The Right Spin

Having actually played Narc, I thought I'd throw my few comments into the ring. The game actually isn't half bad. You're a cop whose basically out of control (ala Deep Cover, Training Day, or any other cop film starring a good looking african american male in the lead.) whose succumb to the evils he faces daily. That classic (used all too often) Nietzsche quote immediately springs to mind. "He who might take lest he thereby become a monster." Which in itself is a strong premise used in various ways throughout many different games (Vagrant Story, Devil May Cry, even th e vaunted Metal Gear Solid 3). The visuals are pretty crisp and graphically equivalent to most games on the market currently, the soundtrack rules, it has voice overs that haven't been used to this startling effect since the aforementioned GTA3 (Grand Theft Auto for the unintiated), but the actual controls are subpar and the profanity is gratuitous (and that's being kind). But theb thing that rocks (and perplexes) me the most is the actually price strategy on the game. Which might lead one to thinking in whose hot little hands was this intended to go. In a move very similar to what Sega and ESPN did a couple of months ago with they're football title vs. the console football giant known only to fans as "Madden". Midway released the title for $19.99. And what screams buy me to an under 17 year old kid more than less than 20 bucks. Hell CD's cost 75% of that, but they're not buying those so my point there is invalid.

I've also been on the otherside of the counter too. Peddling all sorts of violence to the "tweener" set, and I'd have to say about 3 out of 10 parents actually come in the store with their children to make a purchase. What's more shocking is that only 1 of those parents will actually even know what an "M" rating on a game is. Or even care. It makes me wonder why parents worked so hard to lobby for a system to be put in place that they obviously don't acknowledge. It saddens me to think that alot of parents ultimately think it's America's duty to parent their children, and when we do they get angry and file lawsuits.

You can't have it both ways America.

Lusipher, you are 100% right. The point you make about so many parents refusing to take resposibility for the upbringing of their children relates directly to earlier posts concerning public education.