there is a lot of brainwashing that goes into video games ,like making heros out of murders,or making the army look beautiful,like big powerful men,i believe that if your already violent to begin with it encourages more violence,or if your easy led these games could be a bad influence ,but if your not a violent person or easy led then they will not have an influence,but of course children watching and playing, these games,whose to say what there been programmed with ,after all we have all been programmed with something since birth,its a lot worse now ,there trying to turn the young into material zombies ,that way they will be blind to the world just like a robot easy to control.