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CERO (Japan's ESRB) has announced its revamped rating system. There are now two separate ratings for "M" type games. The difference? A title gets a "D" rating if it's made for gamers 17 years old, while the "Z" rating is for adults 18 and up. A clever way to brand games as "harmful."
The games currently calling the "Z" rating home include:
- Driv3r
- Max Payne
- killer7
- Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto III
- The Getaway
- The Getaway: Black Monday
- Berserk
- Simple 2000 Vol. 61: The Oneechanbara
- Simple 2000 Vol. 80: The Oneechanpuru
The "D" rated games after the jump.
- Ninja Gaiden
- Dead or Alive 4
- Fable
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Outlaw Volleyball
- Resident Evil 4
- The Matrix: Path of Neo
- God of War
- Dead to Rights
- Rumble Roses
- Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya Digest Volume 3 (a gambling game)
- Sukinamono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai!! (boy's love sim)
It's not because between the ages of 17 and 18, humans undergo such a tremendous emotional and physical change that this distinction was made. CERO's "Z" rating is Japanese for video games-as-porn.
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