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Desert Bus
Modern games such as Call of Duty, Man Hunt, etc have had complaints about it's violence and realism, even Col. Gaddafi is blaming the Libyan uprising on violent video games.
Desert Bus is a video game which is a representation of real life. The player of the game has to drive a bus through a desert at a maximum speed of 45mph on a 8 hour drive to Las Vegas, the bus has no passengers, there are no other cars on the road. If you go off the road you will have to wait for a toe-truck to arrive and toe you back at a real time e.g. if you've driven 6 hours it'll take you back 6 hours to get back to the start, which forces you to start over again, the bus slowly drifts right which forces the driver to constantly input a change in direction to keep the bus on the road. if you complete the route one way you will receive 1 point, the maximum score on the game is 99 points, which means that you would have to play for 41days straight without any breaks as there is no pause/stop button. The scenery only changes when a bug splats onto your windscreen about 5 hours into to your journey, other than that you see a the odd rock and stop sign, and depending on what time you play e.g. night, day, dusk etc the time/scenery effects change accordingly.
As Jameson argued that it's is now harder to judge what is real and what isn't, e.g. the line between simulation and reality is being blurred in postmodern society. Jameson would say that games such as Desert Bus are a pastiche of real life, as they are a imitation, it is an imitation of real life because if you did drive a bus from Tucan to Las Vegas, it would take you 8 hours, and if you did break down it would take the pick up truck 'x' amount of hours to arrive, and toe you back.
Desert Bus is a video game which is a representation of real life. The player of the game has to drive a bus through a desert at a maximum speed of 45mph on a 8 hour drive to Las Vegas, the bus has no passengers, there are no other cars on the road. If you go off the road you will have to wait for a toe-truck to arrive and toe you back at a real time e.g. if you've driven 6 hours it'll take you back 6 hours to get back to the start, which forces you to start over again, the bus slowly drifts right which forces the driver to constantly input a change in direction to keep the bus on the road. if you complete the route one way you will receive 1 point, the maximum score on the game is 99 points, which means that you would have to play for 41days straight without any breaks as there is no pause/stop button. The scenery only changes when a bug splats onto your windscreen about 5 hours into to your journey, other than that you see a the odd rock and stop sign, and depending on what time you play e.g. night, day, dusk etc the time/scenery effects change accordingly.
As Jameson argued that it's is now harder to judge what is real and what isn't, e.g. the line between simulation and reality is being blurred in postmodern society. Jameson would say that games such as Desert Bus are a pastiche of real life, as they are a imitation, it is an imitation of real life because if you did drive a bus from Tucan to Las Vegas, it would take you 8 hours, and if you did break down it would take the pick up truck 'x' amount of hours to arrive, and toe you back.
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