I'm sorry but how is this any worse than MK or any of the other ultra-violent fighters that have been released over time? MK4 was released at around the same time as this and it had far more violent content than anything in that video.

Obviously these politicians won't let us get what we want. They are the ones who are cruel and sadistic like you implied and much compared to Hitler.

The funny thing is that this once AO bound game looks pretty damn tame in comparison to some of the games currently on the market with M ratings.

We may as well be banning R rated horror movies...

Decent graphics for a PS1 era game, although the hit detection looks pretty bad. The moving camera is also very distracting.

Looks like a pretty generic Mortal Kombat klone.

He's right. I covered that story 10 years ago for C/Net GamerCenter - I think. I was working for way too many sites and mags then. But as I recall, it was canceled because it was going to get the AO and therefore never went officially "gold."

random j03 Says:
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 am
" knocking someone’s head off like it was a golf ball while you stand on their back and screaming fore is okay.."

Lol wtf?!

Looks kinda... repetitive.

@Coldsnap :

I may be wrong (obviously) but I think the hoopla had to do with not only the excessive and prolonged violence but the excessive hints at acts of sexuality. Based on my memories of the storm then, people's reviews above of its game play and so forth. There is a hypocritical and normally self-serving moral line. Developers of games are punished for crossing this line while movies, television, print and the Net get away with it hand over fist. Sometimes they get away with it because they haggle with rating boards or use lobby groups. Sometimes they merely coast on the first amendment rights they routinely go to court over protecting. Mortal Kombat and Eternal Champions both had some gruesome scenes in them but yet both found homes on the Genesis, the former finding homes on a lot more systems since it sold well. Plenty of games deserved the same spotlight but never got it.

Instead MK sold well, it got in the public eye and kids were found around it, flocking like drugged geese. Their parents slacked on their responsibilities, some store chains and arcade owners flagrantly watched as kids racked up their sales, and Joe Politician found a topic that he could milk for years to make it look like he was doing something society really needed. Above better education. Above poverty in America. Above the quality of health care and a cache of other more viable issues.

Everyone involved has dropped a tiny snowball, and now it's growing more huge every couple of weeks and politicians and others exacerbate the industry's woes. The industry's organizations CAN do more, in educating the public of the technology's worth and by enforcing a consistent system by which software is rated. Bob Shopkeeper CAN surely do more about kids buying games meant for adults and educating parents. I've seen it work and parents still reject the data as sound advise. But instead we allow laws to be make the world a "better place" where instead of free choice you have game ghettos within stores, higher prices, more hostile vibes, and a very nasty picture of the world of the future to look forward to.

BTW, how edited is the ISO I've seen around for play? I never really wanted to play it so didn't take the effort to grab it.

pssh, that is obviously an M rated game.

It looks like it's just a powerstone rip off, with the violence of Mortal Kombat, and an awful soundtrack.

Oh and what's up with the highlander powerup at the end there?!?

Don't forget the Eternal Champion games, especially the Sega CD version. Those were explicitly gory, they blow Mortal Kombat away. Even today it could still be considered extremely gory.

Eternal Champions wasn't so bad overall. I have played quite a few fighters worse than it was but never had the Sega CD version just normal Genesis. I wanted it to be able to attack the chihuahua with a rooster. I think everyone agrees with me that chihuahuas are evil.

I say save the game by editing it down to a Mature (M) rating and take the approach that South Park did with the whole Mohammad controversy. They could edit the most violent and pr0nographic parts and replace it with some super rude cartoon mockery of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), Sony, Nintendo, the ESRB, Jack Thompson, Sam Walton, Jesus, and George Bush by having them all poop on each other. That would make a point, and they can't censor that. Well, at least the USA can't censor that. Those Europeans will probably still not allow it...

Andre
the reason why AO is the kiss of death is because the industry itself hates it from the retailers that refuse to touch it and the consoles makers that have said they would not approve it on their system(Sony/NIN).

Frankly MS should jump on this and show adult class games have a place, and a home on the 360 :X

[...] [Via Game Politics] [...]

"The PC version was released uncensored, with an M rating I believe."

It had an M rating, but the the deaths from the "interrogation" scenes were done in black and white (originally they were in color), and the camera often panned away from the more brutal ones.

According to Patricia Vancne, lots of games have gotten AO for violence. Most are just edited to be Ms before release and the public is none the wiser unless told by the developer as with Manhunt 2 or Punisher.

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