Game controversies
Sep. 28th, 2005 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sqlrobGame controversies, or rather the lack of them, are rather interesting.
Take San Andreas. An M rated game, ostensibly for adults. Incredibly violent, drug use, all sorts of nasty stuff. Add a little sex that can only be accessible with hardware (on the PS2), and everyone is up in arms.
Now look at my latest purchase. Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves, rated E, for cartoon violence. Full of nice (well, relatively nice, compared to San Andreas anyway) anthropomorphic animals that look like a 3D Saturday morning cartoon. Yet the first level has some bigotry in it that I've never seen mentioned anywhere. You're running across the rooftops of Paris, and about half the enemies are frogs. This seems like something the PC police would've jumped on the day this game came out.
Take San Andreas. An M rated game, ostensibly for adults. Incredibly violent, drug use, all sorts of nasty stuff. Add a little sex that can only be accessible with hardware (on the PS2), and everyone is up in arms.
Now look at my latest purchase. Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves, rated E, for cartoon violence. Full of nice (well, relatively nice, compared to San Andreas anyway) anthropomorphic animals that look like a 3D Saturday morning cartoon. Yet the first level has some bigotry in it that I've never seen mentioned anywhere. You're running across the rooftops of Paris, and about half the enemies are frogs. This seems like something the PC police would've jumped on the day this game came out.