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   that's silly

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 12th, 2003 @ 12:04pm

   
   

   Maybe I'm not familiar with how things are down in New Zealand, but my guess would be that the censor positions aren't staffed entirely by kids. And I would imagine the grown-ups who work there decided that this game is too violent for kids. I think that's sort of like the people who work on movie ratings. They might watch a movie and say, hey, this is a great porno, but I don't think my three year old will appreciate it on quite the same level...

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   Re: that's silly

   

   Mike (profile), Dec 12th, 2003 @ 12:26pm

   
   

   That's fine. Then ban it for kids. Why ban it for everyone?

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   I agree with Mike..

   

   PhuzzyLogic, Dec 12th, 2003 @ 1:16pm

   
   

   Now do not get me wrong, I am not a real fan of violent games, but I must give in to the ability for adults to make their own choices.
   
   A Government should create rules for us to live by, not stop us from viewing things that only a small part of the populace does not like seeing (I.E. the Government Officials).

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   .nz goverment vs. the rest of the world

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 13th, 2003 @ 8:32am

   
   

   Kiwi's rule!
   
   The New Zealand government has a long history of making silly decisions with repsect to the Internet.
   
   The main difference between .nz government and everywhere else is that their list of silly decisions is far smaller.
   
   ...which proves a major conjecture of mine: smaller government does not necessarily mean better government; it just means less bad government (which pretty much obvious by inspeciton).

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   I know what I want for Xmas

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 15th, 2003 @ 12:54am

   
   

   As an NZer this is damned embarrassing and pointless.
   With the extra media coverage I can see the Aussie distributor doubled up & crying from laugter as he salutes the NZ govt over a cold beer at the Xmas company barbie (barbecue).
   They have only successfully laid down a challenge for kids to get a copy. For no other reason but for bragging rights, it's available in Aussie so every NZer has a friend, aunt, cousin or brother living there and guess what they want for Xmas.
   Why not let the mums and dads sort this out with the kids, and if you old enough to use a condom then you probable can work it out yourself.
   

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   Apparently this one _was_ simply distasteful

   

   man in black, Dec 15th, 2003 @ 11:02pm

   
   

   haven't played it, but the description I read in another article was that the gameplay is directed by an unseen director/narrator- of snuff films. The character you play is viewed in the third person. No goals other than to make the most thrilling snuff films you can manage.
   
   

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   Re: Apparently this one _was_ simply distasteful

   

   DarkPenpen, Apr 16th, 2004 @ 12:49pm

   
   

   the whole thing that i find distubing about it is like what the first guy said that what makes these people so much more unsucceptable to this. i agree teens and kids are not necisarily dumb or easily brain washed it is the way that they were brought up. And by the way whoever said oooo only new zealand it is not true many things like this have occured worldwide such as in greece where they tried to ban all video games on phones and internet as well. Even happened in the USA with things like GTA three vicecity and the successful banning of THE HORSEMAN OF APOCALYPSE i am a fan of extremely violent games and i am 17 years old have a 3.9 GPA am in national honor society and taking college classes as a junior and shophmore.(proof along with my friends who play video games like me all the time, whom two have 4.0 gpa's and many more with gpa's of 3.8 or higher.) and i have not portrayed any public violence (except my brothers which i am sure that all of you or atleast most can agree with me that they derserve a good smack to the arm every once and a while) These are my feeling and i would like to hear yours please e-mail me at [email protected] and write whether or not you would like me to use your responses for my college english paper.

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