Ratings body to tell gamers all

Thought Manhunt 2 being banned in the UK was unfair? Now you can see how the BBFC rate games on a brand new web site, designed with parental choice in mind ... but we think its good news for every consumer.  After all, don't we deserve to know how the BBFC works so that in the event of an obvious faux pas, we can complain in an effective way?
 
Parents BBFC - www.pbbfc.co.uk - provides detailed information about the content of 'U', 'PG' and '12A' films and all video games classified by the BBFC, and why they got the classification they did.
 
David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said:
"This is particularly relevant in the area of video games, where not all parents are as technology literate as their children. We have included all games, including '18' rated games ... because we know that parents come under a lot of pressure to buy the latest big selling title. So now when they are told by their offspring that 'it's only a game', particularly if it's rated '18', they can look at the new website and see what the game contains and why it got the rating it did."
 
So, if you're a parent and you don't mind little Johnny blowing zombie guts all up the wall, but vomit at the very thought that he might see a nipple or a mugging, this web site is for you.  Lovely.
 
However, we do welcome the introduction of a web site that details why each game got the rating it did.  This enables indy games designers to better understand exactly what milestones they must not cross if they want to avoid an 18 rating for example, as well as goes some way to showing a transparent attitude towards gamers, who buy these games and deserve to know why for example, if they're 15, they're being told they aren't old enough to buy an 18.
 
Whether you agree with their decisions or you don't, at least now you can know what those decisions are.  Would you use this site to see why your games got their ratings?  Let us know. Or perhaps you just want to have a fat go at the BBFC for banning Manhunt 2.