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Best Of The BBFC 10/01
Choice cuts from the British Board Of Film Classification
Written by Jon Denton, 10 January 2010
Ever been to the BBFC website? It can provide more accurate and succinct reviews of games and movies than you ever thought possible. Every week we'll sift through the BBFC's classifications and pull out the gold.
BAYONETTA
"In BAYONETTA, the bloody violence is frequent and consists of clouds of blood, arterial spurts and flying limbs during combat, as well as 'torture' moves in which Bayonetta puts her enemies on a rack, into a spiked cabinet and so on. Such sequences are not presented in a realistic manner - one involves pulling a female monster to a rack and tightening a chain - with resulting breast jiggling - before the victim explodes in a puff of blood and body parts"
Good to see that breast jiggling is being taken into consideration
DARKSIDERS
"There is frequent sight of spurting blood as the fantastical enemies are killed, and during a level the player can kill humans either with sword attacks or by throwing cars at them."
360Zine Issue 38
For our latest Bayonetta coverage, click here to download 360Zine Issue 38 for free."There is also moderate language in the game which includes uses of "bastards", "whore" and "bitch"."
TONY HAWK RIDE
"The onscreen animation characters frequently fall or crash into objects"
MODERN WARFARE 2
"The '18' category was, however, deemed more appropriate for a particular mission in which the characteristics of the violence differ from the rest of the game. In this mission, the player has infiltrated the terrorist group and joins them as they execute an attack on innocent civilians at an airport. The violence is bloody and intense, and aggravated by the fact that, unlike other combat sequences in the game, the civilians cannot fight back and are massacred. The player character can choose to join in the shooting or do nothing in order to preserve his cover, but he cannot intervene to prevent the massacre by shooting the terrorists since he is then 'discovered' and is very quickly overwhelmed and killed. The evident brutality in this mission does carry a focus on the 'infliction of pain or injury' which, along with the disturbing nature of the scenario it sets up, was felt to be more appropriately placed at the adult category and it is worth noting that the game itself gives the player the option to skip this mission without penalties to progress or achievements. Although the content of this mission was recognized as having the potential to offend, it was not felt to present a significant harm issue at '18' that would require further intervention."
ROGUE WARRIOR
"Stealth violence comprises 25 different 'kill' moves, that are randomly triggered (the player cannot choose between them), and feature such actions as repeated knife blows to the kidneys, a man's face smashed repeatedly into a wall, and a knife stabbed into the forehead or twisted in the back of the neck"
More next week!
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