“TV presenter” reviews violent games |
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BY Jason Cook March 28th, 2008 |
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File this under the “lol” department.
U.K. publication, The Daily Mail, asked one Anne Diamond (mother of four) to review a number of violent video games in response to the controversial Byron report. Poor writing and lack of expertise on the subject matter aside, these are some of the funniest reviews I have ever read. A quote from the Halo 3 review: “It is violent, but there’s hardly any blood … and my sons reckon it’s relatively non-threatening.”
This is like my grandmother reviewing the Saw films - “And then there was this machine that twisted the poor man’s limbs off. It was disgusting, I had to shut it off. Your grandfather nearly had a heart attack.”
Highlights include the DOA 4 review (”the girl characters are … half naked, with gravity-defying breasts.”) and the RE4 Wii Edition (”shouldn’t be allowed to be sold, even to adults.”).
This is the part where you smack your forehead.
March 28th, 2008
at 7:46 pm
Face meet palm. Play nice.
March 28th, 2008
at 9:17 pm
i garuntee u that this lady only played 5 mins or less of each game before handing it over to her kids to get her into the next part so she could complete this review, or she may have based it all from the first level which she had no chance of actually completeing
March 29th, 2008
at 4:10 am
Ok, so what’s the ESRB rating on these games?
Yeah, I thought as much. -.-
March 29th, 2008
at 8:38 am
Well the only part that worried me was not about allowing RE4 on the Wii to be sold to anyone - that’s never a good solution and I hope people don’t take her opinion too seriously - other wise she’s right in some places. The games are violent and should be played by older teenagers - but that’s why the games are rated to be played by such people :P
March 29th, 2008
at 3:41 pm
I facepalmed before reading the last sentence. “Dog’s necks wrung”