Ah, America! Land of the free, home of the brave apple pie-totin' soccer mom and all that. Where else you can buy as many guns as you can carry and then some as well as stock up on enough ammo to open your own gun shop, even if you're not a sportman, true firearms collector or Ted Nugent-influnced hunter/environmentalist. Unfortunately, it's also where a mere video game trailer or single screenshot can send you out to use those guns on an unsuspecting public... according to some idiots around the country who think video games are a (if not the) primary cause of violence these days.
One of the side effects of all this pesky behavior by politicians and concerned parents groups that leverage needless fear of the medium into censorship. These "adults" should have been less worried about little Johnny possibly going postal after a session of Super Smash Bros. Melee and a hell of a lot more concerned with real life stuff such as global warming, the housing market tanking, SEC regulators being conned by Bernie Madoff, setting up a true national health care system so everyone who needs a doc or dentist can get care and so forth. Instead, it seems as if the ESRB is either bowing under pressure from these groups or like the MPAA, has become invaded by string-pulling puritans that fail to recognize games are an entertainment as well as art form, just like books, movies and television.
Anyway, if you're reading this, you're here to ogle "M" (Mature!) rated game stuff. If you're a parental unit looking to see what the kids are asking for this holiday season, good for you. If you're some whippersnapper looking for cheap thrills, you're being watched, kid. No, over there... a little to the left... liiiiiiittle more... ah - gotcha!
In any event, enjoy... while you still can. At this rate, we'll have to open up game trailer speakeasys...
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