 The game itself includes a filter that players can activate with a password so that violent or sexually explicit content is censored . When the filter is in place , the screen blurs during the most violent sections , so the player can hear the action but cannot see it . Sierra officials believed it was the first CD @-@ ROM adventure game that self @-@ censored itself upon command . Sierra producer Mark Seibert said : " There are some pretty gruesome things , and we 're concerned about how that is going to impact parents who want to buy a good game with a good story line . " But Gene Emery of The Providence Journal said the censoring option was " unlikely to stop any computer @-@ literate 10 @-@ year @-@ old " and by scrambling portions of the videos that might be considered offensive , " the censorship option actually makes the explicit scenes seem even worse than they really are " . 
