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Video games are becoming really dangerous now as their violence and blood-thirst affect thoughts and behavior of teenagers. People from 4 to 45 years are fond of video games and their state of irritation, depression and even aggression can be provoked by them. The statistic shows that every third child in his early teens plays video games and 7% of children spend 30 hours a week playing video games. Moreover, these games can cause a real addiction and it’s very difficult to get rid of it. Such games as Mortal Combat, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Doom and others are full of blood and murder, their main aim is killing all the opponents. One of the latest and most popular video games is “25 To Life”. Its popularity in the market of video games is very big and growth with every day.

事实上暴力游戏是暴力最残暴的变体，他们看起来似乎没有任何目的，就好像准备和歹徒一起谋杀别人，但没有人会为此负责。这样的游戏能给孩子带来什么呢？他们讲如何影响孩子的内心世界呢？

In fact this game is the most atrocious variant of violent games and looks like has no other aim as preparing gangsters and murders out of people who pay it. What can such games give to a child? How will they influence his inner world?

Influence of violent video games暴力视频游戏的影响

The video games producers put such labels on their production: "Real-life violence" and "Violence level - not recommended for children under age of 12". It doesn’t stop customers; on the contrary, such games are in a great demand. In addition, shop assistant will most probably sell such a game to a kid without any hesitation. Even the latest scientific researches, which proved the addictive effect of video games don’t stop partents from buy their beloved kids new “bloody” game.

Strong correlation between the violent nature of video games and their players is traced. The results of the cruelty of video games are evident and its consequences can’t be left without attention. Cruel games give rise to cruel behavior and now we even have terrible examples of it: in the year 1999 two boys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebord organized an assassination on High School in Littleton. The result is 13 men killed and 23 wounded and two suicides of these boys. We can’t determine the exact aims and motives of boys’ actions but it’s known about boys’ passion to gorier video game called Doom. Harris even created his web site where he placed a video similar to action of the game. In this video two men, dressed and armed like the chracters of Doom video game were shouting at defenseless people. In less than a year they brought their terrible video to real life. Such reality is terrible and frustrating.

Influence of video games is unpredictable: some children feel frustration and stress, some become very aggressive and can bring mental, emotional or even physical harm to their surrounding. The increase of aggressive attacks and behavior of teenagers led to the necessity of finding the reason and methods of its discontinuance.

Surveys and researches调查及研究
Calvert and Tan (Calvert, Sandra L., & Tan, Siu-Lan, 1994). who compared the effects of different video games made a number of tests and researches in order to find out the influence of video games on the