Posted by axxxr
Manhunt 2 Banned www.rockstargames.com/manhunt2
"A violent video game with "an unrelenting focus on brutal slaying" has become the first to be banned in Britain for a decade.
Manhunt 2, a sequel to the original and controversial game Manhunt, has been condemned by authorities for its "casual sadism" and "unremitting bleakness".
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rejected the game after finding it "constantly encourages visceral killing".
The ruling means the game cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK."
Posted by fatreg
roll on eBay..
Posted by dicky
play.com / hmv.co.uk should still sell it too.as they are based in Jersey / Guernsey and are not counted as part of the UK
Posted by Trev1982
That just shows how this country is going today on the news they talking bout releasing people early from prison cause there too many people in their, just make sentences harsher, ban a video game stupid but hey we let peado's off the hook but ban a violent game get a grip UK.
God i don't half rant after a few beers lol
Posted by Miss UK
Some physco kid killed a classmate because of that game thats why it's been taken of the shelves here in the Uk !
Posted by Trev1982
you can not blame a game because of a murder, you might aswell ban cars because someone gets run over!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by maggflodd
I can see why they should ban part II: ted bundy, rumsfeld, bush, blair, linsay england, saddam, idi, ... They all grew up playing part I - and see what it did to them! Hitler and 60000000 million germans playing gta, and bang, the world's gone bad!
Oh, boohooooooo! The congressional investigation of columbine concluded that vid's had nuddin' to do with it! The Va. Tech. massacrist didn't play games! Mind you, I found part I boring, so I won't play part II, simple! But I guess showing abu ghraib at tea time has no effect on kids?
Posted by mosdelln
On play its due for release on 13/07/2007
gonna get it...
Posted by dicky
blaming games for violent behaviour is bullshit .
ill still be getting this game,someway,somehow!
[ This Message was edited by: Dicky Snapples on 2007-06-20 08:48 ]
Posted by Kwiksta
I don't want this game but this is quite ridiculous. Just because some people can't differentiate between make believe and real life, others must 'suffer'. Just luck I guess that it was the U.K. - like games and consoles come out so early here!
Posted by fatreg
I also hear another game has been withdrawn as it shows CCTV footage of the James Bulger snatch thingy?
Posted by haynesycop
True and rightly so!
Posted by fatreg
yeah correct on that one..
not sure about the manhunt one though...
is there any actual evidence that games affect people??
Posted by maggflodd
On 2007-06-20 22:40:31, fatreg wrote:
yeah correct on that one..
not sure about the manhunt one though...
is there any actual evidence that games affect people??
But check out the link below to see how other media influence the very kind of people who rule over good'n'evil! A veteran of the US supreme court quoting jack bauer of 24 in a north-american panel debate over torture!!! i mean - that dude is totally in lala-world while debating the "merits" of torture:
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/june2007/200607Bauer.htm
Posted by axxxr
Check out the Top 10 Banned Videogames
Posted by maggflodd
I believe the issue of banned games in australia is a LOT more complicated than the media, esp'ly us and uk tabloids, make it out to be: due to some old laws they just can not rate a game "adult"! (this is very simplified) read interviews with some of the aussie censors of gta who actually say that they wouldn't mind if it were released...as an 18 + game, but "that unfortunately that option does currently not exist!"!
Similarily, in germany until recently censors wouldn't review foreign language movies, so that e.g. an engl. Disney dvd in a german rental place would carry a default 18+ sticker! No one claims germany "bans pinocchio" - yet it's very similar to the aussie "ban" of gta etc... they are not banned! they are unrated! It's a difference!!!!!!
Posted by belialwafu
ratings here in phil cant stop....piracy...piracy no ratings board...means everyone can buy one
Posted by maggflodd
On 2007-06-21 15:23:52, belialwafu wrote:
ratings here in phil cant stop....piracy...piracy no ratings board...means everyone can buy one
Posted by Cycovision
"Banned video game is 'fine art'
Manhunt 2 is described by its makers as an 'entertainment experience'
The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art".
Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said Manhunt 2 had his full support and that consumers should decide for themselves."
Full story from the BBC here
And quite rightly too! Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's fine art, I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of Take Two's comments.
This nanny state scenario which we are increasingly being subjected to is getting bloody ridiculous.
Posted by maggflodd
On 2007-06-21 18:30:14, Cycovision wrote:
"Banned video game is 'fine art'
Manhunt 2 is described by its makers as an 'entertainment experience'
The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art".
Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said Manhunt 2 had his full support and that consumers should decide for themselves."
Full story from the BBC here
And quite rightly too! Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's fine art, I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of Take Two's comments.
This nanny state scenario which we are increasingly being subjected to is getting bloody ridiculous.
Yo! to that
Posted by Evilchap
I hope they are also going to ban the News. I am fairly certain we saw more people die when the towers went down than all the kills you can clock up it that game.
Posted by Miss UK
Surprised how they havn't taken Grand theft auto away yet lol
seriousley though tv and video games affect alot of kids there was a program on tv in the week about it
Posted by lamont
im not really suprised that manhunt 2 got banned. There was no real plot to manhunt 1 except for the mindless violence........BUT MY GOD ITS FUN PUTTING A PLASTIC BAG ON SOMEONES HEAD AAND WATCHING THEM SUFFOCATE AND DOING IT FOR NO APPARENT REASON!
You can also very nicely chop someones head off in the game! You really cannot dispute the ban, the game really was SICK!
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lamont (+25, -0)
£500 for a games console? i dont care if it plays blue ray, billy ray, death ray or sting ray, i aint paying £500 for any console
[ This Message was edited by: lamont on 2007-06-22 23:39 ]
Posted by Trev1982
is there a country this is getting released in????
Posted by spikeyjac
play.com is still selling it?
Posted by dicky
^^ possibly because its only banned in the UK, and play.com is based in Jersey
Posted by Trev1982
On 2007-07-21 10:13:43, spikeyjac wrote:
play.com is still selling it?
not on the 360 tho, they only got it advertised for the ps3 and the wii when i looked
Posted by djtwistter
i heard this game was leached for the psp one
Posted by dicky
http://www.themoneytimes.com/[....]manhunt_2_title-id-108602.html
