DeMoN said:
Wow. A "Z" rating? Never seen that before.
ESRB - Entertainment Software Rating Bureau AMERICAN ...based on Letters...frankly I think they are a bunch of dumb cunts who don't know how to rate games
C - Children
E - Everyone (replaced KA *kids to adults*)
T - Teen
M - Mature
A - Adult...even though we haven't seen one of these titles in decades...
PEGI - Pan European Game Information.....Europe....based on numbers
* 3 rating: Suitable for ages 3 and over. Contains very mild violence or suggestive themes. These include edutainment games. Similar to the ESRB's Early Childhood and the Everyone (low end) ratings and BBFC's Uc and U ratings.
* 7 rating: These games are the same as Early Childhood ratings but may include content descriptors like mild violence and in a rare case, very mild action violence. Suitable only for persons of 7 years of age and older and similar to the Everyone (high end) and the Everyone 10+ rating (low end) ratings in the ESRB and BBFC's PG (low end) rating.
* 12 rating: Suitable only for persons of over ages 12 and older. This rating contains mild action violence or suggestive themes and mildly suggestive song lyrics. Similar to the ESRB's Teen (low end) and Everyone 10+ (high end) ratings and BBFC's PG (high end) and 12 (low end) ratings.
* 16 rating: This rating is suitable only for persons of 16 years of age or older. Some situations include moderate to strong action violence, mild references to gambling, and rude humor, which makes this rating similar to the Teen (high end) and the Mature (low end) ratings from the ESRB and the 12 (high end) and 15 (low end) ratings from BBFC.
* 18 rating: This rating is suitable only for persons 18 years of age and older, and is similar to the ESRB's Adults Only and Mature (high end) ratings and BBFC's 15 or 18 rating. Graphic violence, strong sexual content, explicit references to gambling, and vulgar language (spoken and used in song lyrics) are permitted.
CERO - Computer Entertainment Rating Organization, Japan Based......Based on letters as well...broadens up ESRB's rating system a little
CERO A - Everyone (almost all typical japanese games
CERO B - Low Teen Rating (Unknown Soldier DS)
CERO C - High Teen Rating (some witch touching game we are not going to discuss
)
CERO D - Low Mature Rating (some graphic novel Japanese story books for DS)
CERO Z - HIGH mature rating (GTA, MadWord and almost every mature english > japanese game)
after playing so many Japanese games, you can figure out their system after a while
THERE YOU HAVE IT!
the big 3 rating systems simplified