Beyond Choices The Design of Ethical Gameplay

Today's blockbuster video gamesand their never-ending sequels, sagas, and rebootsprovide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination. In Beyond Choices, Miguel Sicart calls for a new generation of video and computer games that are ethically relevant by design. In the 1970s, mainstream filmsincluding The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driverfilled theaters but also treated their audiences as thinking beings. Why can't mainstream video games have the same moral and aesthetic impact? Sicart argues that it is time for games to claim their place in the cultural landscape as vehicles for ethical reflection.
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