Was reading a feature on IGN, check it out.
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I want this game.Videogames have their own unique rules for what is allowable and what isn't. Six Days in Fallujah is the most recent example of a game running afoul of prevailing social norms. Less than a month after revealing the third person shooter that was to retell the story of 2004's battle in Fallujah, Konami announced it would no longer publish the game due to public outcry.
Games about real life battles are commonplace, but most are given a comfortable historical buffer. Translating an actual military event is vulgar when time hasn't yet distanced us from the human cost. When the people directly connected to the event have either passed on, or are generally indifferent to the medium in which their experiences are being translated, this insensitivity is tolerable. Without that buffer, gamers are confronted with the uncomfortable question oh what it means to play a game based on real life tragedies. Is it wrong to create entertainment from death? Is it offensive only when someone is still alive to voice an objection?
What the hell was that?Banned game: RapeLay
A month before Six Days in Fallujah, an obscure Japanese game briefly caught a gust of media controversy when Amazon refused to sell RapeLay. In contrast to Six Days in Fallujah, RapeLay is a hentai game that offers players a platform to literally molest and rape women in public places. The visuals are hand drawn anime and belie the crude fantasy at the heart of the game. You control a pair of disembodied hands with your mouse and choose which parts of a woman you should grope. After the train arrives, you stalk the woman into a park and rape her. There are three different women that must be raped, the last of which is a ten year-old girl.
That is true indeed.The controversy in the West surrounding Resident Evil 5 and allegations of racism offers a counter-example. Like past entries in the series, RE5 is a surreal fantasy overflowing with disjunctive and impossible imagery. It's difficult to take it for a literal simulator when it presents a world where worm-like creatures regularly spring forth from the mouths and chests of the game's enemies. RE5 is a figurative game, open to player interpretation.
One of the most offensive scenes in the game involved a scene where some infected African villagers drag a white woman into a house to infect her. Many found strong rape insinuations in the scene. Literally, the zombies pass their undead infection to the woman by thrusting a bug-like pustule into the mouth, a process demonstrated in the game's opening cutscene. Since the actual infection of the white woman takes place off-screen many thought there was a sexual connotation because the infected villagers were men.
Not for kids.GTA IV also featured a moderately explicit portrayal of sex. Players could hire prostitutes and have sex with them in their car. Players would see the prostitute's head in Niko's lap performing fallatio, then she would straddle his lap and grind on him for a few seconds. There was no nudity or explicit penetration show, but the act was literal enough. Rockstar was initially forced to remove some offensive content from the game to win release in Australia and New Zealand, but an uncensored version of the game was eventually released with a R18 rating after a 21 year-old student complained to the ratings board.
There is no single videogame series more associated with controversy than Grand Theft Auto. GTA III will be remembered as the game that made Florida lawyer Jack Thompson a household name. It's also responsible for making Hot Coffee an internet meme, and spurring a series of a local interest stories linking videogames to violent behavior in teenagers. In the run-up to Grand Theft Auto IV last year, there was much speculation about how much further the next-generation GTA would push the envelope with violence and interactive sexuality.
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