Abstrakt
This lecture presents in a 90-minute slot the actual concepts and approaches to the player’s ethical experience in advanced videogames. Special focus will be given to the issues of the justifiability of unethical content in the videogame medium from the perspective of the ethics of videogames.
The lecture’s theoretical reading will be accompanied by the multimedia presentation of the following commercial and serious videogame titles: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Manhunt, Postal 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, JFK Reloaded, Kuma War, Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, Under Siege, September 12th, Madrid and Global Conflicts.