Okay, so yesterday my attention was drawn to this rather pathetic little article about 2K’s gaming masterpiece, BioShock. Yes, it seems that the scavengers of the mainstream media have finally smelled fresh meat and galloped over to stick their snouts in. In a move that can only be described as pitifully predictable, the first of the Little Sister exploitation pieces has emerged, claiming that BioShock "tests the limits of the ultraviolent gaming genre" by "enabling" players to kill enemies resembling little girls.
The Patriot Ledger goes through the usual sad and cliche’ tricks that we’ve seen from these types of articles in the past. It brings up an unrelated token murder in which videogames can conveniently be implicated, it focuses only on BioShock’s violence and not the reason or story behind it and of course, the article trots out some "expert" on the subject who has done "research" that proves […]
Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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