BBFC rejects revised Manhunt 2
Category: Industry, Posted: 10/08/2007 at 07:16AM CDT by Eddie Inzauto, Senior Editor
Just when we thought the Manhunt 2 drama was over, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has refused to rate the game yet again.
Initially rejected by the BBFC and rated AO (adults only) by the ESRB back in June - circumstances that rendered it essentially un-marketable - Manhunt 2 has been edited by Rockstar to obfuscate many of its most violent scenes. It has since been granted an M (mature) rating by the ESRB, allowing it to be sold in North America, but UK censors are still not biting. According to the BBFC, the game's content is still too grisly.
"We recognise that the distributor has made changes to the game, but we do not consider that these go far enough to address our concerns about the original version," said BBFC director David Cooke.
"The impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone, or the essential nature of the gameplay, is clearly insufficient.. There has been a reduction in the visual detail in some of the 'execution kills', but in others they retain their original visceral and casually sadistic nature," he added.
According to the BBFC, the only route left now is for Rockstar's parent company, Take Two Interactive, to make a formal appeal to the board.
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Oh for the love of all that is holy. Will they EVER get their thumbs out of their behinds? This is ridiculous!
I don't see whats so bad about it, how violant can it really get to deserve this? *looks on wiki seeing as I'm in britain*
Thank God the US is a bit less thick headed and a bit more acceptant of violence.
they won't be happy till we're tickling people with flower power happy rays.
the US is excessively squeamish over sex, the UK/Europe is excessively squeamish over violence. at least that's what Ive always thought.
Why can't we just be excessively squeamish about that noise that you make when you scratch a nail against a chalk board? It's the only thing that deserves that kind of reaction.
hoboman's right. If this game had as much sexual content as it does violence (and trust me, there was a LOT in the original build -- I haven't tried the new one so no comment on that) the US would have rejected it again, too.
"visceral and casually sadistic nature"
They are keeping this game from getting a rating because of the very thing that are human beings. Well, enough of us that i can say this to be fact.
What I don't understand, is why games are treated so stupidly differently from films. Why can't they be censored equally? They haven't banned any of the Saw films, etc.
Or have I just been mislead as to how much violence is in Manhunt, but I'm damn sure there are films that must have more.