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What Video Games Should You Recommend for Your Kids?
This page aims to guide you through the process of choosing good games for your children. Below is a list of my recommendations of video games that should and should not be played by them.
Three Video Games I Would Recommend
There are lots of great video games for children out there. The ones that I would recommend are listed below.
1. Boom Blox
Title: Boom Blox
Video Game Console: Nintendo Wii
Developers: EA Los Angeles
Publishers: Electronic Arts
Description: This puzzle game might be fun for, yet still give knowledge to, your children. In this game, you must hit blocks with a projectile, such as a bowling ball. Explosions that sometimes happen can look fantastic. There are many situations that require the player to think hard in order to win. If you buy this game, there's a chance your children might have better grades, but still be glued to the television.
Video Game Console: Nintendo Wii
Developers: EA Los Angeles
Publishers: Electronic Arts
Description: This puzzle game might be fun for, yet still give knowledge to, your children. In this game, you must hit blocks with a projectile, such as a bowling ball. Explosions that sometimes happen can look fantastic. There are many situations that require the player to think hard in order to win. If you buy this game, there's a chance your children might have better grades, but still be glued to the television.
2. EA Sports Active
Title: EA Sports Active
Video Game Consoles: Nintendo Wii
Developer: EA Vancouver
Publisher: EA Sports
Description: A video game that encourages children to get fit, EA Sports has the potential to make our world a place where no obese people reside in. An expansion named EA Sports Active: More Workouts was also released on November 17, 2009. Great game to buy if your children (and maybe even you, as it is possible to exercise with them) have gotten or are starting to get a little chubby.
Video Game Consoles: Nintendo Wii
Developer: EA Vancouver
Publisher: EA Sports
Description: A video game that encourages children to get fit, EA Sports has the potential to make our world a place where no obese people reside in. An expansion named EA Sports Active: More Workouts was also released on November 17, 2009. Great game to buy if your children (and maybe even you, as it is possible to exercise with them) have gotten or are starting to get a little chubby.
3. Big Brain Academy (Series)
Title: Big Brain Academy (Series)
Video Game Consoles: Nintendo DS (All Versions of DS) and Nintendo Wii (Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree)
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Description: Big Brain Academy is just the type of game you want for your children. It's pretty fun. The main thing you'll notice, of course, is the education, though. Big Brain Academy (both the sequel and original) is split into mini-games in which you must complete a certain task classified as one of the five classes in Big Brain Academy. They are Think, Analyze, Compute, Identify, and Memorize in the DS Version of Big Brain Academy, entitled Big Brain Academy. In Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, which is the title of the Wii Version of Big Brain Academy (a sequel to the DS Version), they are Identify, Memorize, Analyze, Compute, and Visualize. Feeling tired? Play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree on your Wii while sitting on your comfy couch. On the go? Play Big Brain Academy on your DS (or whatever version of it you have) while waiting for your mom to finish shopping (or your dad to finish trying out demos). Either way, the Big Brain Academy Series is one that definitely deserves to be recognized. It's fun, yet educational. The match that's not too often found!
Video Game Consoles: Nintendo DS (All Versions of DS) and Nintendo Wii (Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree)
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Description: Big Brain Academy is just the type of game you want for your children. It's pretty fun. The main thing you'll notice, of course, is the education, though. Big Brain Academy (both the sequel and original) is split into mini-games in which you must complete a certain task classified as one of the five classes in Big Brain Academy. They are Think, Analyze, Compute, Identify, and Memorize in the DS Version of Big Brain Academy, entitled Big Brain Academy. In Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, which is the title of the Wii Version of Big Brain Academy (a sequel to the DS Version), they are Identify, Memorize, Analyze, Compute, and Visualize. Feeling tired? Play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree on your Wii while sitting on your comfy couch. On the go? Play Big Brain Academy on your DS (or whatever version of it you have) while waiting for your mom to finish shopping (or your dad to finish trying out demos). Either way, the Big Brain Academy Series is one that definitely deserves to be recognized. It's fun, yet educational. The match that's not too often found!
Three Video Games I Would Not Recommend
Games can be bad for children. Listed below are a few of the unlucky ones.
1. Grand Theft Auto (Series)
Title: Grand Theft Auto IV
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows
Developers: Rock Star Toronto and Rock Star North
Publisher: Rock Star Games
Description: Grand Theft Auto IV follows Niko Bellic, a war veteran from Eastern Europe, came to America seeking the American Dream. However, he ends up in a world of gangs, crime, and corruption. A rather popular game among preteens (despite being rated Mature, or seventeen and up, by ESRB), this video game probably shouldn't be played by anyone, regardless of how fun it may be. All it (and the series, too) really teaches children is how to do bad things, such as drink and drive, join gangs, create crime, etc. Don't buy it for your children. If you do, you'll regret it forever. I'm serious. Just trust me.
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows
Developers: Rock Star Toronto and Rock Star North
Publisher: Rock Star Games
Description: Grand Theft Auto IV follows Niko Bellic, a war veteran from Eastern Europe, came to America seeking the American Dream. However, he ends up in a world of gangs, crime, and corruption. A rather popular game among preteens (despite being rated Mature, or seventeen and up, by ESRB), this video game probably shouldn't be played by anyone, regardless of how fun it may be. All it (and the series, too) really teaches children is how to do bad things, such as drink and drive, join gangs, create crime, etc. Don't buy it for your children. If you do, you'll regret it forever. I'm serious. Just trust me.
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
Title: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/DC Entertainment, and Square Enix (Japan)
Description: Following Batman, the Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, whatever you want to call him, as he ventures into Arkham Asylum, this very eerie game might give you nightmares. Asides from blood, violence, and the creepiness that may give you VERY bad ideas (suggestive themes), though, it's not really that bad. Just know that it's not exactly a game you want to buy for your children.
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/DC Entertainment, and Square Enix (Japan)
Description: Following Batman, the Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, whatever you want to call him, as he ventures into Arkham Asylum, this very eerie game might give you nightmares. Asides from blood, violence, and the creepiness that may give you VERY bad ideas (suggestive themes), though, it's not really that bad. Just know that it's not exactly a game you want to buy for your children.
3. Bully (Series)
Title: Bully
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Microsoft Windows (Bully: Scholarship Edition) and Sony PlayStation 2 (Bully)
Developers: Rockstar Vancouver (Sony PlayStation 2), Rockstar New England (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows), and Rockstar Toronto (Wii)
Publisher: Rockstar Games and Bethesda Softworks (Japan)
Description: In the first installment of this video game series, which follows Jimmy Hopkins, you are a bully. If that's not bad enough, you get to pick on other people, disobey school employees, do whatever you want to do during school hours, use weapons (that a schoolboy bully might have, such as a slingshot), etc. After hearing that, I doubt that you would think Bully is a video game that promotes many good skills to children. It's like Grand Theft Auto for children. I guess it's impossible to tone it down enough and still keep it fun.
Video Game Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Microsoft Windows (Bully: Scholarship Edition) and Sony PlayStation 2 (Bully)
Developers: Rockstar Vancouver (Sony PlayStation 2), Rockstar New England (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows), and Rockstar Toronto (Wii)
Publisher: Rockstar Games and Bethesda Softworks (Japan)
Description: In the first installment of this video game series, which follows Jimmy Hopkins, you are a bully. If that's not bad enough, you get to pick on other people, disobey school employees, do whatever you want to do during school hours, use weapons (that a schoolboy bully might have, such as a slingshot), etc. After hearing that, I doubt that you would think Bully is a video game that promotes many good skills to children. It's like Grand Theft Auto for children. I guess it's impossible to tone it down enough and still keep it fun.