about influence of video games on health, mentality and outlook of the person began literally at once after emergence of the very first and primitive interactive entertainments. And if first when a game industry only gained steam, researches in this area had more or less objective character, then during an era when sales of video games began to compete successfully with a box office of blockbusters of cinema, it is very heavy to distinguish true data on influence of video games on people from the banal custom researches initiated by competitors or with political goals.
Issue of influence of video games on our life really very difficult and multilateral. Video games, as well as other sources of pleasure, unequally influence people with different strong-willed qualities. Weak-willed fans of video games cannot limit the stay in the virtual world for the same reasons as the fans of gamblings or people abusing alcohol. Besides, existence of various genres provides numerous options in a game industry of both positive, and negative impact on mentality of the person.
What harm can be done to a human body of the video game?
1.) Deterioration in sight. It is not dependent on whether you play on the personal computer or on the video game console, excessive pastime in front of screens of the computer or the TV will harmful affect your sight. To be fair It is necessary to tell that this threat also traps people who like to watch often telecasts or whose work is connected with constant use of the computer.
2.) Violations in mentality. For the last ten years there were many messages in news on similarity in Chicago the school student under an impression of a computer game shot the schoolmate or the resident of South Korea died because of a continuous four-day online game. Besides, you should not blame for the events only of the video game as people with unbalanced mentality could make similar acts and under an impression of the watched movie, the read book or for any other reason.
3.) Dependence. This problem is especially widespread among fans of role online games of similarity of World of Warcraft and Lineage ll. As above in article was already told, everything depends on the person. If to show the will power and to limit time spent behind these games to a reasonable limit, then no harm from them will exist.
4.) Problems with a bearing. Can arise only at a game in computer games, and that if is not present a qualitative computer chair.
Many people consider that the children spending the most part of the time of the house behind video games cannot normally develop and communicate with peers. It is possible to look at these arguments from the different parties: on the one hand, if instead of video games the child begins to play strongly sports or will go to some courses (for example, a foreign language) – it is really better. But if instead of video games the child begins to drink beer at entrances with shady characters, then … understand.
At the correct approach it is possible to benefit much from video games. For example, children of preschool age by means of games can gather fine motor skills, speed of visual and muscular reaction, to train zritelnuyupamyat, to the logician, razvitnavyk of deductive and inductive thinking, to create ear for music, and all this is in an unostentatious form.
Also various games involve various cognitive and perceptual skills of the person, and difference in development of these skills at those who prefer any given games, are noticeable even in the short term. Genre games develop an action at those who play them, the speed of cognitive processes. At those who prefer puzzles and puzzles skills of accuracy at thought processes develop. In role online games the players can perfect diplomatic skills on real people and if these people from other country – so also to increase the level of English.
Modern games can quite compete with textbooks from the school program. For example, playing strategy about World War II (Blitzkrieg series) or the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (Total War series) we not only we learn to make quickly decisions at the strategic and tactical level, but also we find the mass of interesting information on those temporary periods. And economic strategy (Caesar and Settlers series) will allow us to take the first steps in planning of economic activity, both on macro, and at the microlevel.
Shooters will help to remove nervous tension after the unlucky working day, will please with cinematic special effects and can develop our reaction to such level to which even the pilot of the jet plane would envy.
Video games also improve our imagination and improve our imagination. For example, plots of the most known role-playing games (the series The Elder Scrolls, Gothic, games from the world of Forgotten Realms, etc.) can compete with works by Tolkien on development of inner world and artful designs in the narration. Also, unlike literature or cinema, they give the chance to be present directly at the told story, to win back a role and to influence a plot that much more positive emotions bring.
And by means of video games it is possible to learn a foreign language effectively. Usually the publisher releases a game in the main European languages, but in practice except a game in English it is heavy to find something. Nevertheless, for persons interested to learn English of the video game are an excellent opportunity. Unlike literature or movies the player directly interacts with the events on the screen. If you found any subject in the video game, then you at the same time see both the image of this subject, and its correct writing, and sometimes and audiovossproizvedeny names of this subject. Besides in the majority of games the protagonist often repeats some phrases which are easily remembered. And subtitles which are present at each game will help you to watch closely the events on the screen if you still not really well perceive the foreign speech aurally. Even without understanding first the most part of language contents it is possible to understand intuitively what takes place at a certain stage or what operation it is necessary to perform, and repeated playing the game will allow to fix unfamiliar language designs in memory.