It's rated M. Kids shouldn't be playing it.
It's actually rated AO, which is hardly a fair thing. Why don't things like Postal, GTA 5 and such get an AO rating? You clearly in GTA 5 for the story get a torture scene, but that slides past with an M because of what? Probably bribed to let it pass, or they never seen those pieces of the game.
I an loving the game so far. It does not deserve all the hate it is getting and it is exactly what the developers promised and then some. A dumb, violent, and over the top shooter.
8/10
A game based off of nothing more than mass-murdering innocent people...you want kids playing games like that?
Oh noes.. the kids might get their hands on it?! Better start lobbying against such things, especially since we have too many preferring to be in a nanny state. Just ship such people over to the UK, where they have silly laws for things like this.
It's for the parents to decide besides, this isn't even sold on shelves because of it's rating. They purposely went to the ESRB for a rating, and got slapped with the AO rating which they used for shock value. Due to it's rating, all the "news" sites jumped on it as a result. Since they can get their views / clicks for the day, because it's of course the most "controversial" kind of game in this day and age. 2015 and we're still afraid of things, because parents flock together making excuses for their laziness.
I don't care for how any parent wants to act, don't lay the blame on others because of your choices. Should we start burning those filthy books? Or how about we ban movies as well? Do you actually monitor your kids, while they go online and probably look at things they shouldn't too? This isn't the fault of anyone but the family, just it's always easier to turn a blind eye and shift the blame.
Only reason a company will cave in is because, everyone on mass spams them until they roll over. Then they use this as a means of saying, they conquered a giant company who was pushing filth on their kids. You often then wonder, why a company sticks to what it can see as safe. Because pushing the envelope leads to a backlash, then having to retreat with their tail between their legs. Losing probably millions upon millions, due to a possible recall or some other reason.
Why did this come about? To push the envelope obviously, and it comes off as rather pathetic. Only the big companies can't be seen as doing this, because one bad thing will lead to many ignoring them. Especially wide scale it could have an impact, on jobs and much more but people clearly don't care about any of that. Smaller teams can come together and make something like this, push the limits further and then move onto their own actual dreams.
Also no I won't make a TL;DR because people should read what I said.
