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I should have seen this coming. In the wake of yesterday’s publication of Tanya Byron’s government report into videogames, the knee-jerk-tastic Daily Mail has decided to get an ‘expert’ in to critique some of the more violent titles out there. The expert? Why, none other than recently-lardy ex-morning TV presenter Anne Diamond, of course.
Predictably, she’s not a fan. But it’s not just the evil 360 and PS3 with their youth-corrupting Mature titles that get the brunt of Diamond’s criticism. Two Wii games are featured - Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and Scarface: The World Is Yours. You can read the fantastic Resi 4 review above (cheers for the pic, Daily Mail), but Scarface also gets a tongue-lashing - “it’s disturbing that so many teenagers presumably have access to this mindless garbage over and over again.” Ouch!
Halo 3 gets off fairly lightly - “not too much bad language” enthuses Anne, but hopefully this will become a regular Mail feature, if only because I’ve not laughed this hard in a long time.
(Oh, and if anyone remembers any scenes in Resi 4 with cataclysmic chemical attacks, or zombie arms being “slashed off”, can they please tell me how to reach them - must have missed those.)
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
“Stabbed to death with pitch-forks”… he can’t be very good then? I’ve never managed to be killed by one of the villagers.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
A picture of Mario Kart 64 with the quote:
“Harmful: A Government-commissioned report says that video games can desensitise children to violence”
Yeah. Mario Kart will do that to you. Especially when someone gets a lightning on the last lap….
March 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Mario Kart Wii’s even worse for that. Blue shells galore.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Ha, Phil, I was thinking the exact same thing.
She didn’t even make it far enough to get her head sawed off. LAAAAAAMMMER
March 28th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
OMG, i never realized i was being so troumatized by my wii! Well, guess i better keep stabbing people with pitchforks and eating people like i learned in re4
March 29th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I would attempt to make a lame-ass joke about this predicament (if we can really call it that) but…
I’M ROFLING SO MUCH THAT I CAN’T TYPE!