Those Sims, they are a kinky bunch. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) slapped the Everyone 10+ rating for EA’s upcoming The Sims 3 Create-A-Sim demo, listing their reasons of what some may deem ‘of offense’.
This is a simulation game that allows players to create and customize a character to use in The Sims 3 video game. Players can determine their character’s age, sex, clothing, physical features, and personality traits. While the outfits are not especially provocative, one character (in a cutscene) is depicted in her underwear as she raises an eyebrow to the mirror—the camera dashes past a close-up of her buttocks. Characters can be dressed in teddies, camisoles, underwear as they emote their “Flirty” and “Great Kisser” personality traits: licking the fingertip and getting sizzled (by imaginary stove); blowing a kiss. The game also features the personality trait of “Slob,” which (in clinical terms) triggers the flatulence sound effect, the clenched-buttocks-and-attendant grimace, the wafting hand gesture. Taken together, the comic mischief and the mild suggestive content account for the E-10+ rating.
I suppose they are just doing their job, but they make it sound like your purchasing some hot sim-on-sim action. Hey kids, put down your videogame and instead watch television…cause surely you know there is nothing bad shown on cable. 😛
Thanks to InfiniteSims for this ‘hot’ tip
Haha, they really do make it sound pretty risque in a sense don’t they? And of course EVERYONE is offended by flatulence. 😛
To me, the ‘sexy’ side of The Sims as a series has always been pretty over the top and pseudo-comically overblown, rather than outright raunchy.