SOMEBODY really ought to copy Rockstar and Take Two a memo on digging holes. With the fallout from Hot Coffeegate still landing half the industry up to its neck in crap they’re pushing ahead with a videogame entitled simply "Bully". Rockstar Games describes the upcoming title as one where gamers play a "troublesome schoolboy" who "stands up to bullies, gets picked on by teachers, plays pranks on malicious kids, wins or loses the girl, and ultimately learns to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school." Alright, so the pitch does have you playing the anti-bully-turned-bully, but really chaps you could have been more sensitive. The schools bullying watchdog, Bullying Online, here, has come out with strong statements against the game with the organisation's Liz Carnell telling the press: "This game should be banned. I'm extremely worried that kids will play it and then act out what they've seen in the classroom....Bullying is not a game by any stretch of the imagination. We have around four suicidal children contacting us every day." According to the organisation two million children in the UK are "bullied" in real-life school settings each year. Source: The Inquirer
Yeah, Rockstar is known for releasing games with explicit content, hopefully the game won't be as succesful as the GTA series Think of Manhunt and State of Emergency, both pretty gory games with lots of possible bad influence, and hope this game will follow the same path.
Yeah thats true about the explicit content part, i was in a shop last year and some kid came up to me and asked me if i could buy GTA2 for him cause he was too young (with his money of course)
Sheesh! That's rediculous isn't it? I guess you didn't buy the game for him, if you have children of your own it sounds even worse doesn't it?
I was going to buy it for him until he told me he was 12, so that kinda put a damper on things. I felt sorry for him cause i know how good the game is!
