how they play games.primary goal of most such games, the
Where the games of their parent'sshooting of whatever happens to be the
generation may have involved a board,bad guy. FPS games are among some of the
cards, or at their most sophisticated amost popular online. Common examples
console system, the games your childreninclude Doom, Battlefield:1942, and the
play on the net can be far more complex.X-Box game Halo. From a parental
They mine gold, spread empires, fightperspective, these games can be cause
dragons and aliens alone or with tens,for concern. They vary widely in the
hundreds, even thousands of their fellowamount of realism, degree of violence,
gamers. All of this makes for alanguage, and general attitude. The only
confusing mish mash of names, places,way to get a good idea of the content
jargon and lingo that can leave you withissues is to watch the particular game.
no idea what your kids are actuallyIf your kids don't want you watching
doing and a vague feeling of uneasinesswhile they play, then fire up the game
that some part of it might not be goodyourself sometime when they aren't
for them.around. There is a sizeable variation in
What's appropriate for your kids is ahow violent and how personal FPS content
decision only you can make. How muchcan be from game to game. The single
violence they are exposed to, how muchplayer portion of Halo, for example, has
time they spend in front of a screen andplayers fighting against alien invaders
how much contact they have with thewith largely energy weapons and a
faceless strangers so common to the netminimum of realistic human suffering. In
are all questions you must grapple withcontrast, WWII themed games tend to go
and, in the end, decide for your family.out of their way to show realistic
While we can't help you make these roughviolence. Given the subject matter, this
decisions, we can certainly help you getis appropriate for the game, but may not
the information you need to understandbe for your kids. Online play presents a
your children's hobbies better, both topotentially greater concern. The goal of
make informed judgments about what theyonline FPS games is almost always
should and should not be doing, and tokilling other players. While some games
help you reach into another part ofdo have various modes where this is a
their lives that may have previouslysecondary goal, all of them give the
seemed like something of a puzzle box.player a gun and encourage him to use it
The Easy Stuffon characters representing other people.
The simplest type of online game is theSimulated gore and the use of violence
sort of Flash or Java driven game thatagainst others to achieve goals may be
you generally see running inside yourthings you don't want your kids exposed
web browser. This type of game tends toto. Again, these are your decisions to
be relatively simple compared to themake, but we encourage you to make them
stand alone games discussed later.with as much information as possible.
Common examples include Bejeweled, Zuma,Talk to your kids. Find out what they
and Diner Dash. These games are almostthink, in their words, is going on in
universally single player and have nonethe game. Make sure they see the line
of the sort of violent or mature contentbetween what happens in the game and
that keeps parents up at night. Werewhat happens in the real world, between
they movies, they would be G Rated, withwhat it's okay to simulate and what it's
perhaps the occasional game stretchingokay to do. The answers may surprise
to PG. If this is the type of game youryou. If your children understand the
kids are into then first, be relieved.differences, see real violence as
Then, try the game out. Many of thesedeplorable and simulated violence as
games can be very enjoyable for even thepart of the game then FPS games, even
most casual of players. Some, such asonline ones, can be a perfectly healthy
Bookworm, even have genuine educationalway to have fun and let off steam. In
content. These games can be as much anthe end, it falls on you to make sure
opportunity for bonding and learning asthat what your child gets out of the
throwing around a baseball in thegame is good for him or her.
backyard, and have the added bonus ofNext time, we'll talk about RTS and
being much easier to get your kids toMMORPG, the two other common types of
sit down with you and play.commercial online game and touch on the
FPSs: Finding Something to Shoottwin demons of addiction and predation.
FPS stands for First Person Shooter.



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