A favorite first person shooter?

Shooter games have always annoyed me. No matter what the subject matter, they all seem like veiled references to gunplay. Disclosure: I'm a (neurotic/pacifist/treehugger) mom of three and we don't have "water guns"... we have "water squirters."

Last year I traveled to Boston to see the Institute of Contemporary Art's exhibit Design Life Now. This is the design world's Mecca... showing the best of the best from the past three years.

Among the installations I spotted what was clearly a virtual reality game. "Ug" said my inner voice. "VR is so 90s." Boy was I wrong. Snow World is a game made to help burn victims deal with the pain associated with their injuries. Men who have been injured in Iraq (due to real point and shooting) don the game's glasses, lob snowballs at snowmen and feel relief.

That's a FPS even I can support.