Laura Craft
I never really played these games with Laura Craft my older brother was into them. I used to sit around and watch him play and as guys we bothe never really looked at her as being a sexual image. Like Susan I looked at this charatcer as a female who was very smart and could kick some ass and beat up most of the guys. http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SusanCarmichael/2010/01/would_the_real_laura_croft_ple.html
I do agree with Leslie when she says that the cover of NextGen demonstrates how immature the gaming culture can be. http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/013750.html. It is a shame that the cover of NextGen is using sex to sell instead of looking at the game in a more professional manner. However, this does go back to the marketing strategy of our culture. "Sex sells" and NextGen is trying to sell their product.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL250/2010/01/rodriguez/
It has been my understanding that many people in the class made the statement that sex sells. What is this saying about the society that we live in? It seems like “sex sells” is the easy way out of answering an even deeper question: why does our society still use sex as a marketing tool? Why is it when we say “sex sells” it is usually in defense of an ad depicting a highly sexualized woman rather then a man?