I would put RE4 in before Umbrella Chronicles

Have fun wrapping up Super Mario Bros. 3 for that special stocking stuffer!

where's teh haloz?
so i guess it's okay to kill aliens in cold blood, as long as you're defending the planet?

Lol, Ive been playing the new Soldier of Fortune and I will tell you that it is 10x more violent than Timesift & Assassins Creed.

Can't they just say "every M game is not okay, every E game is okay"?

OR, just look at the ESRB rating on the box. Props to them for recommending Mario 3 though, younger gamers need to learn their history.

but re:uc is soooo much fuuuun.

i guess the zapper is too realistic.

re:uc needs moar goron crotch btw.

I mean...they forgot God of War along with that list.

and SMB3? Are we trying to gear kids towards a rare hunt game or Emulation? because out of randomness, i'm sure a kid who's reading that has a Wii to download from the VC.

I guess they'll be posting this list on every video games shop employee's face, so the parents who can't read the blatant games ratings have something to go by.

Congratulations: You spotted that The Darkness (rated 18) is not for kids. Morons.

aren't there ratings on these game?

I think all kids should go see The Golden Compass. It teaches them about the harsh reality of life.

Break Free my children, Break Free and play anything you want.

All young boys need to play Conan if only to learn how the real world operates.

Also, boobies.

They shoulda put in Neves in the recommended list. More geometry tile puzzles than anyone could ever expect in a single package.

super mario 3?! is this for people searching ebay for new copies?

NO MORE HEROES WILL CONQUER THE 2008 LIST!!!!!!!!!!

You can get Assassin's Creed for kids you can turn the blood off......

AVOID KANE AND LYNCH

Super Mario Bros. 3? Way to recommend age-old titles. I'm sure there are other child-appropriate games available these days.

And I'm sure Guitar Hero III features nothing but wholesome family-friendly tunes even children can enjoy mastering on the hardest difficulty.

Wow - Hannah Montana is recommended? You can't play a lot of those nasty violent video games once you're dead from a suck overdose, I suppose.

And hardly any of the ones they discouraged have anything gratuitous! In fact, COD4 contains one of the most vivid testimonies against violence available today. Not to mention, these are probably the same parents that endorse the people perpetrating violence overseas.

MediaWise 2007 list of games to avoid for children:

*snip list*

All of these games are M-rated, no? So, it stands to reason that based upon that, yeah they're not meant for children. Obviously. Well, I'm not sure about "Call to Duty 4" since that's not a real game, but "Call of Duty 4" for the DS is rated T. The rest (including the real versions of Call of Duty 4) are all M-rated, though, so yeah.

So... why was this list necessary? Are parents really that stupid that they can't just look at a letter on the cover of a game (not to mention the content descriptors that usually accompany that letter) to see whether a game is appropriate for their kids or not?

(Yeah, I am aware that the answer to that question is a resounding yes for a lot of parents, unfortunately. ¬_¬)

What they need to do, instead of listing a bunch of titles like this, is to simply point parents to this. If parents still don't get it after that point, there's little hope for them anyway.

@Holyetheline

What about Gears of War, that game is terrible for kids. Or is it too late for it to be on the list? Yeah Gears is too old.

Well, they do have Super Mario Bros. 3 on the list, so it's not like they care how up-to-date their lists are, apparently. Unless they somehow think the VC release of SMB3 is a new game or something. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the case.

@DrNutt

The ESRB can't use the MPAA rating system, because those are trademarks of the MPAA.

Regardless of that, I guess the ESRB could have made their ratings system easier to understand. Maybe. Somehow. But then I guess they didn't expect parents to be so completely retarded that they can't understand simple things like M = MATURE or E = EVERYONE or AO = ADULTS ONLY and so on. I mean, how and why is that any harder to understand than PG = PARENTAL GUIDANCE or R = RESTRICTED or whatever the MPAA uses? If anything, I'd say that the MPAA system is less intuitive. The only advantage that the MPAA system has is that it has been around for almost forty years and parents are just used to it by now. And if you look at its history, they've changed it (and are still changing it to this day, if that "Hard R" thing is to be believed) so many times that it's a wonder anyone knows what the heck it means.

As for the ESRB descriptors, more information is better than less information, at least to a point, and I don't think the ESRB comes anywhere near that point.

So, I guess Street Racing is ok, but stopping zombies isn't.

lol.

HANNA MONTANNA IS THE DEVIL!!!! Why in the hell would they recommend it??