You know the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? The same is true about violence in any form, whether its books, movies, video games, television shows, etc.
I view violence in games as a good thing. Some games are good without it, but after a while of not killing anything, its nice to pop in God of War and slice up some mythological creatures.
This just popped up into my head. You notice how politicians only go after games with human-on-human violence? EX: Grand Theft Auto, Postal 2, Manhunt, Bully. Why not God of War or any other game of the sort? Because mythology and fantasy isn't real and 3D rendered humans in an imaginary location are?
If you have seen Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine", it shows that the American society is such where we have violence everyday. But why pick on video games?
There is something violent happening right now, as you and I read this. Someone is getting stabbed, some house is being broken into and the owner is beaten an inch to death, theres a car accident with 2 or 3 fatalities. And yet the politicians choose to go after games.
Please find any faults in my post, as I just woke up and this is "wake up anger" release.