Trigger Happy
Just imagine how the rebooted Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare might have been improved if, after the notorious ‘Highway Of Death’ section, an avatar of Jeremy Corbyn had approached the player and suggested asking the Russians if they really had done the bombing before jumping to conclusions. The outcome of the UK’s recent general election might have been very different.
That, at least, is the kind of future envisaged by an academic – has become a more popular consciousness-raising tool. But, the authors argue, such webgames are “very simple games, with a very short circulation period, about general political issues whose main goal is just to inform and motivate players without delivering any significant analysis”.
