Keith Vaz is the UK's former Labour MP for Leicester East, and for reasons known only to himself he's petitioning the House of Commons to take notice of Rockstar's upcoming game Bully, even though it has been neither rated nor released yet.
"Do you share my concern at the decision of Rockstar to publish a new game called Bully in which players use their on-screen persona to kick and punch other schoolchildren?" he asks of the Commons, making some assumptions as to the content of the game.
"Will you ask the prime minister to refer this video to the British Board of Film Classification? If they don't make any changes, will the government use its powers to ban this videogame?"
(Er, this "video"?)
The Commons apparently responded by pointing out that Rockstar has yet to release details of the game, that the content is yet unknown and there is no game to submit to the BBFC. Rockstar responded:
"More and more people are beginning to recognise that the stories in video games have as many themes and plotlines as books and movies. Just as books aren't judged by their covers, videogames shouldn't be judged by their titles or individual scenes."
One should have one's facts at hand when one petitions the government, wouldn't you say, ladies and gentlemen?
(Via GamesIndustry)
