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UK Pol: 'Games Feature Rape'

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Posted March 3, 2008 - By Stephen Johnson

Keith Vaz, a British politician, cited evidence that videogames let players take part in all manner of violent things, including rape.

Vaz is helping a British law get passed that creates a body that can challenge the British videogame ratings board's decisions on games.

Here's what Zaz said: "[S]omeone sitting at a computer playing a video game, or someone with one of those small devices that young people have these days, the name of which I forget -- PlayStations or PSPs, something of that kind -- Well, whatever they are called, when people play these things, they can interact. They can shoot people; they can kill people...they can rape women."

In response to Vaz's comment about game that allowed rape, Edward Vaizey asked: "Is the honorable Gentleman aware of any video game that has as its intention the carrying out of rape or that allows the game player to carry out such an act? The BBFC and I are unaware of any such game."

Can you think of a game with a rating that features rape?

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