Sigh. As much as I love this country, the stupid things it does (and I'm not just talking about the government's pointless Emissions Trading Scheme coming in next year) when it comes to video games and specifically violence in video games makes me shake my head.
This time 'family groups' are assaulting HDO because of the amount of 'sexually aggressive violence and aggressively violent language' which (SHOCK!) appears in a game released only on the Wii, a console seen as more of a family family-freindly console and obviously beneath such brutal violence and swearing.
If I'm coming off sounding sarcastic, that's because the idea of condemming this game is so ludicrous that sarcasm seems to be the only appropriate response (anger maybe, but I'm not a naturally angry person). Coming out with comments such as this only proves they've actually never played the game, because as every review I've read and even the Escapists Yahtzee have mentioned - it's meant to be hideously over the top because it's making satire of the zombie genre.
What a concept! Satire! Who would have thought that was the reason behind the violence and foul language? Obviously not these family groups, who revealed how little they know not only of the game in question but the outdated and incorrect notion that video game violence promotes actual violence.
Luckily, we at the Escapist know better. It's still a shame though, to have to put up with this sort of rubbish from groups whose loose understanding of videogames seems to impart some sort of right to spout whatever negative thought they feel like.
This time 'family groups' are assaulting HDO because of the amount of 'sexually aggressive violence and aggressively violent language' which (SHOCK!) appears in a game released only on the Wii, a console seen as more of a family family-freindly console and obviously beneath such brutal violence and swearing.
If I'm coming off sounding sarcastic, that's because the idea of condemming this game is so ludicrous that sarcasm seems to be the only appropriate response (anger maybe, but I'm not a naturally angry person). Coming out with comments such as this only proves they've actually never played the game, because as every review I've read and even the Escapists Yahtzee have mentioned - it's meant to be hideously over the top because it's making satire of the zombie genre.
What a concept! Satire! Who would have thought that was the reason behind the violence and foul language? Obviously not these family groups, who revealed how little they know not only of the game in question but the outdated and incorrect notion that video game violence promotes actual violence.
Luckily, we at the Escapist know better. It's still a shame though, to have to put up with this sort of rubbish from groups whose loose understanding of videogames seems to impart some sort of right to spout whatever negative thought they feel like.
