Manhunt 2 Banned
SmoodCroozn
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<div class="IPBDescription">No killing for teh Brits</div><a href="http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615" target="_blank">http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615</a>
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The BBFC have rejected the game due to it's concept - the focus on the game is on stalking and brutal slaying, and the game encourages people to kill in the most unpleasant way possible. The BBFC claim that releasing the game, even with an 18 certificate, "would involve a range of unjustifiable harm risks, to both adults and minors".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
UPDATE: Also with Ireland
Censorship at its finest.
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The BBFC have rejected the game due to it's concept - the focus on the game is on stalking and brutal slaying, and the game encourages people to kill in the most unpleasant way possible. The BBFC claim that releasing the game, even with an 18 certificate, "would involve a range of unjustifiable harm risks, to both adults and minors".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
UPDATE: Also with Ireland
Censorship at its finest.
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I remember the first Manhunt had some <i>really</i> disturbing death animations you could pull off and I didn't really enjoy the way the gore was presented. It's not something I would want to play.
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<a href="http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615" target="_blank">http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615</a>
UPDATE: Also with Ireland
Nazis at their finest.
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Fixed.
That said, this game banning is dumb really. There are dozens of movies that're just as bad if not worse.
--Scythe--
Acutally, despite my Libertarian self, I don't find myself too offended or opposed to this.
I remember the first Manhunt had some <i>really</i> disturbing death animations you could pull off and I didn't really enjoy the way the gore was presented. It's not something I would want to play.
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If you're a Libertarian then I'm a fundamentalist Christian. The whole point of Libertarianism is that the government stays out of your life as much as possible. Their being able to control what <i>games</i> you play, in the privacy of your own home, is more Orwellian than it is Libertarian.
And DiscoZombie, the US has more flaws than anyone can list, but if you think it's anywhere close to being the worst first-world country as far as censorship goes, you're way off-target. I live in the United States, and I can go on any forum I want and say
<b>if I were able to kill George Bush, ###### Cheney, and the Supreme Court in an explosion, Pelosi would become president and be able to appoint a whole new Supreme Court and that would be <i>awesome</i></b>
and nothing bad is going to happen to me. I could probably show up outside the White House screaming it and they'd just send a security guard to shoo me away. If I wrote it on a sign I might be detained for a day or something, I dunno how that works, but I'm not going to disappear (unless I look Arab in which case I get to find out what Guantanamo's like). It's going to be a long, long time before the US ever tells adults that they cannot play a video game no matter what.
Edit: Richard Cheney, dear forum censors. Richard Cheney.
Just my two quite shiny cents.
I generally despise any censorship, but I will intentionally fail to defend this game from censorship. I oppose censorship, but I can't justify defending a game like this from my lack of interest in violence for violence's sake. I can admire it for creativity as an art, but it's really just another sucky title feeding money out of the dull principle that violence sells.
I generally despise any censorship, but I will intentionally fail to defend this game from censorship. I oppose censorship, but I can't justify defending a game like this from my lack of interest in violence for violence's sake. I can admire it for creativity as an art, but it's really just another sucky title feeding money out of the dull principle that violence sells.
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Free speech means nothing if we only support it for those whose views we do not find offensive.
Free speech means nothing if we only support it for those whose views we do not find offensive.
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I agree. I think what he (and I) was trying convey is "While I support this game's right to, you know, exist and stuff, I don't really like supporting it."
I agree. I think what he (and I) was trying convey is "While I support this game's right to, you know, exist and stuff, I don't really like supporting it."
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Yeah, but if you just ignore any challenges to stuff you find objectionable and only defend those you agree with, then you're not really supporting free speech for everyone, you're only supporting it for yourself, which isn't admirable at all because the entire world supports free speech for themselves.
The game does sound kinda sick, in the Wii version you use the Wiimote and Nunchuck to manipulate the character's hands to rip off the testicles of your victim. Really grisly but awesome, hopefully there's children in the game too. Haw haw.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->We should all rip our testicles in protest.
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I'll watch you do that.
No...
I'll PAY you to do that.
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You're weird.
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-- if you think it's anywhere close to being the worst first-world country as far as censorship goes, you're way off-target. I live in the United States, and I can go on any forum I want and say
<b>if I were able to kill George Bush, ###### Cheney, and the Supreme Court in an explosion, Pelosi would become president and be able to appoint a whole new Supreme Court and that would be <i>awesome</i></b>
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then name a first-world country where something bad would happen to you if you said that. oh, wait.
the united states is hypocritical to the point of being absurd. the perfect example is tv: swear gods are filtered, even the mouth of the person whos saying it is blurred. everything that could possibly relate to sexuality is also blurred without a second thought, because dear god we cant have our children watching naked skin. but then, with violence, its a whole different story. theres violent tv shows for all ages, from cartoon network stuff to god knows what kind of late-night decapitation highlight reels.
i really dont understand the deal with that, but if its violence you (as a nation) get off on then be my guests, though it is kinda creepy
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<a href="http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615" target="_blank">http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=10615</a>
UPDATE: Also with Ireland
Nazis at their finest.
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Fixed.
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from encyclopedia dramatica:
""As a thread grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."
the united states is hypocritical to the point of being absurd. the perfect example is tv: swear gods are filtered, even the mouth of the person whos saying it is blurred. everything that could possibly relate to sexuality is also blurred without a second thought, because dear god we cant have our children watching naked skin. but then, with violence, its a whole different story. theres violent tv shows for all ages, from cartoon network stuff to god knows what kind of late-night decapitation highlight reels.
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And in lots of European countries it's the opposite: violence is less acceptable and nakedness moreso. They're different cultures.
We should all rip our testicles in protest.
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Yes! Let's all get girlfriends! Wiminz beware!
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I wouldn't watch that. I wouldn't pay a man to do that.
You're weird.
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Me either, but it's funnay.
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UPDATE: Also with Ireland
Also with Germyn and the rest of the World except iraq and USofA
Censorship at its finest.
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maybe you get a version who you can kill plush bunnys with cotton <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
And in lots of European countries it's the opposite: violence is less acceptable and nakedness moreso. They're different cultures.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
no it isnt the opposite. both violence and nudity (in media) are acceptable in most european countries. but in america, nudity is prohibited while violence is endorsed.
My only real complaint with the game was that it became less interesting once you became used to the brutality.
I'd personally recommend Manhunt as a game to be played with the lights out and the volume up.
We should all rip our testicles in protest.
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Ok, so manhunt2 gets banned for the player being able to rip someones testicles.
Hmmmkay.
Why did they not ban Never Winter Nights?
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BTW this thread should not be about US versus UK. Censorship is censorship. You can say you don't agree with the US's view on what should be censored, but we're talking about the UK here. It seems like even if a thread has something to do with a problem with another country, someone has to bring the US in anyway. Grow up.