murd0c
08-13-2014, 10:48 AM
So this new game has been all over the news today and its kinda fun!!
Online game shows Skytrain rider gun down people on platform | News1130 (http://www.news1130.com/2014/08/13/online-game-shows-transit-user-gunning-down-people-on-platform/)
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Someone is playing on all the frustrations caused by the recent service disruptions on SkyTrain by letting you play a disgruntled passenger mowing down people on the platform.
The game is called Main Street Massacre and it’s not going over very well with transit users in Vancouver. It stars a character named “Mack,” a construction worker who’s having a bad day. The cheque cashing store is about to close, and the SkyTrain keeps stopping and starting. Face flushing with anger, he pulls out a gun and that’s when you can start shooting.
Despite a lot of smiles, chuckles and eye-rolls from people along the Broadway corridor, no one really approved.
Brenda doesn’t think it is an appropriate way to vent frustrations about SkyTrain service.
“I’m not a big fan of gory games and this is along the same lines. Any sort of bloodletting or anything like that… I’m not a big fan,” she tells News1130.
“Entertainers, game designers and all these different people should be responsible for what they create and do,” adds Philip. “They’re telling people that it’s okay to do this, and it’s not. It should be against the rules of our society.”
Wildman Industries is listed as the game’s producer, though it’s not clear if it’s a real company.
The game has surfaced several weeks after two major glitches on the SkyTrain left people stranded for a couple of hours.
Transit Police says it is aware of the game and it’s in the process of reviewing it to determine if any “police-related issues come to light.”
TransLink says the game isn’t in the “public interest.”
Expert weighs in
While the game will be criticized by many people, the host of the technology and entertainment show The Electric Playground says it deserves to have the same creative freedom that society grants for violent movies and even ancient plays.
“They’re interactive and yes they let you ‘live’ through some dark stuff,” Victor Lucas says of violent video games. “Some of it’s fantasy, some of it can be hyper real. But I also feel like it’s an art form. Like any art that’s out there in the world, there needs to be an amount of freedom of expression.”
Lucas reference’s Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and even ancient plays like Oedipus Rex, both of which are largely celebrated in popular culture, despite depicting incredible violence.
Online game shows Skytrain rider gun down people on platform | News1130 (http://www.news1130.com/2014/08/13/online-game-shows-transit-user-gunning-down-people-on-platform/)
http://msm.wildmanindustrie.netdna-cdn.com/
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Someone is playing on all the frustrations caused by the recent service disruptions on SkyTrain by letting you play a disgruntled passenger mowing down people on the platform.
The game is called Main Street Massacre and it’s not going over very well with transit users in Vancouver. It stars a character named “Mack,” a construction worker who’s having a bad day. The cheque cashing store is about to close, and the SkyTrain keeps stopping and starting. Face flushing with anger, he pulls out a gun and that’s when you can start shooting.
Despite a lot of smiles, chuckles and eye-rolls from people along the Broadway corridor, no one really approved.
Brenda doesn’t think it is an appropriate way to vent frustrations about SkyTrain service.
“I’m not a big fan of gory games and this is along the same lines. Any sort of bloodletting or anything like that… I’m not a big fan,” she tells News1130.
“Entertainers, game designers and all these different people should be responsible for what they create and do,” adds Philip. “They’re telling people that it’s okay to do this, and it’s not. It should be against the rules of our society.”
Wildman Industries is listed as the game’s producer, though it’s not clear if it’s a real company.
The game has surfaced several weeks after two major glitches on the SkyTrain left people stranded for a couple of hours.
Transit Police says it is aware of the game and it’s in the process of reviewing it to determine if any “police-related issues come to light.”
TransLink says the game isn’t in the “public interest.”
Expert weighs in
While the game will be criticized by many people, the host of the technology and entertainment show The Electric Playground says it deserves to have the same creative freedom that society grants for violent movies and even ancient plays.
“They’re interactive and yes they let you ‘live’ through some dark stuff,” Victor Lucas says of violent video games. “Some of it’s fantasy, some of it can be hyper real. But I also feel like it’s an art form. Like any art that’s out there in the world, there needs to be an amount of freedom of expression.”
Lucas reference’s Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and even ancient plays like Oedipus Rex, both of which are largely celebrated in popular culture, despite depicting incredible violence.