The National Institute on Media and the Family has just released their annual Report Card, and are advising parents to avoid buying certain games for their kids. All of the titles feature "M" ratings, but meh... parents are too busy to actually look at ratings! Here are the games to avoid, with PSP titles bolded:
Gangs of London * The Sopranos Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories * Reservoir Dogs Mortal Kombat: Unchained * Scarface: The World is Yours The Godfather: Mob Wars * Saints Row Dead Rising Just CauseThis list tells me one thing: the PSP really is for the mature crowd. Four of those titles are either exclusive, or enhanced on the PSP, making this system easily much more evil than the childish DS counterpart. At least the Institute recommends Loco Roco for the holidays, which should distract the kids from downloading porn onto their systems.
[Via Joystiq]
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11-29-2006 @ 3:18PM
Alien said...
But why exactly Mob Wars , why not the other versions , are they against the PSP or WTF ?
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11-29-2006 @ 6:50PM
Jeff Cossey said...
These games are not for kids, but this just tells me the PSP serves a much larger audience, there are many many kid friendly games for the PSP. As for what they said about the Porn on the PSP, it was so moronic to single out the PSP you can if you have will to do so make porn work on any platform including the childish DS via a flashcart.
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11-29-2006 @ 7:02PM
Kellydude025 said...
Maybe it's because the games are for adults, OR MAYBE it's because the list wants to save children from playing such terrible games... PSP SUX!!!
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11-29-2006 @ 7:09PM
Shane said...
Maybe they put Mob Wars on there not because it is bad but because it has the worst reviews of the Godfather games?
http://www.metacritic.com/search/process?sb=0&tfs=all&ts=the+Godfather&ty=3&x=0&y=0
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11-29-2006 @ 11:11PM
Jeff Cossey said...
referring to this statement
Maybe it's because the games are for adults, OR MAYBE it's because the list wants to save children from playing such terrible games... PSP SUX!!!"
Man you don't WTF you are talking about. Have you seen reviews on these games? They have received high marks for the most part. People sure have diarhea of comment mouth. The list is Valid and the games are for adults, but that does not mean the PSP sucks, prolly means that you are more into Pokemon and every other childish dimwitted game that comes out for the POS DS.
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11-30-2006 @ 1:29AM
pixelator said...
"because the list wants to save children from playing such terrible games"
That's funny, because it doesn't mention anything about the horrible DS KIM POSSIBLE, POKEMON DASH or ANIMANIACS games. There are more DS games that basically suck ass (metacritic of 50 or lower) than PSP games - and that's per-capita. Of course, DS trolls like you don't want to acknowledge THAT little tidbit.
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11-30-2006 @ 5:44AM
John said...
they are all pretty much the same game. roam around huge environment, kill people.
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11-30-2006 @ 8:25AM
KAZ said...
Strike 1 was PSX (not to be confused with original PlayStation or PSOne).
Strike 2 was PSP.
Strike 3 is PS3, Sony you are out!
And both IGN and GameSpot have rated more DS games in the 9.0 to 10.0 range than PSP games in that same range.
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11-30-2006 @ 11:18PM
Johnny-on-the-spot said...
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but "Scarface: The World Is Yours" isn't a PSP game. The PSP Scarface is "Money. Power. Respect." You'd think PSP fanboy would know better. (But if they don't count Scarface, then PSP games don't "dominate" the list. Talk about sensationalism.)
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12-02-2006 @ 4:17AM
Evil Genius said...
WTF? Just Cause is a game to avoid, it is not as if you can blow anyones heads up or anything.
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12-02-2006 @ 1:00PM
Virtuous said...
This is actually a list of titles people should go out and buy. "Gears of War" and "Rainbow Six Vegas" should have been included.
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12-20-2006 @ 3:55PM
DrewBob said...
this is a good list for parents to adhere to, maybe if PARENTS would take responsibility for the games their children play we would finally stop hearing schmucks like Jack thompson who think the govenmernment needs to censor every form of media to the exteme. But as long as public schools can be viewed as free babysitting irresponsible people will keep producing irresponsible offspring.
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