Parents Horrified By ‘Most Violent Game Ever’
Bored lobbyists with nothing better to do with their time than try and spoil other people’s fun have kicked off again at the gaming industry, this time targeting the Nintendo Wii and upcoming ‘MadWorld’, scheduled for release next year. If you haven’t heard of the game, it’s an ultra-violent third person action title set in a war torn virtual world. Stylistically it seems to have been modelled after Frank Miller’s Sin City since it’s entirely presented in black and white save for blood-red splatter. Fun that can be had involves impaling enemies on road signs, ripping out hearts and chopping things to bits with chainsaws. Sounds bloody good to us then. The killjoys come in the form of pressure-group MediaWatch-UK, who recently spoke to the Daily Mail about their thoughts on the upcoming title. “This game sounds very unsavoury” said director John Beyer, “I hope the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will view this with concern and decide it should not be granted a classification. We need to ensure that modern and civilized values take priority rather than killing and maiming people.” Sure, because ‘Cooking Mama’ is the kind of title that’s going to send the platform soaring to new levels of popularity, while all the time ’saving the family fun image of the Wii’. Perhaps children should start undercooking chicken to give everyone salmonella so we can get that one banned as well. A quick look at the success of Grand Theft Auto shows just how much people enjoy letting their hair down and going a bit crazy in a virtual world, and lets face it, if you’re the sort of parent that would ignore an 18 classification on a video game and buy it for your 12-year-old, or have brought them up so poorly that they don’t know it’s wrong to actually do that sort of thing in real life, there’s only one place to point the finger of blame. - Paul Lester [DailyMail] game violence classification
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