Manhunt 2 rated AO and banned!

[BobtheCkroach]

I know this is console-related topic, but it's more of a debate topic than an actual console topic, so i think it's better here where it'll get more exposure.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172830.html

Basically, the game got an AO rating, and Sony and Nintendo both have clauses in the contract that developers have to sign that says they will not allow AO games to release for their system.

Censorship gone too far, or a legit move by the console makers?



My personal thoughts are that I have no gripe with the console doing this. However, it depends on how you market yourself. For Nintendo, the Wii is marketed as a family-friendly console taht everyone from the 2 month old to your 105 year old granny can enjoy. Not wanting to taint that with something like an AO game makes sense to me.

For Sony and MS (who isn't having Manhunt release, but commented that they don't allow AO titles either), I'm a bit confused. How can you advertise yourself as being for hardcore, adult gaming, but not allow this.

I'm not personally a fan of Manhunt - the whole premise sounds utterly disgusting. But I'm not sure why Sony/MS would step in the way of letting these "adult, hardcore" gamers make their own decisions.

Thoughts?

[Gun Element]

Im just curious as to what would have caused the rating to become AO. After playing the first manhunt, I can't imagine how the killing in this one would be worse, but I guess I underestimated my thought of how to kill people. :P (if that made sense)

[EXEcution]

Im just curious as to what would have caused the rating to become AO. After playing the first manhunt, I can't imagine how the killing in this one would be worse, but I guess I underestimated my thought of how to kill people. :P (if that made sense)

Well if you remember that GTA:SA had to be re-rated due to the "sex-mod" that was discovered by some hackers then you could probably figure out why Manhunt received the AO rating as well. If a game involves brutally murdering people then it's kinda ok for us to play it. However, anything having to do with sex is looked down upon as being dirty and immoral especially in America. Try making sense of that.

[Gun Element]

Well if you remember that GTA:SA had to be re-rated due to the "sex-mod" that was discovered by some hackers then you could probably figure out why Manhunt received the AO rating as well. If a game involves brutally murdering people then it's kinda ok for us to play it. However, anything having to do with sex is looked down upon as being dirty and immoral especially in America. Try making sense of that.

I see, I remember that. I just forgot all about the sex part because I was on a one minded track on the brutality of the game, since thats the whole point of the game.

:)

[Wiper]

Bought Manhunt few years ago (rated 9/10)....


....what a freakin' boring game it is! After hitting someone with a bat for the 5th time it gets dull....same old discussion as with Mortal Kombat, cuz ain't fatalities just meant to kill the other as brutally as possible also? And still there is/will be a new MK title for the Wii. I officially lost track :confused:


Wanna congratz those who wanna forbid this game with the extremely successfully advertising, made the first Manhunt popular also :rolleyes:


Bring it out, put an 18+ age mark on it and life happily ever after.Put the gore/pornographic game(s) in the adultmovie section, kids know they shouldn't be there :D


Ow and I hate censorship, think it's dangerous in almost every way:o

[He Is Legend]

F Tha System !

[BobtheCkroach]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6177498.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;1

UPDATE: A modified version of the Manhunt game was reviewed and given an "M" rating. The game is expected on shelves before Halloween.

No information was put out regarding what had to be cut to lower the rating.

[Caged Anger]

hmm, reminds me of the documnetary "This Film is Not Yet Rated"

[Goober]

This is from a site I found on the subject, I don't think the banning had anything to do with sex.

The British Board of Film Classification banned the game in the United Kingdom today.

In Manhunt 2, players can saw their enemies’ skulls in half; mutilate them with an axe; castrate them with a pair of pliers; and kill them by bashing their heads into an electrical box, where it is blown apart by a power surge. On Wii, players will not merely punch buttons or wield a joy stick, but will actually act out this violence. A reviewer for the gaming website IGN describes using a saw blade to “cut upward into a foe's groin and buttocks, motioning forward and backward with the Wii remote as you go.” The same reviewer calls Manhunt 2 the goriest and most violent game he’s ever seen.

[Caged Anger]

castrate them with a pair of pliers

Oh comon, we all know this was long overdue...


kill them by bashing their heads into an electrical box, where it is blown apart by a power surge.

Does anyone else find that hillarious? I read that and burst out laughing...


The same reviewer calls Manhunt 2 the goriest and most violent game he’s ever seen. [/I]

Meh, its still just a game and I doubt it will be the last one to make it a little bloodier :rolleyes:

[Xeno]

charmingly & spirit-ill