Gender

Look at 3 games 2 movies. stero types negatively re enforced.

200 words stereo types positively reemforced

Games

Duke Nukem Forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuuyRGB_BA (2011)

Game summary: http://www.dukenukemforever.com/full/uk/#/home
- The game is set 12 years after the previous title in the series. Duke Nukem 3D.
- Developed by 3D realms and Triptych Games, finished by Gearbox software and Piranha games
- First person shooter
- Released in 2011 after 15 years of Development

Duke Nukem set upon every possible stereotype for a out of control, heroic badass that has everything any man could want. Features in the game include having access ton your very own strip club and bar. The player is tasked with saving the world from invading aliens in an action packed thrill ride designed to reignite the Duke Nukem series.

There are many negative re enforced stereotypes in this game. We can see just from the trailers and website that this is typically going to be considered as a very masculine game. The themes in the game a very adult. We have things like blood and gore as well as explicit scenes were Duke is getting a lap dance or getting drunk at the bar. This can be very offensive towards women as it seems to portray them as objects to create this whole story of Duke being a kick ass hero who is perhaps more about the ladies than saving the world.

GTA V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI (2013)

Game Summary:
- Grand theft auto 5 is an open world game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games
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Mortal Kombat 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00-MspCacs

Movies

Bad Boys 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AURhd5TCG6U

James Bond http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw

Tomb Raider (200 words) (2013)


Lara croft tomb raider.
This particular title of Lara croft game isn't like any other that they have done before. Previous titles such as
tomb raider 3 on the play station one, project certain negative connotations about the female gender and it
touches on subjects would could be viewed as sexist.
In the new game we have a interesting plot and story line to look at. It takes place before Lara (the protagonist)
has achieved her legendary status. In this game we see her character shoved into a dangerous and potentially
life threatening environment in which she is does not have the necessary experience or skills to handle it. So
we now have this strong, intelligent, sexy woman thrown back into a place were she is very vulnerable. However
due to this situation she must now adapt and become the hero that she is supposed to be.
In the older games it seems as Lara croft was an excellent advertiser of the game because the target audience
for the game was teenage boys. What teenage boy wouldn't want to play a game who's character is a sexy,
rich barely clothed action heroin. And it is these themes that could be possibly considered as sexist.
However, the idea of the main character being a badass independent SINGLE woman could also be conceived
as an idol to all woman. And this is more apparent in the latest Lara croft game.
In this game there're some themes of a particularly dark nature. Including murder, rape and kidnapping. And
you as the player play through Lara's experience as she gradually becomes character that we all know.