Aislinn Simpson from The Daily Telegraph outlines plans from the Prime Minister to toughen up the rating system for video games. She writes:
"At present, only about 10 per cent of computer games - those featuring "gross" violence or offensive sexual images - are covered by the age classification system. Some games, such as Manhunt 2, have been banned altogether because of their disturbing nature".
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
I have to say that the picture that came with the article doesn't make a whole lot of sense. They appear to have a PS1, a PS2 controller, 2 PSP's and the TV is behind them...
Perhaps that puts the article in to perspective, they don't seem to have a clue what they are talking about. I mean aren't all games subject to age controls regardless of content? Not just the worst 10%