Truth in Ratings Act Reintroduced 302
dropgoal writes "Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas (and GOP presidential candidate) has reintroduced the Truth in Ratings Act. Like the previous version that failed to pass last year, Sen. Brownback's bill would make the FTC responsible for overseeing the video game ratings system and possibly result in a unified ratings system for games, movies, and TV. The ESRB would also have to review all game footage before issuing a rating. Currently, the ESRB hands out ratings after viewing a reel with representative content prepared by the developers. Sen. Brownback thinks that's not enough. 'Video game reviewers should be required to review the entire content of a game to ensure the accuracy of the rating. The current video game ratings system is not as accurate as it could be because reviewers do not see the full content of games and do not even play the games they rate', he said."
We can all relax now (Score:5, Funny)
~S
Speaking of rating..."/.". (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot is absolutely wonderful! And no I'm not getting a lifetime subscription, and a free car.
Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Date based or procedural content? (Score:5, Funny)
Duke Nukem Forever? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The full content? (Score:4, Funny)
Just hand the guys a giant text file of all the game dialog so they can scan it for profanity and racy phrases. Then do a long and tedious slideshow of all the wireframe models and their associated skins. Seeing as they only seem to care about nudity and gross obscenities, this should work just fine.
Truth. Ha. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Isn't Brownback a Republican? (Score:5, Funny)
That's "Mr. Timberlake" to you, buddy.
Re:Date based or procedural content? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Speaking of rating..."/.". (Score:2, Funny)
--CmdrTaco
Re:The full content? (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you so much for volunteering for this! We thought that we would have a hard time finding someone for this particular project.