naznatips on 12 August 2007
| Final-Fan said: In fact, GotchayeX, you yourself said, "Many parent will let their teens play Halo, but many wouldn't want them to touch Manhunt. By failing to rate the two games differently, the ESRB fails to adequately police itself in the eyes of many parents." But when Manhunt 2 got bitchslapped with the AO rating and banned from all consoles, guess what happened? They made some tiny changes and are getting it re-rated to M, the same as the Halo games. QED. |
That's fine, add more steps in the rating system to differentiate more, but AO is a taboo rating that bans the games from even being published on the 3 consoles. It's not really fair to say something like Gears doesn't have the right to be published. I personally am not a huge fan of Gears (I think graphic violence is a fallback for developers who lack creativity), but I think it has every right to make it to shelves. The rating shows that kids shouldn't play it. Maybe some more detailed ratings would be nice, but either way: kids shouldn't be playing Gears or Halo, regardless of the differences in gore.
