The British Board of Film Classification is pretty funny. Okay, evil. I like to picture them as a group of blue-haired proper English grandmothers with velvet dresses, monocles and lorgnettes, whose delicate teacups rattle with consternation as they review the content of newfangled video games to see whether they meet standards of social propriety. I'm sure monocles popping out and landing in teacups with untoward splashes are a regular occurrence.Anyway, the big gun on my radar is Mass Effect, and if I wasn't already excited about this game, the dear old birds at the BBFC, of all people, have just given me a brain boner:
The game has been classified at '12' for moderate violence and one sex scene.The violence is undetailed and takes place in a futuristic setting. The single sex scene is brief and undetailed, although there is breast nudity in one version of the scene. The sex scene is triggered by the player making a series of choices about becoming more than friends with a colleague. If playing as a male character the scene can take place between him and a human woman or a humanoid female alien. If playing as a female character the scene can take place between her and a male human or a female humanoid alien.
...Are you reading what I'm reading? Humanoid alien lesbian scene, anybody? I am so there. Bioware, Microsoft, if you're reading this, GIVE IT please kindly provide review copy NOW OR I KILL U.
Sigh. Ahead of BioShock I had elaborate treatises on morality, choice and the use of children in games. Ahead of Mass Effect I'm excited for sapphic aliens. Think I'm a little tired, guys?
