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Chris of Sydney said:

This game encourages violence and agression. It should be banned to keep our children safe from this exposure to society. Shame on you people for puting your own selfish needs before that of our young generation.

I replied:

Chris of Sydney. You couldn’t be more wrong…

Why on earth should the wider community miss out on a fun, healthy experience of playing a good game? What’s your issue? Do you fail to recognise that it’s a parents responsibility and decision as to whether their children are allowed to play this game. You do realise that like myself, the average gamer is well into their 20′s? That is to say, legal adults able to make their own decision.

If feeble minded people like yourself are lead to violence and aggression because of outside elements like Video Games, Movies or Music then I suggest we as a society pass a law banning people like you from leaving their homes in order to protect the community.

Now go back under your rock.

All a fuss about this.

It’s an exciting time for PC gamers. PC strategy gamers that is. IGN reports on Creative Assembly’s latest – Empire: Total War. I’ve been a fan of this series from the beginning – Shogun: Total War moving on to Medieval: Total War, Rome: Total War and then finally Medieval 2: Total War. This game looks to be shaping up as the next evolution in not only this franchise but also the rival Civilisation series.

How I’ve spent many hours in Civilisation 4 playing as the English colonising the world… now I can do it in the Total War way – with real-time battle control! Awesome!

It looks as if my PS3 will have to take a back seat when this comes out.