Those BBFC SOBs reject the Revised (M-rated) version of Manhunt 2

GIBThe BBFC has again rejected Rockstar's Manhunt 2 despite the developer making cuts to the game after it was initially banned back in June.The ESRB in the US has recently granted the game an M rating, clearing it for release in North America, but UK censors have decided that the content is still unsuitable for sale in the region.''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,'' offered David Cooke, director of the BBFC.''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 said.The BBFC said that any attempt to appeal the decision was now in the hands of Rockstar publisher Take 2.S.O.B.S! :evil:Those BBFC SOBs reject the Revised (M-rated) version of Manhunt 2
I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.Those BBFC SOBs reject the Revised (M-rated) version of Manhunt 2
I know i'm pi553d off with that I was hoping EU would see a release of Manhunt 2, I said before if R* cut it down anymore it wouldn't even be worthy of the title ''Manhunt'' anymore.
all violent games should be banned.hell ban all fps,tps.they incite violence by influencing our subcouncious part f our brain.games lead to increase of dopamine.
I'm actually glad they rejected it, I really don't want to play the ****ing censored version. We'll see how the appeal turns out. But I have to say that at this point Rockstar itself is kind of getting on my nerves - most European countries cannot ban games. RELEASE IT!
This game needs more puppies and happy faces. I've been saying that from the start.So out curiosity are you still going to be able to nab some other European copy of the game or are you shut out from Manhunt 2 due to the regional locks?
I wonder what the OFLC (Aus) will do? Which band-wagon will they follow! :o US....oorrr....the UK! *dun dun duuunnn*

Man, this annoys me. I seriously feel i should be able to make a decision as to what i can play and what is too violent. The game is based on PS2 Technology as well, so it's not like it's ultra realistic.
[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?
[QUOTE=''stvee101''][QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?[/QUOTE]

Agreed. It's a direct result of the stereotype of gaming as a ''kids only'' thing. Yet the average gamer these days, in some countries (Australia especially), is in their mid-20s or older.
[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I mean censorship is fine if they're just doing their job!
[QUOTE=''stvee101''] [QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?[/QUOTE]Wow you should email that to the BBFC that might get them listening, nicely put! ;)
You know the irony here don't you? According to Bozon at IGN with the ESRB cuts, the blurring filter over the executions, the game is less violent than Manhunt 1. A game the BBFC passed years ago. :?
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[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]

Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?

[/QUOTE]You have your opinion I have mine.

There are boundries you do not cross and for once the BBFC isn't backing down. Developers/publishers are always looking to push the boundries of what they can put in game just to make it sell better. This time it's a no go.

Maybe the BBFC are a bunch of beaurocrats, maybe it's a video game violence breeds murderers thing, maybe they do know nothing about games or even care about the industry but I dread to think what would happen if they weren't around.

There is censorship and boundries everywhere just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
[QUOTE=''gaminggeek'']You know the irony here don't you? According to Bozon at IGN with the ESRB cuts, the blurring filter over the executions, the game is less violent than Manhunt 1. A game the BBFC passed years ago. :?[/QUOTE]Is it nothing to do with all the crap that goes on in the news like kidnappings and kids with guns and stuff? Aren't they looking for something/one to blame? Hence them banning Manhunt 2? I could be wrong, but I thought maybe they're just pointing fingers now?
[QUOTE=''KingKoop''] [QUOTE=''gaminggeek'']You know the irony here don't you? According to Bozon at IGN with the ESRB cuts, the blurring filter over the executions, the game is less violent than Manhunt 1. A game the BBFC passed years ago. :?[/QUOTE]Is it nothing to do with all the crap that goes on in the news like kidnappings and kids with guns and stuff? Aren't they looking for something/one to blame? Hence them banning Manhunt 2? I could be wrong, but I thought maybe they're just pointing fingers now?[/QUOTE] Our ****** tabloid media loves to hype the adult videogame violence angles.
Rockstar is just trying to be edgy and push buttons now in terms of calling things ''artistic freedom''. That was cool in 2002. Give it up man.
[QUOTE=''zeus_gb''][QUOTE=''stvee101'']

[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]

Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?

[/QUOTE]You have your opinion I have mine.

There are boundries you do not cross and for once the BBFC isn't backing down. Developers/publishers are always looking to push the boundries of what they can put in game just to make it sell better. This time it's a no go.

Maybe the BBFC are a bunch of beaurocrats, maybe it's a video game violence breeds murderers thing, maybe they do know nothing about games or even care about the industry but I dread to think what would happen if they weren't around.

There is censorship and boundries everywhere just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. [/QUOTE]Yeah I've got a few words for you-Saw and Hostel.These movies were given,if I'm not mistaken,full release here in the Uk.Containing absolutely huge and gratuituous amounts of blood and violence,which IMO,didn't advance movies as an art-form in the slightest, just for show and the shock value.Yet the BBFC approved them.The hipocracy stinks.:?
[QUOTE=''stvee101''][QUOTE=''zeus_gb''][QUOTE=''stvee101'']

[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']I don't see the problem people have with the BBFC doing their job.[/QUOTE]

Wow,just wow.You don't have a problem with some unelected beaurocrat deciding how you, a responsible adult I presume,can and can't entertain yourself? Say I have a friend who is concerned with the content of some of these upcoming games,why don't we just let him decide what can't and can be released?My problem with the BBFC,apart from having no interest in videogames as an art form,is the lack of accountability and the double standards.How many bloody,gory and sexually explicit movies have been given the approval by the BBFC in the last few years?Yet they deny fully grown adults a legitimate means of entertaining themselves.Who gives these people that right?

[/QUOTE]You have your opinion I have mine.

There are boundries you do not cross and for once the BBFC isn't backing down. Developers/publishers are always looking to push the boundries of what they can put in game just to make it sell better. This time it's a no go.

Maybe the BBFC are a bunch of beaurocrats, maybe it's a video game violence breeds murderers thing, maybe they do know nothing about games or even care about the industry but I dread to think what would happen if they weren't around.

There is censorship and boundries everywhere just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. [/QUOTE]Yeah I've got a few words for you-Saw and Hostel.These movies were given,if I'm not mistaken,full release here in the Uk.Containing absolutely huge and gratuituous amounts of blood and violence,which IMO,didn't advance movies as an art-form in the slightest, just for show and the shock value.Yet the BBFC approved them.The hipocracy stinks.:?[/QUOTE]The game is interactive where as the films aren't. Also we're not talking about films, we're talking about games.

[QUOTE=''zeus_gb'']The game is interactive where as the films aren't. Also we're not talking about films, we're talking about games.
[/QUOTE]Nice job dodging the argument. Now, I don't live in england, but If I did-where do they get off telling me what I can buy and what I can't?