Background Data

Before we get into the facts, there are a couple more bases to cover. Such as what kind of games are worse than others? Games are measured in two scales: degree of violence, and type of social promotion. Many often associate violent games with anti-social games, but not all violent games are purely anti-social. 

 

Let's compare the games Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. 

 

Both violent games that is extremely popular on the video game market. In the Call of Duty games, its violence “reflects a morally defensible intent to survive, or avoid death.” (Tear, Failiure to Demonstrate...) So while Call of Duty is violent, it is a game of survival. Grand Theft Auto, however, is a game of wanton violence upon defenseless civilians, law enforcement, and the occasional gangster here and there. Because of the immorality of the actions done in Grand Theft Auto, it is categorized as an anti-social game.