Female characters are taking the lead in some much anticipated new games. The downside of this is that they’re pretty violent. See USATODAY’s review of the much-anticipated “Perfect Dark Zero” for Xbox 360, featuring 2020 bounty hunter Joanna Dark (the game is rated “M” for Mature/17+ – “Joanna has an extensive arsenal of weapons”). Then there’s Kokoro the fighter geisha in Dead or Alive 4. Reviewer Matt Slagle of the Associated Press says there’s a reason for its M rating: “In learning how to play this game, I felt like Uma Thurman’s “The Bride” in Kill Bill: Vol. 2, as she’s beaten down by sadomasochistic master Pai Mei. Moving into gentler gaming fare, check out USATODAY’s Mark Salzman on three games rated either E (for “Everyone”) or E/10+ for the most popular handheld gameplayer, the Nintendo DS: Electroplankton, Lost in Blue, and Mario Kart DS. As for the game version of the box-office hit The Chronicles of Narnia, USATODAY’s Ginny Gundmundsen says the E-rated version for Game Boy Advance “focuses too much on combat.”
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