Welcome to Britain... the Game

by Brian A Kennedy | April 30, 2007 at 08:43 am

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Potential foreign students freaked out by British mores have a new tool on their hands -- C-Shock, a mobile-phone game that simulates the first day of university. Players have to see people drinking and smoking, women talking to the opposite sex, all that bad stuff. Thank goodness there's no plan for a US version...

One of its devisers, academic Nipan Maniar, said he hoped the game would help students know what to expect.

The senior lecturer in the university's faculty of creative and cultural industries, who is Indian, said he experienced a "massive culture shock" himself when he came to Portsmouth in 2000 to do his MSc.

"It was not just the environment I was in, but the teaching - the relationship with tutors was very informal."