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PlayStation 2 News by Tom Bramwell
A senior examiner for the British Board of Film Classification has defended the organisation's decision to award Canis Canem Edit a 15 certificate.
"You can understand the concerns of a subject that hits the headlines fairly frequently in this country. Often the truth is far less dramatic than the myth that's put around it," Gianni Zamo told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz in an interview due to be published next week.
Canis Canem Edit is the PS2 game better known to most people by its US title Bully. It's been subjected to a lot of criticism by anti-bullying campaigners in the UK, with MP Keith Vaz also hopping on the bandwagon recently.
But Zamo reckons that developer/publisher Rockstar took a relatively considered approach - something largely reflected by very positive reviews.
"It's not just a free-for-all, go out and kick the living daylights out of everybody [game]," Zamo pointed out. "There are penalties for engaging in anti-social behaviour, so I think Rockstar have been careful to balance it out in that respect."
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President Weasel
07/12/06 @ 14:41
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Keith Vaz is a rabble-rousing idiot and I sincerely hope he is voted out of office in the next election.
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JediMasterMalik
07/12/06 @ 14:51
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BBFC seem to be doing there job well, good job BBFC, I applaude you for nat falling to media and political pressure.
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Carpathian
07/12/06 @ 15:23
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"Most of the people campaigning against it haven't even played it, and are just listening to hearsay....."
Listening to that muck would corrupt my sense of judgement too ! What ? Oh, not *that* Hearsay ? /gets coat but chuckles |
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Eighthours
07/12/06 @ 16:29
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So, nice to see that Keith Vaz has moved on from taking bribes and condoning death threats against authors.
Indeed. Still, we should be happy. With comedy figures like Jack Thompson and Vaz leading the "crusade", it'll never succeed. The time to worry will be when they get someone who isn't a crook to deliver the message. |
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If anything I'd say the BBFC are getting a bit lax these days. I think a 12A for Batman Begins was a bit light. People still associate Batman with comics and Adam West and thus automatically consider it suitable for children. I reckon there was more than one child with nightmares after seeing some of the drug-induced nightmare scenes.
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crazyhorse174
07/12/06 @ 19:46
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Eh...doesn't a 12A certificate mean that people under the age of 12 shouldnt watch it, but even people who are 12 should only watch if with an adults consent?
If you don't think that its suitable for your child, dont let them watch it. If they do and then have nightmares, then you only have yourself to blame - dont use the BBFC as a scapegoat. And saying that people associate Batman with the comics and the 60's show and so are lax about it these days is rubbish. Someone mustve watched the film for it to have earned its certificate. The BBFC didnt just see the title and think "Oh well, its just Batman...Adam West in full camp flow again...it'll be more POW, THWOK, WAPPing on the go again - just give it a low certificate!", did they? I dont think so. |
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