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I will destroy you, ESRB.

Next-gen and other sites are reporting that Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Evan Bayh(D-Ind.), and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) have sent a letter to the ESRB encouraging the ratings board to "review the... ratings process."

The letter apparently follows the foursome's anger over Manhunt 2 receiving a Mature, as opposed to an Adults-Only, rating (it also might have something to do with that hacked content).

Here's a quote from the letter as posted by Video Business:

As you know, in June 2007, the British Board of Film Classification refused to rate Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 videogame … stating that it contains ‘unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone. In October 2007, the BBFC again refused to rate a revised Manhunt 2 stating that ‘the impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone … is clearly insufficient.

In sum, we ask your consideration of whether it is time to review the robustness, reliability and repeatability of your ratings process, particularly for this genre of ‘ultra-violent’ videogames and advances in game controllers.

Someone tell me how controller technology is the ESRB's business as well as violent?

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