Have these games just gone too far?
The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?”
That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.
With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.
As you continue to play, “friends” join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.
The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.
“This was a game that had absolutely no place on the market,” said Taina Bien-Aime of women’s rights organization Equality Now which has campaigned for the game to be taken off the shelves.
But the controversy that led to stopping sales of the game instead took it viral.
Hard to believe this game is free and has gone viral. Some people will download anything.
Borat said, “Where Pirate Bay find this?”
Hopefully it contains malware.
Haven’t the people on this site been complaining about restrictions on video games?
Is this thing Japanese by any chance?
Rape/S-M/Bondage/Torture has been a constant subset of the pron industry.
So after YEARS of FPS mowing down “mutants” and almost as long car games moving down pedestrians and cops, we would really have to be surprised if this wasn’t available.
Label and warn, sell to adults only if desired. Respect free speech.
We are so uptight in this country.
Remember ‘Night Trap’ for the Sega CD? Joseph ‘droopy dog’ Lieberman called the game “ultra-violent”, “sick”, and “disgusting”, encouraging an “effort to trap and kill women”.
The subway molester fantasy is practically cultural in Japan.
I’d say its better that they flog the bishop at home then on the train.
Yes deowell this is a Japanese game. An old one.
This must be a slow news day for CNN to dredge this up again. For the record this was a japanese videogame that was released nearly 4 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapelay
It was never easily available in the USA or other countries outside of Japan. Yet this game was used as an excuse for many politicians and activists here in the usa and the uk and other western countries to talk about how terrible videogames are. Gamepolitics has a ton of stories covering the outrage over the game slowly spreading from politician to politician and activist to activist http://gamepolitics.com/category/topics/rapelay
How much worse is this then all the games where the object is to shoot people to kill them?? Really??
What is CNN problem I thought Japan was one of the safest county’s in the world. Plus the people that was the spokesman for the anti game group was not from that county and could not buy the game in the US.
If women didn’t want to get raped they shouldn’t have vaginas and god shouldn’t have given men penises.
I hate hate the “The game made me do it” Defense
What’s worse than rape porn game? Sonic the Hedgehog rape porn game.
Again, these links are definitively Not Safe For Work.
http://neoeclipseworld.com/secretfiles/projectx/
http://img.lulz.net:8080/src/1268123826.zetar-02_projectx18.jpg
Statistically, violent crime has gone DOWN as violence in video games has gone UP. Working out your violent fantasies in a video game rather than in real life just seems the way to go. There are no victims here.
While there may be some examples of people acting out violence experienced in video games, these are exceptions not the rules.
Why is sex in video games treated like porn? In the movies, violence (which most of us would never engage in) gets a pass with a PG-13 rating, because we know its fake. Sex (which all of us engage in) is stigmatized with an R, NC-17 or X rating, because it requires real actors to be at least naked, and more in the case of porn. There is a certain realness to it.
And yet, video game sex is just as fake as movie violence, so why do we treat it like movie sex?
Does anybody have a tactic for getting past the donkey punch bitch on level 8? I can’t seem to get the timing right. Thanks in advance.
#4 watch the video.. Duh!
#6 Yes we Americans are extremely uptight, after all it was founded by uptight puritans.
#8 Exactly, since when is rape worse than a bloody brutal death?
#13 exactly! The people who play these games seem to be the most level headed people I know. Not everyone is, but that’s who the media focuses on, the people who are ALREADY mental and blame their crimes from them playing Doom.
CNN are a bunch of idiots. The best part is when the reporter says that “once a game goes on sale in Tokyo, it’s *DIGITIZED* and shared everywhere.” How INEPT are these people at CNN? Seriously?
CNN also comes off as if “Henti” is something new, and only exists in video games. Henti has always been about little girls with squeaky voices getting violated and dominated by men, and it’s been in the Japanese culture long before computers, the internet and video games (originally comics I believe)
Video Games does not equate to 5 year old kids playing them for crying out loud. Yet this news report says nothing about kids playing this game, so what’s the big deal? Do real women (not extremist feminists) really GIVE a shit? What if it was about a bunch of men or boys getting raped (that does exist in Henti) I don’t see men’s groups fussing about it.
And the point is. It’s JUST A VIDEO GAME! Books, music and movies portray this, but NOOO video games is the new EVIL from Satan. Play that video game disc BACKWARDS and you’ll hear Satan himself telling you to rape and murder people. Give me a BREAK.
And how do rape rapes compare between Japan and the rest of the world?
Thought so! We need games like this over here.
sorfle said,
And how do rape rapes compare between Japan and the rest of the world?
Remember that is reported rapes. There’s no way of knowing what actual number of rapes in Japan is.
The more I hear academics, religion and governments criticise computer games, the more I’m convinced that its actually a war on fantasy and an attempt to regulate the way you think. Whatever happened to allowing folk to think for themselves and make their own moral judgements? If we don’t actually harm anyone else what’s the beef?
The Japanese, to their credit, have some pretty weird and brutal fantasy in their media, but seem to be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. There appears to be very little rape and murder in Japan. Many Americans, and Australians for that matter, don’t seem to be able to make that distinction.
#18 If people start thinking for them self then what will people like Glen Beck,Rush Limbaugh,and Sarah Palin do for a living?
13. ArianeB
Statistically, violent crime has gone DOWN as the population average age becomes older.
What I find interesting/disturbing is what will happen when porn animation can simulate anything that is now outlawed? Or when animation adds just enough features to model a legal grey-area child. Like an alien child.
RBG