Hey guys, I'm doing a project for school involving videogame violence and I need people to fill out my survey for me. It should only take about 20 minutes at the most to complete it. You can just reply with your response in a post or you can PM me with your response if you dont want others to see it. And please, no joking around in the responses. And if you have any problems please let me know. Thanx in advance :bow:

Here it is:

Video Game Violence Survey

This is a survey that will test your interpretation of the violence in video games. You will need to first watch the gameplay video of the specific game before giving it a rating. You do not need to watch the entire video for each game, which are about 3 minutes long at the most, just watch enough to get a good view of the content in the game. But if you have already played that particular game or seen footage of it, then you are not required to watch the video. Then you will pick the overall rating that you feel applies to that game. Then choose the appropriate descriptors that you feel applies to the game. If you already know the rating that was given to the game by the ESRB, then disregard it and only give the ratings that you feel are appropriate. The Overall Ratings and Descriptor guides are given first, and then you will respond in the response section.

The Overall Ratings (Please choose only one for each game)

EARLY CHILDHOOD
Titles rated EC (Early Childhood) have content that may be suitable for ages 3 and older. Contains no material that parents would find inappropriate.
EVERYONE
Titles rated E (Everyone) have content that may be suitable for ages 6 and older. Titles in this category may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language.
EVERYONE 10+
Titles rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and older) have content that may be suitable for ages 10 and older. Titles in this category may contain more cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes.
TEEN
Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.
MATURE
Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
ADULTS ONLY
Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.

The Descriptors (Please choose all that apply for each game)

Animated Blood - Discolored and/or unrealistic depictions of blood
Blood - Depictions of blood
Blood and Gore - Depictions of blood or the mutilation of body parts
Cartoon Violence - Violent actions involving cartoon-like situations and characters. May include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted
Fantasy Violence - Violent actions of a fantasy nature, involving human or non-human characters in situations easily distinguishable from real life
Intense Violence - Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons and depictions of human injury and death
Mild Violence - Mild scenes depicting characters in unsafe and/or violent situations
Sexual Violence - Depictions of rape or other violent sexual acts
Violence - Scenes involving aggressive conflict

Response Section (Please click on link beside game to view gameplay video, and fill out all fields that are followed by a colon)

Age:
Are you a parent:

Dead or Alive 4 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lbmNhyHo1k )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

Mortal Kombat ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxUX7YeYlU )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

Which is More Violent, Dead or Alive 4 or Mortal Kombat:

GTA San Andreas ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qMqxgZwOI )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

True Crime ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIoNI2Qolko )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

Which is More Violent, GTA San Andreas or True Crime:

Call of Duty 2 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVlNk_6BOM )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

Halo 2 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmO1rHo-Hc )
Overall Rating:
Descriptors:

Which is More Violent, Call of Duty 2 or Halo 2:

Oh CRAP!!, I just found out today that I'm gonna need my participants to sign a form, so unless you can find a way to get a signed form back to me through the internet, then the survey will not count :sadwalk:

when is it due? i can scan my signiture in my scanner and take the survey tonight

Can you scan mine?

you should include movies of doa4 endings cuz some have a lil nudity, which definitely contributes to the rating of it

if i could get a picture of your signiture, you can. but that defeats the purpose o.0 if you can get it in picture form, MS Paint it into a smaller size and insert into MS Word...

First of all, glad to see that you guys are interested :yes:
Its not due till Oct 31, but i can still accept surveys after that anyway.
I'll try to get the form up in the next couple of days, but you can still take the survey and give me your responses untill then.

Oh and to answer your question smartguy, my project is only dealing with the violence in the games and not sex

Hey! This is similar to the editorial I'm writing for English III! I'll show you guys once I finish it ^^

Here is the Disclaimer that you will need to somehow get signed, by scanning it or some other way:


Interpretation of Video Game Violence Disclaimer

This project will examine the interpretation of the violent content in video games among participants. The survey will take approximately 10 to 20 minutes to complete. The participants will view videos containing excessive violent content including: Fighting, Blood and Gore, Gun Violence, and Weapon Violence. These videos may cause psychological trauma to those who are “weak of heart” or affected by scenes of excessive violence.
If you agree to these terms, then sign below


Signature:________________________________________________________

you know, you gotta love MS Paint, it makes things so difficult >.< there is my signature with printed name. just save the pic and insert it in word to crop it. with that text in your last post, all you need is copy and paste work. its all good.

also, i have homework is killer to my ELEC. classes, so ima pool your survey in with said homework. i should be done sometime Saturday night, that is my intention.
(and i was invited to go to the state fair Saturday too ;_; woe is me)

i did say i would get my answers in on Saturday. here they are. my answers are in bold and colors (easier on the eyes).
I did watch every second of the videos. ima stay true to the project and watch it 100%. after all, how can you review a game if you don't know all about it :yes:




Age: 18
Are you a parent: no

Dead or Alive 4
Overall Rating: TEEN
Descriptors: Fantasy Violence, Mild Violence
Well, we are talking about DOA4 here. There is fighting and the ladies do wear clothes that show skin (Christie and Kasumi being heavy hitters). There is no blood and the weapons are NOT used in the fighting, so that helps keep the rating down. The game is set in a fantasy world with ninjas that can do magic and all sorts of technological advancements.
The fantasy violence, sexual tones, and lack of blood make the game for teens. The sexuality isn't blatant, no blood and gore , and violence isn't great; these factors keep it from being rated M.

Mortal Kombat
Overall Rating: MATURE
Descriptors: Blood and Gore, Fantasy Violence, Intense Violence
MK is the heavy hitter of violence. MK was one of the games the government picked out to make the ESRB, so it is like a legend. MK is a fighting game were you have to beat your opponent, varying from monks to ninjas to cyborgs to demons, and at the end of your match, you 'finish him/her' by fatality, always violent. Put in the mix blood spewing from the opponent after you lay a hit on them with an ax or sword and that turns up the gore. And in the video, Scorpion got thrown into grinders, a pretty obvious sign of gore (the camera also panned to the wall to see the... results of the action)
Lets face it, MK is bloody, violent, and if you look up Gore in the dictionary, you will be redirected to MK. It would be a crime to make the game 13+ with all that goes on in the game. It is an obvious M.

Which is More Violent, Dead or Alive 4 or Mortal Kombat: Mortal Kombat hands down. We are talking about violence here and MK delivers it like a FedEx delivery. DOA4 is more fantastic fighting with minor violence and no blood. MK is the polar opposite of that. Blood, gore, violence all wrapped up in a neat bow.


GTA San Andreas
Overall Rating: MATURE
Descriptors: (i didn't see blood so i cant include it) Intense Violence, Mild Violence
GTA had some pretty obvious violence, the drive-byes were a nice example. You have guns to shoot people, blunt weapons to beat on people, you ran over people with vehicles, and (it wasn't in the video) GTA: SA has that infamous Hot Coffee Mod. GTA also has drugs and the game lets you do crimes. You can just walk up to someone with a weapon and maul them if you please. The game isn't for little kids. GTA earns the M rating with flying colors.

True Crime
Overall Rating: MATURE
Descriptors: Cartoon Violence, Fantasy Violence, Mild Violence, Sexual Violence (Hot Coffee Mod)
Take GTA and flip the roles, you are the cop. You are a cop, you can arrest people. This GIVES you the option of being peaceful; but usually (about 90%) of the suspects don't want to go in peacefully. That is where the violence sets in. You can arrest people by beating them down (i know from LA you have neutralizing shots) or shooting them. There is fighting and crimes galore. Not to mention some 'innocent' people can carry concealed gun and can openly attack you if they feel threatened. You can take cars, like in GTA, whenever you please! It is clear, True Crime is pretty violent.

Which is More Violent, GTA San Andreas or True Crime: Generally, they are even. But this is a project, so you want the nitty gritty and the hard facts. Both games are very similar, the only differences being which side of the law you are on and the variety of violent things you can do. San Andreas has a wider range for potential violence and has the mod. The true answer is that GTA is more violent, it just has more of it.


Call of Duty 2
Overall Rating: TEEN
Descriptors: Cartoon Violence, Intense Violence,
The only violent things happening in the game are grenades going off and bullets flying all around. That was the backbone of WWII, in which the game is set in. In the video, the player had, and did, the act of killing a wounded enemy in cold blood. You could have left him be, especially since he didn't look like he wanted to fire back at you. Or he could have, the resolution wasn't good enough to tell.
The point is, the game was set in a war and it brings it. Dead bodies on the roads, killing enemies just to advance, it is real life military brought to you through the game.
Blood might be an issue, the the video doesn't show it. It is hard to see blood with bullets buzzing by your ears and the dead body being 30, 40 feet away (a lot of the shots were long distance). I didn't see any, so i cant mark it in. But the action makes up for it.

Halo 2
Overall Rating: TEEN
Descriptors: Animated Blood, Blood, Fantasy Violence
Halo 2 brings you killings aliens with real life military weapons. Now being that you bash aliens and not humans, the game could actually be dropped to 10+. i am pretty sure 3rd/4th graders know the difference between a human being and an alien life form. But i cannot back that statement, so it has to be bumped to T. Aliens bleed, they can, just like marines (no matter how cool they are, they still get injured).
Other than alien shooting, weapons, and the blood from dead bodies, nothing is bad. the rest is sci-fi

Which is More Violent, Call of Duty 2 or Halo 2: Getting right down to the answer is hard; it depends on how you want to view the games respectively. Both haves have the basic kill or be killed. In CoD2 you are killing fellow humans. In H2, you are killing aliens. Killing aliens isnt all that real you you cant walk outside and attack an alien thats walking down the street. Halo 2 is too fictional to be more violent in this case. Like this, CoD2 is more violent
On the other hand, the game is dog eat dog; you shoot or be shot. that in-and-of itself is violent. This makes both games pretty even.
In final, my personal opinion is that Call of Duty 2 is more violent. But there is the chance someone else could say different.


Hope this helps

i thought halo2 was rated M

Thanx :bow: a lot ninja_thug for your help, You didnt need to write your comments on the games, but I'm glad you did :) , it really helps :yes:

But you put Sexual violence on True Crime and you said it was because of the Hot Coffee Mod. Maybe you just got them mixed up cuz the Hot Coffee mod was in GTA San Andreas, do you want me to change that for you

yea, i must have put that in the wrong spot, sorry about that
:rofl: man, i wonder how that happened. i even put HCM in my descrip. if GTA and it is still in the wrong spot @_@