GCSE MEDIA STUDIES

 ‘Gender representation in video games is fair and balanced.’ How far do you agree with this view? Your answer should refer to Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Lara Croft Go. 

I partially agree with this statement.

In modern day, a lot  of teenagers are addicted to video games because it offers them diversion, escapism from normal life. This is because they are experiencing something unrealistic/ they want to relate to. Kim K: Hollywood glamorises false ideals such as having the perfect body,skin/makeup which could be very damaging towards her audience as teenagers are easily misled by the media and could pressure them to feel '' perfect''. Unhealthy body ideals could lead to illnesses such as eating disorder and with this game glorifying these ideals they are adding to the problem. 

The game Lara croft is designed by men who make her character come across as sexualised. This could be because they want to attract male audiences to play this as sterotypically they are more intrigued by adventure games  than any female based games. PEGI was set up by the ISFE* – an independent group that represents European software companies. After the PEGI was set up