By Brian Ashcraft, 3:21 PM on Mon Jul 31 2006, 899 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Game studio Eidos's adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's heist flick Reservoir Dogs has come under attack in the UK for being violent. The game has been given an 18 rating, and the British Board of Film Classification stated the game contained "nothing that is particulary stronger than things found in most 18-rated games." Tom McGhie, chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation, retorted:

Anything that encourages that type of behaviour, when police officers are suffering more attacks than ever before, should be banned. It's impossible to see how such a game can have anything other than a highly damaging effect on how people perceive and react to police officers.

The movie, meanwhile, with its scene of a police officer getting his ear sliced off and shot, is available throughout the UK. The logic astounds. Brian Ashcraft

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