So says an interviewee in this trailer for a forthcoming documentary on videogame violence entitled Moral Kombat. According to Dean Takahashi in his blog for the Mercury News, the programme has been put together by Spencer Halpin, brother of Hal Halpin, founder of the Entertainment Consumers Association. Spencer has drawn together interviews with the usual doom-mongering suspects - Jack Townsend and Senator Joe Lieberman - as well as games journalists and developers. The director explains:

"The film takes an unprecedentedly-candid look at the hot-topic debate that pits artists' rights and our culture's thirst for violence and sensationalism, against our social obligation to protect the youth generation as it takes shape and, inevitably, shapes our future."

The trailer is rather elegiac, placing the words of interviewees over slow-mo images of game violence with wilting Hollywood music in the background - it sort of feels like The Inconvenient Truth. But Halpin seems keen to point out that his film is not anti-games. It is, apparently, an objective analysis of a misunderstood yet increasingly powerful cultural force. I was slightly put off by the almost obligatory 9/11 reference - I understand the shattering effect this catastrophe had on the American psyche, but a sequence that alludes to the hijackers' use of flight sims to teach them how to pilot jet planes seems incongruous.

Sadly, there's no info on where or when this documentary will be shown, but you can read more about it here.

I've also embedded the YouTube trailer below, so you can take a look yourself without leaving Gamesblog...

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