New E3-Shown Games Push Sexual Envelope

Thanks to CNN Money for its article discussing the seamier side of E3's videogame selection, as it notes: "It's one thing to see Lara Croft's hot-shorts clad posterior while you play 'Tomb Raider.' It's another thing entirely to see the sagging, slightly lumpy and entirely unclothed buttocks of Larry Lovage streak across your screen." The article also discusses Singles, the Eidos U.S.-published title "best described as a naughty version of 'The Sims.'...[which] doesn't shy away from male or female full frontal nudity", noting that "the ESRB slapped 'Singles' with an AO rating", which is "essentially, an NC-17 or worse... Most retailers will not sell a game with that rating." Tom Marx of Eidos expresses his distress with this rating, arguing for an M rating instead, and noting as part of his argument: "I don't really think someone is going to get the same feeling of attraction in seeing a full frontal digital game character as they would from seeing that in an actor or actress."

Comments

Game mods!

[jvmatthe]

I sure hope end users can make their own modifications. Nothing extends the enjoyment of a game like a hot new mod. Mods I'd like to see:

• Frontal Assault
• Bombing Run
• Jailbreak
• Rocket Arena
• Assassins (awful, awful)
• Last Man Standing
• Team Fortress
• Capture the Flag
• And of course...Counter-strike!

Wait...this is the DooM 3 story, right?

;^)

I've been waiting for this for a long time

[arhar]

Yes!!! Leisure Suit Larry with full nudity! I've been waiting for this since 1988, when I was 7.

Re:I've been waiting for this for a long time

[OpMindFck]

My god. You were far to young for that sort of thing in 1988. It must have severely warped your fragile mind. At least When I played these games in 1988, I was much older and better able to cope with their deprave influences.

Ed Kearns
b. Dec 1979

Heeey....

[lumpenprole]

You got your Porn in my Videogame!

You got your Videogame in my Porn!

MMMMMMMMMMM..............

Re:Uma Thurman?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Uma Thurman's husband posting with her Slashdot Login? Seriously, Woman get a "free ride," because, biologically, they are a lot less susceptible visual stimulation than men. You know the joke "I get Playboy for the articles!" Well, females actually do read the articles in Cosmo. Blame testerone, not social mores, for the double-standard.

Re:HERE! HERE!

[fuzzybunny]

Point taken, but wasn't Last Tango in Paris considered "unsuitable for children" exactly because of all the sex and nudity?

Or, I guess they could have a "porn" rating, one for "artsy but adults only", one for "loads of nekkid boffing, but done very tastefully", one for "s00per violent and gross", and one for everything from "Samuel L. Bronkowitz Presents".

:-)

Re:For the religious right:

[Tezkah]

"The actions taken by the game industry are an affront to Christians everywhere," declared Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane Seymour, his wife Anne of Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on our 'traditional Christian marriage.'"

>.>

Re:Adults only?

[SuiteSisterMary]

Think of it as the forerunner of 'I'd hit it.'

Missed the best.

[SuiteSisterMary]

Nobody's mentioned Rumble Roses, the mud-wrestling game which advertises a 'hands free' cpu-vs-cpu mode.

Re:Adults only?

[Creepy]

My German's a bit rusty (15 years of disuse), but all those words are familiar -
"I heads for a dollar" or maybe "I head is for a dollar" (my German grammar is DOA - apostrophe necessary?)

I can see how that's funny :)