read the article, it had some good points in there, some about the underrating issues, and from a company as notable as gamespy, thats good to hear, yet the didnt mention anything about how innacurate the ratings are
. again, my example of XIII. when i buy a game thats rated m, if its only for blood and gore and violence, with in reasonable limits that is, i have no problem buying and playing the game. when i checked the content descriptors of the game, and after playing the demos, i thought that the inrtense violence and blood may have been an overstatment, as the blood was monotone and violence, well, the game looks like a comic book, so i thought it was yet another game that was probably rated m for only some parts in it, as were other games such as halo, where the reasons for the m rating are not apparent until later in the game, but after playing XIII, wht i had suspected about the content descriptors was rite, they were overstated, yet they lacked to 2 ones that would make the game m wihtout everything else, and these would be the 2 that would keep parents from letting their kids get this game, whch many have since it looks like a comic book or cartoon. there is execessive use of the f word, and all enemies in the game, nearly every other word out of their mouth beigins with s, as in everytime some hear u move or see u, thats all they will say. nothing of this was mentioned as a reason for it being m. the other one is its depictions of nudity, as there is one part in the game where you have to go through to progress through the level, that contains drawings of naked women. there is no way to avoid this area, as it is the only way to progress, and again here, esrb said nothing. many parents will let their kids buy this game, because most are not as concerned with violence as they are with these other 2, and sadly, games that contain them are hardly ever given the content descriptors for that, and no one knows until they play the games for themselves. all this also applies the other way around, where some content descriptors can not be found in a game thats labeled woth them. so esrb's ratings are pretty much useless to accomplih their "goal" whch they say is to inform ppl on the content of games.