if a parent ever tries to take the game to court over an incident, then yes i believe it will be seen as their fault.

lets say if their child ever killed someone, and told police that he learned it off and was able to imitate it off the game manhunt 2. so of course the parents would want to sue either take two or nintendo or both for releasing a game like this....BUT it will be said that wii has parental controls and it should have been that parents responsibility to turn them on.

i dont see the problem yet with this game if its released on the wii. it can easily be avoided if some parents take responsibility and i agree with you that some parents wont do it.

its intended for the adult audience and i believe take-two said that themselves.

Sheesh, I kind of feel bad for people trying to prove the Wii is more than just a kid system, as it looks like politicians are trying to peg it a kid system.

Could this potentially scare off Mature games from developers (or have some sort of an effect)?

i dont know if you meant me or not but i wasnt trying to prove that at all. i would have no reason to do that or get anything out of it. but its just the thought of any publisher or developer getting blamed for something that isnt there fault (excluding manhunt 2) pisses me off.

well, blex. going on the assumption that the age posted on your profile is correct. you must have taken government in HS? i sould also assume that you dont live in one of our liberal states and haven't taken any studies on law. (i have taken some and have a lawyer for an uncle)
The media and the courts have often raised cases that accussed the entertainment industry for criminal action taken by minors.
Its very seldom to think that our courts would believe in makeing the purpatraters actions their own when there are so many things to blame it on.

it is absurd to allow people to blame their actions on an opposing working force, but they do and they always will. eventhough most cases against the videogame industry, it was because the failure for the courts to make a translation between pushing a button to kill a virtual character. but now that the player has to pysically move the body in a way that mimics the murder, that translation become quite clearer and easier to associate to that of a real murder.

How is AO the kiss of death. M is for 17+. AO is for 18+ BIG DEAL! One year difference. Sure this might turn away parents who might buy M titles for their kids and Rockstar might lose a few thousand sales, but what was everyone expecting? You have blood everywhere in the game and you can kill people by slitting through their scrotum.

my age is correct and i will be going to college this fall and yes i have also taken government classes. i understand how it works and i know where you are coming from...but like some people in our country i dont agree with what the government does and how they handle things.

i understand how the court cases work but i was only stating how i felt about the whole situation. thats all i can do because i know it probably never change.

cool. btw, i really didn't mean to sound like a jerk but, what make sense and what often happens are never alike . especially in the states.

as they say, commen sense is not so commen.

alot of people are stupid and will continue to abuse our judical system as long as they continue to win.

do us all a fovor and become a lawyer to put a stop to this maddness. reclaim and enforce the idea that we are capable and responsable for all our actions.

If this game is getting this much publicity like this seems like it would just be in Nintendo's best interest to allow the game to be released with an AO rating I mean it means parents won't see it on the shelves so you kind of eliminate that well I didn't know that I couldn't give my 12 year old an M rated rated game mentality which if anything did happen I'm pretty sure that is what it would be like. A parent would essentially claim ignorance of the Wii ability to block content based on rating and their own ignorance in what an M rating meant assuming that all things Nintendo are obviously G rated. Rating it AO though means they have to take an extra step to even see the game it isn't something your kid will bring up to you and without even looking at it you just buy for them at the store. Conversly those that still want the game and are the actual target audience can still buy the game. As for Nintendo they can keep their kiddy rating for the parents and have the only AO rated game so far this generation for the more mature gamers that only think of the system as a kiddy system. All in all though the PS2 GTA series, SOCOM and MGS didn't seem to keep parents from buying the PS2 and I don't believe GTA ever had much positive coverage from the media besides its sales numbers.

oddly enough i will be going to college and majoring in criminal justice...but still not sure what to do with it.

but nah you didnt sound like a jerk