Week 12 Games Britania Part 2 and Part 3

                The second part of the three part series Woolley traces the surprising political and social impact that board games have had in Britain over the last 200 years. It was the British who developed the idea of the board game as an instrument of moral instruction and exported it to America. There, it was adapted to promote the American Dream of free enterprise and economic success. In this episode Woolley went back through the past of the war days talking about the board games Cluedo, Scrabble and Monopoly are the British family favourite games to date. In today’s day board games have evolved dramatically to include such things like fantasy role playing games for example Dungeons and Dragons which is an American invention. The British still continue in producing niche political games like War on Terror.

                In the final part of the series Woolley explores the journey that games have undergone from the board to screen and the reflection on how rapidly its changing the history of modern Britain. The big British years of the 90’s introduced characters like Lara Croft to the world beyond video games and they were propelled into the internet age and she was put into films as well.  The investigation that Woolley undertook investigations to the present day where he found where he talks about GTA4 and how it requires you to shoot and survive but to also make the moral choice that have a visible effect in the game.