Parent Gamer

     Grand Theft Auto IV or GTA 4 may be one of the worst possible games for young audiences. At first glance it doesn't appear to be too bad. Some guy wandering the streets stealing cars and running from the police. I mean, everyone has played a GTA game at some point. Right?      But let's look a little closer shall we? A disgruntled ex-soldier, Nico, from an unnamed Eastern European country comes to America in search of fortune and revenge. The game begins with no menu or options screen. Instead it opens with an immediate cut scene of two characters in a very, very sexual act. Not for kids.     Sex and nudity are prevalent throughout most of the game. The player can visit one of several in-game strip clubs at any time. There is also a feature where the main character can hire a prostitute . This will raise the player's health briefly. There is a short animation of a rocking car and then the prostitute exits the vehicle....

     The most common thing I hear kids say to their parents when discussing a questionable game such as Gears of War or Dead Space is "But Mom, it's just like Call of Duty!"      But the question I want to ask: Do parents really know what Call of Duty: Black Ops II is ?      A First Person Shooter (FPS) taking place in a fictional future and several missions in the 70s. The game often portrays excessively disturbing situations, for example a main character is forced to unwittingly kill his best friend.      I cannot express enough, Not For Children . This game is filled with Foul Language, Blood, Gore, and Disturbing Scenes. The single player campaign has characters being tortured and murdered slowly in multiple levels. It also displays plenty of blood splatters and in one level lots of beheading and dismemberment in slow motion. In another level two characters lose their kneecaps to a shotgun at c...