Family Night Movie: "Game of Your Life"
December 01, 2011, By Kasie Baltes 2 comments
The holidays can get messy. With the chaos of shopping, planning parties and traveling while half the country is buried in snow and ice, it's easy to forget the point of it all. While Santa's to-do list may seem like the most crucial task, it's important to get the whole family to slow down and spend some time together.
If you're family's idea of "together" consists of fighting over game controllers and who's first to play with the Wii, there is a Family Night Movie just for you. "Game of Your Life," which premieres this Friday, December 2, at 8 Eastern 7 Central on NBC, is a great movie your whole family can enjoy. If you or your family is at all interested in technology, you really should see "Game of Your Life." Beyond being entertaining, it offers an inside look at the video-gaming world—full of special effects, programming and design, which not many get to see.
I got a chance to preview this movie, and even as a non-gamer I found myself wishing I had an Xbox Kinect to play. While all the cool video games and virtual reality intrigued me, it was the plot that really stole the show.
The show begins with college freshman Zach Taylor landing the scholarship of a lifetime—entry into an established video game design program. This is not your typical school. These students skip the books and start designing highly advanced video games with a tight-knit team. Together this team has to succeed with this project or they will be dropped from the program, immediately losing their dreams of becoming established designers.
As if programming, imagining and designing a video game isn't hard enough for these teenagers, Taylor is faced with the hard decision to continue his studies or work to help his family. His life quickly gets swept up in a gaming world, where he learns his decisions aren't always black and white. This game and his life mean much more than just a few avatars running around on a screen; it's about loyalty, family and hard work and only he can decide what's the right thing to do.
If you find yourself home on Friday night with the kids, take a look at this movie. Your kids are sure to appreciate seeing some of their favorite games, and you'll appreciate the time spent without having to pry a game controller out of their hands—not to mention it's a great way to kick off the holiday season with those who mean the most to you.
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