If parents see the ESRB rating and still allow their kids to play this game, that's their decision. It may be poor parenting, but regardless, it's their call.
But forget that for a moment. This article is discussing nine-year-olds playing Bulletstorm. They go on to say that the rating isn't enforced in stores (that's a lie, I got carded when I bought Silent Hill: Homecoming). May I ask why it would matter or not if the rating was enforced in this case? You're talking about a nine-year-old. They probably don't have $60 to spend on a video game, and even if they do, they can't get to a store to buy it by themselves. So again, whether the rating is enforced or not doesn't matter, because a parent would still have to bring their nine-year-old to the store to buy the game, and they would see the rating. If they still choose to buy it, that's a separate issue.
To say that video games lead to sexual assault is ridiculous. Most people play a video game and realize it's JUST a game. I've spent the past month playing Dead Space 2, but I'm not going out and severing people's limbs. Because people who are in their right mind don't do things like that. If someone plays a video game and decides to copy the actions from the game in real life, then there's a larger issue at hand.
Lara Logan was sexually assaulted in Egypt, and that's been all over the news and the internet. Does that mean if a child happens to see that, they're going to go out and assault someone? You see worse things on the news than you will in a video game. Things that ACTUALLY happened. Real life. Not fantasy.
I'm not saying that I think the material in Bulletstorm isn't questionable. And I won't be playing the game because it doesn't interest me. But seriously, it's time to come up with a better argument. Stop blaming video games for violent crimes. If someone is going to attack another person, it's not because they played a video game. It's because they're psychologically disturbed.
And this article just made me miss half of Community because I was so annoyed that I had to post about it here.
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