Just for those who haven't played the game and wonder what this argument is actually all about.
Most Graphic Possible Scene out of 6
Oh and if you're wondering, the scene in it's entirety take 50seconds (this one being the longest!) basically right before the last fight of the game happens.
If you're great at the game, rushing and on your 2nd or more play through with your old characters you can get to it in just over 5hours.. otherwise you're looking at 15-25hours depending on how many side missions you do if any.
Something also to note is throughout the game you get several very difficult choices to make about important characters that either live or die, often with you dealing out the execution; but in everyone one of these cases you never actually see the inccident happen or the body afterwards except for the start one that always happens and part of the story; even then it is just the body.
On the whole the Mass Effect story quite frankly has far better taste and quality than most modern movies, and my god have FOX been calling kettle black.
Mass Effect's story presentation and quality would earn it a place on the Hallmark Channel, or ABC1. Quite frankly this is all just as ridiculous as McDonalds UK CEO saying the reason kids are fat are because of Video Games... obviously not the 600-odd calorie Happy Meals they've just wolfed down atleast two of.
Something to note here is the UK is quite well known for it's extremely strict ratings system BBFC. This system not only Banned Carmageddon but both Manhunt games until the developers changed aspects of them. Carmageddon was released with green blood and zombies, Manhunt 1 had the camera look away when graphics scenes happened and Manhunt 2 the screen is so blurry and weirdly coloured that quite frankly you might as well be attempting to retune your TV at the time and get a better picture.
So after those games you'd think a game like Mass "E-sexed" would obviously be some sorta 1
nly game, right? I mean it's truely horrible.
WRONG. Here in the UK it was rated 12, not even 12A - which means that Adults must say "yay or nay" to their child buying it but 12.
Why? Simply because of what I mentioned above.
The game might have some scenes that could be offensive and not suitable for younger children sure, but frankly because of how tastefully it is all done. You'll often see more on TV Soaps, or on the front of newspapers like... oh I dunno the Fox-owned SUN and Daily Sport perhaps?
It is one thing to bash a game for things truely wrong. They can truely ripp GTA apart for all I care, because Rockstar quite frankly threw out their good taste book years ago. That said tbh, they do have age rating on them.
If your kid is playing it then it's the retailer who is accountable. Here in the UK if a retailer sells a game to underage people who can't provide ID or know a parent is buying for a kid who is underage they can get upto a £5000 fine; both parent and retail clerk!
Frankly no one bloody does it because it's not worth not only loosing a minimum wage job over but also getting a fine larger than a most of their yearly wages! (given most are part-time staff)
Oh not only is it a 12 but the back also notes and I quote:
"Contains moderate violence and
one moderate sex scene"
Now again bare in mind that this is in a country where you can NOT purchase hardcore porn in the shops, nor can you show anything beyond softcore porn on television no matter the water shed.
So seriously, you're going to tell me and I'm talking to you Kilik cause frankly you are the only muppet I've seen arguing EA had this comming when frankly the sex scene was only ever RUMOURED... if EA had said "Yeah, sure it's in there" they would've been endorsing it, if they'd said "Nope, nothing like that in there" they would've been torn apart lying. You know what EA said?
BUGGER ALL, niether did Bioware themselves. They hinted at the fact that you could finally have a relationship; but no full blown. "Yeah you can totally do aliens/lesbians/gays/anything" like people (and I mostly mean you and several other bloggers who seemed to believe this the case) believe they did.
How about this Kilik, get off your arse.. sell that worthless PS3 you have and grab a 360 and a copy of Mass Effect. If you can honestly sit there and keep coming out with the crap you are coming out with after actually playing the game, then apart from me coming to the understanding you obviously have some degenerative retardation; I guess your opinions might hold a tad more weight.
In-fact I'd actually also suggest you checkout reviews of Mass Effect because many many many reviewers seemed to agree that really there just wasn't enough of the getting it on in there. Perhaps that is comming from sex starved gamers but even still I firmly believe the evidence against the crap spouted by what claim to be a fair & unbiased newstation; is just crap.
You can forgive a blogger for coming out with non-factual crap, as that's an opinion. A newstation however is liable to report the FACTs of a situation.
Then again as I said, I doubt this has anything to do with your political stance and more about the whole Sony vs Microsoft deal; otherwise why bring up God of War. Well guess what, Grand Theft Auto 3 (all of them) were released on Sony consoles first; some have no alternative platform version and they have been in the media since release for violence, gang-rated crime, stereotyping, HOT COFFEE, etc..
To say Sony have the right idea about things is just plain old crap.
