Sen. Yee Warns Against Purchasing Shooters and 'Killing-machine' Games

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Sen. Yee Warns Against Purchasing Shooters and 'Killing-machine' GamesPosted 1:29pm Thu Nov 29, 2007 by Shiva Stella Tags: politics, senator leland yee, esrb, manhunt 2, violent games

Next-Gen has a story on US Senator Leland Yee, who is warning parents about picking up games in which players "torture women and racial minorities" this holiday season.

In a recent statement Sen. Yee commented that, "Unfortunately, some parents don’t realize that in many top selling games, the player actively participates in and is rewarded for violence, including killing police officers, maiming elderly persons, running over pedestrians, and torturing women and racial minorities."

The Senator claims that "If there are violence and sexual themes in the title and cover picture, you can assume these themes are also in the game. Avoid the 'first-person shooter' and 'third-person shooter' killing-machine games."

Sen. Yee also seized upon the Manhunt 2/ESRB "issue" and took the opportunity to state that not only is the game on many a child's Christmas list (sounds like some fact checking is in order) but that "It was recently revealed that the game – which many [be] called the most violent videogame ever produced – has accessible content designed for an Adults-Only (AO) rating."

He continues, "Despite the graphically violent scenes which were supposedly removed in order to receive the downgraded Mature (M) rating, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has refused to re-rate the game."

I will admit that I don't like certain companies (Rockstar) bullying ratings boards and pushing out crap titles like Manhunt 2 just to shock the senses (and, consequently, worsen matters for the rest of the industry), but someone tell me where in Call of Duty 4 I was forced to torture a woman or racial minority?