Commit murder with your console...

[v85rawdeal]

Guess what game is due out on the soon-to-be-banned-before-release list???

Manhunt II... on the Wii...

check out the link...

Murder Simulator


Come on, Rockstar.. tell us this is an April Fools Joke...

This is DEFINITELY on my shopping list...

[Demon Cleaner]

I liked Manhunt 1 on the PS2, but it was also kinda brutal in many ways. Should be cool to kill with the Wii remote.

[rayzorblue]

i hope you can hold a remote in one hand nunchuk in the other and strangle someone till there body stops convulsing and your left with a limp lifeless piece of flesh.

[Submeg]

It sounds extremely intense

[J T]

I never did play the original manhunt. Was it any good?

[Demon Cleaner]

Actually it was very good, and the possibility, that you could kill your enemy "normally" or in a more brutal way, added some pure fun. Nothing for kids under 18. But it's not beat'um up, but more stealth gameplay.

[v85rawdeal]

I personally felt that the original Manhunt got slated by the critics and shops unfairly.

It was one of the very few games that truly dealt with death in a brutally honest way. I personally find games that have you hack, main and kill and then let you move on without any feeling of discomfort should be criticised for treating death as something inconsequential.

Manhunt was never a great game, but it sure as hell had an atmosphere that was terrifying. If only more games could eat away at the player's nerves the way this game did, we might enjoy life that little bit more.

Personally, as a psycho-sick S.O.B. I will get Manhunt2 (probably on Wii) just because of the fact it could be fun, and very stress-releiving to play it.


Now where did I put that life-size Pikachu????

[v85rawdeal]

Guess what game is due out on the soon-to-be-banned-before-release list???

Manhunt II... on the Wii...

check out the link...

Murder Simulator


Come on, Rockstar.. tell us this is an April Fools Joke...

This is DEFINITELY on my shopping list...

Damn... Am I a prophet, or what!!!!

Ah well, guess I am gonna have to resort to getting the 'Pocket Guide to Murder' instead... aka the PSP version!

[AlexJ]

My plan to import this after the BBFC banned it has failed (It passed with an advisory 18-rating in Norway which would work fine on a UK PS2). It looks like Sony & Nintendo themselves have banned it after it was awarded a Adults Only rating in America (seemingly equivalent to a 18 rating in the UK). Apparently their policy is not to licence 3rd party games that are awarded an AO rating. This seems quite ridiculous. Nintendo I can understand, but Sony? Surely Adults can be trusted to make their own decisions. Imagine if the licensees of the DVD technology banned all 18-rated films?

The problem (in the UK at least) comes from too many shops/parents not taking the age ratings as seriously with games as they do with films and then mass hysteria in the media when a 13 year old kid decides to go and copy what he saw in real life and then say "they did it in the game, so I thought it was alright" (which personally doesn't wash with me - when I was 13 everyone knew it was wrong to go kill people in real life and could see games/films/books were just fantasy.) the fault is not placed with the parents for buying him the 18-rated game but with the developer for making the game.

[v85rawdeal]

I agree, after all, if you go into a shop and buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone who is under-age, you can get arrested.

It seems stupid that we consider ourselves to be one of the freeest (sic) countries on this planet and yet we have to be dictated to as to what we can or cannot play on our consoles. Rockstar themselves are not at fault, in fact, they could almost be applauded for showing some common-sense and not making the game on the PS3 or 360 (with photo-realistic graphics). I can imagine they are pretty p155ed off by all this themselves as I dont imagine that the game was cheap to produce.

It is just a shame that the media doesnt seem to be that interested in the story behind the game concept and just want to sensationalise the situation. Maybe what is needed is a good live debate on TV discussing the various forms of media-based entertainments there are and what should be banned and what shouldnt be banned based on a pre-determined set of criteria.

I for one can imagine a fair few books that would be banned because of their content. One book that comes to mind includes: incest, mass-murder, regicide, prejudice, violence and torture amongst the material in it... and yet it is readily available to anybody (including minors).

Mind you, if Rockstar cant legally sell it... they could always give me a copy ... just so I could give an unbiased opinion. (As Rockstar's No1 fan, I can guarantee my impartiality)