MadWorld spoils "family fun image" of Wii Comments by Robert Purchese

Surely Nintendo is free to dictate the Wii's image as they see fit? Who the heck is this guy?

This might ruin the 'family fun image'? Ah, diddums. Families aren't contract-bound to buy little Timmy every game released for the Wii.

As Nintendo have pointed out, BBFC 18 cert, job done.

No different to having Toy Story and Pulp Fiction in your DVD collection.

secombe: Well said. Wii Sports and the other minigame collections won't get any more family-unfriendly just because you can get Mad World for the same console as well.

The fact that this article comes from the "Mail" say's it all!

Can I just say how surprised I am at the mail actually allowing common-sense, non-reactionary comments for the 'article'. Usually, the Mail thought police work to ensure that nothing ruins their reactionary and scaremongering articles...

The Wii has spoilt the loner adolescent killing simulator image of consoles, therefore should be banned.

Fuck off! The Wii needs this game more than I need a drink!

Two months after release of Madworld, ask 100 Wii-owning mothers if they know a game called MadWorld. I'd guess about 5 percent may have read something about it in a newspaper, the other 95 percent won't know what you are talking about.

The 'family fun image' is just safe and sound.

What platform was No More Heroes exclusivley on? You know the one where you play a foul mouthed assasin who's essentially just doing it for kicks.

I agree, might as well put it on 360 instead....

To be honest given the highly stylised look of Mad World I could see it ending up as a 15.

This article represents the current state of gaming.

Fortunately, it'd won't spoilt the 'bunch of idiotic twerps unable to hack it in the real world' image of Mediawatch UK.

I enjoyed strangling people in the godfather for wii

you moved the remote and nunchuck like you were ACTUALLY strangling them

it was loads of fun

"Mediawatch-UK, a British organisation that campaigns for decency in television, games and films."

Mediawatch-UK can $*** my C**k.
They want it to be denied classification presumably to protect the impressionable over 18's who would otherwise be able to play it once its rated by the BBFC?
-.-
morons.

Telling adults that they can't do something just because you think it's wrong is civilised.

If I was as small-minded as they are I would have to say something about that.

I'm really pleased to be working on this title :)

@Xerx3s

Telling adults that they can't do something just because you think it's wrong is civilised.

Your statement is a little too broad in it's scope...or did you really think murder, rape, theft etc. etc should be allowed just because the person comitting it is over 18?

John Meyer, director of Mediawatch-UK was talking to the Mail Online. Has this bloke seen what else is available online? If he had any idea about the filth that exists online he might think twice about having his organisation associated with such a depraved thing as the Internet. For shame!

This will do wonders for sales.

Let's hope this doesn't lead to publisher censorship of the Rule of Rose/No More Heroes type again
Damn idiot UK tabloids

Free Publicity Go!

BAAAAWWWWWWW

I don't give a shit, I'll be importing it from the US anyway.

Fuck these twats and fuck the 'family fun image'.

anything that makes the Wii a bit more of an actual games console and less of a lifestyle accessory can only be a good thing.

Fucking Wii.

What's that Mediawatch?
How dare we voice our own god dam opinions on a Mother Fucking website your children might read!!

What's next? Toilet vending machines should not sell condoms as it ruins the "fun family image" of taking a SHIT!!!

I'm appalled violent films exist as they mean no children should ever go to the cinema. Wait, what?

I want this game more now, thanks for the free publicity!

Also isn't the Wii home to Red Steel, 2 Medal of Honor games, Call of Duty 3, Resi 4, Metroid 3, Resi UC, HotD 2&3, Splinter Cell DA, Scarface, Godfather, Bully, Tomb Raider, Ghost Squad, Far Cry, No More Heroes with stuff like MadWorld, The Conduit, CoD 5, Red Steel 2, Cursed Mountain, Tenchu 4, Project Zero 4, Sadness, Dead Rising and who knows what else these sick bastards can think up of?

As far as I'm concerned this is great, a console trying appeal to everyone, if you're offended by MadWorld, simply don't buy it, I wouldn't touch Game Party or its ilk, but I don't bitch and moan about people who do buy/enjoy it.

This guy is a cunt and should go fuck his mum.

This is, frankly, utterly ridiculous.

How is it, exactly, the responsibility of the BBFC to maintain Nintendo's product image? If Nintendo are prepared to have MadWorld reflect on them and it doesn't contravene any UK censorship laws there's nothing at all to stop the BBFC certifying it, 18 most likely, and letting it go on sale. Morons.

Why is a 'pressure group' worrying about me? I can worry about myself. Bugger off.

Do they not realize it's a games console, not a family toy for little children?

>This guy is a cunt and should go fuck his mum.

+1

Who gives a fuck what this guy thinks one game will do to the 'reputation' of the Wii? What slightest bit of difference does it make to him? Does he have stocks in Nintendo? Does he assume they'll fall in value when this game is released? Is he Rodger Wii, of Wii Reputations Incorporated, who made the Wii and sold it to Nintendo on the proviso that no violent games were released on it?

Twat.

From the Mediawatch website:

"Founded in the 1960s by the late, Mary Whitehouse CBE, when there were just two TV channels and at a time when standards of good taste and decency were being overthrown by some broadcasters..."

In other words, out of touch in 1960s, wandering blind in the 21st Century.

precisely azmol1.
Perhaps our concerned friends at the MediaWatch campaign can retroactively ban these older (more realistic) violent games listed.
Save us from ourselves! Because we cant understand current age clasification, help! what does a Huge red '18' mean please?
will my gran like it?

Mary Whitehouse. Says it all.

The BBFC's role is to give age minimum ratings, not cater to one groups opinion about what is right and wrong for the country. These people sound like they'd rather be living a dictatorship state without free choice with the way they are going on.

I am absolutely disgusted.

The sub-editing on that article is terrible - "repatoire" and "clammering"?

This is great news for the hardcore/mature crowd, lets hope more ignorant critics follow suit and we'll have a successful third party adult content game on Wii.

the wii is a toy for children and arrested-development adults. can we stop talking about the silly thing here on EG? otherwise we'll need to have a v-tech section too.

Mary Whitehouse and the Daily Mail joing forces to "ban this sick filth", awesome. I posted this with the Youtube trailer for Madworld on another forum in May...

"Can't wait till the Daily Mail sees this, "SICK FILTH COMES TO FAMILY CONSOLE""

... it's just too easy.

The irony is, MediaWatch and the Daily Mail have probably done more to boost sales of ultra-violent games than any specialist press or other media outlets.

wonk, it's a little unfair - Mary Whitehouse, for all her zeal, actually did some good. We would not have the systems in place now for content if she hadn't interjected into the media fray - what we have now at 9pm was actually being broadcast at 5-6pm back then, when people were settling down to dinner with their families. If anything, she was much needed to raise such issues, and had it not been her, it would have been someone else. The systems we have in place now are as a result of her work. She didn't clean up TV and media, but her work means we have many of the organisations and failsafes we have now .

However, I think it is true that MediaWatch UK is grossly out-of-date and out of touch today, and has relatively few teeth to really bite hard into the fray. There are organisations and failsafes in place which have far more power to tackle such issues, and as weve seen the past few years - do tackle issues raised, quite well. MediaWatch UK is an independant organisation, and whilst of course they have a right to have a voice - they have no power to enforce their voice. They are not consulted at any stage in the process - again, because we have organisations and measures in place who arre more efffective and impartial.

It's just a small pressure group trying to sound big and important but ultimately having no real powers to do anything. What these people say will have very little impact, if any, on the processes used by the BBFC and TV channels already. Just look at the adorable crazy people, laugh a moment and move on with your life. They're not worth the energy it's taken to make this post. *wink*

It should be remembered that "mediawatch-uk" is just the modern name for the "National Viewers' and Listeners' Association" - i.e. the organisation founded by Mary Whitehouse back in the 60s to fight "indecency" on the BBC in particular. This is simply gaming receiving the Whitehouse treatment 30-40 years on.

What I don't understand is the ratings issue. Obviously this game is going to get a BBFC 18 certificate, something reserved only for the most violent/sexual films these days.

These people are calling for the industry to be regulated better, and the obvious system appears to be the BBFC age rating. All games like this ARE getting BBFC ratings anyway. So what are they saying, that the BBFC system doesn't work? If so, how is a new system going to be any better? At least those red circles are instantly recognisable and virtually everyone knows what they mean.

Champagne corks popping at Platinum Studios in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . .

MEDIAWATCH GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY HOBBY

So, small group of right-wing nutters complain about a game to the right-wing, fascist supporting trash mag the Daily (Hate) Mail and this is news?

What next, reporting blogs as news? Oh, wait.....

Are we sure John Beyer doesn't actualyl write for the mail online rather than jsut being interviewed? He sounds like a prize uber cock.

I hope he keeps it up tho so the games sells millions. Dickwad.

You lot were scared of the casuals!! Look out, the morality nutjobs are here to spoil your Wii gaming.

Seriously guys, this is pure media spin and you are falling for it, Sega will have had a PR firm controlling this from the kick off, it is the basic Rockstar model of propagating column inches in the tabloids for FREE by way of "negative" publicity, as we all know ANY publicity is good publicity.

On the off-chance that John Beyer's children read this:

Fucking cunting fuck cunt shit arsebadger, I like to shoot people in the face and then stab them in the chest and then rub my willy on them. I think you should do the same.


Irresponsible twat letting his kids read uncensored internet. Now his children will be vulgar mass-murdering sex offenders. Bet he feels stupid now.

(I realise this is a long shot.)