At last! We need sites like this.

I took a look at the Parents Approved age bit. It only goes to 17. Why is 18+ not the oldest age to choose. I mean, if a parent thinks that a game is not appropriate for any child of any age, why do they not have that option?

Not trying to criticize, but critique.

I like the site. I have not gone in depth into it, but I have looked around.

see, there finally using the common sensor- THE PARENTS!

A certain lawyer claimed awhile back that John Davison is a whisteblower on the games industry because he made this site.

@ gs2005

He's banned at the moment, I believe, what with the trial still going on.

....Like this maters? its not that parents arnt given a chance to find these things out its that they choose not to

Sarcastic Gamer did a little story about it a little bit ago
http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/01/too-simple-for-parents.ht...

to tell the truth I'm rather pleased with this site. while the reviews written on the site seems sometimes to exaggerate how violent some games are. like this excerpt from the CoD4 review:

"Bullets tear through body armor and into flesh, explosions throw combatants around like rag dolls, and corpses litter the battlefield in the aftermath of each skirmish."

while anyone who's played CoD4 knows that the blood only shows if the person getting shot is standing directly adjacent to a wall, and even then its nothing more than a simple blood decal on the wall that fades after a few minutes, and a grenade exploding at your feet only throws you back.

For the most part though they stick to a very literal interpretation of what is actually in the game.

we've all heard the many people claiming that the popular game
Mass Effect has a explicitly graphic sex scene, and you can even have
a homosexual sex scene (heh that sounded funny). While lawyers, politicians, and online "journalist"

(I quote journalist because while a journalist is supposed to do research on his or her subject. All to often online "journalist" in place of actually doing research they simply jump to conclusions, make up "facts" and start the article with the preconceived notion of 'all games are bad, and game developers want nothing more than to ""corrupt todays youth"")

Anyway, while most of the recent articles that have been posted here on GP about Mass Effect have been some lawyers, politicians, and online "journalist" personal crusade against sex in games and how this game has been marketed to little 15 year old boys and now their little minds are ruined because they saw about 10-15 seconds of bare HIP.

Needless to say I was surprised when the review from "What They Play" had this to say of the scene

"While described as “the sex scene” by anyone that’s heard of it, what the player actually sees is little more than the naked hips of one of the female characters as she moves up the body of her lover. The scene then fades to black."

in the same paragraph the author goes on to say that in order for you to even get the option of sex in the game you have to create a relationship between characters in the game and continue it through out the entire course of the game. The Author also notes that it is entirely up to the player to chose to or not to pursue a relationship.

all and all i was glad to see a site that was honest and even the reviews of the parents were very fact-based and truthful