Interactive Media Design: November 2008

I agree with the statements that the video gaming world is evolving because it is the Wii is having gamers get more active with their games so they can get more active and get healthier since the United States of America is the most Obese nation in the world. Most games are now having gamers getting more into the games with the Playstation “eye toy”. It has the users dance and try and hit different types of shapes to achieve points. With the XBOX 360’s Totem ball arcade game the gamer uses their arm as a bat to hit the balls and this is done by the Xbox Vision Cam.
Games have really progressed since the begging of it for example one of the first games ever created PONG which were to rectangles hitting a small little white box and today’s Gears of war 2 has the gamer as a futuristic soldier fighting an evil alien nation called the Locust and it has 3d art and design and blood, gore and the detail is so advanced each character has specs of dirt and other stuff on their clothes and face. Soon to come the next gaming generation will be virtual reality with life like characters that looks like you are watching reality. More than 200 American colleges are supporting the Video Game design because it is growing into a major occupational field that a lot of gamers want to get into. That is my summary over how Video games are good for the body, and mind because a lot are strategic and more of them are having the gamer get involved into it and how the concepts of gaming have changed dramatically.