Alright here it is...

As a student attending a overpriced college, I'm going to buy this game if its released for PC. I'll fast to support Rockstar and I'll try my best to get others to purchase this game. I'll do whatever I can personally to support any game company willing to fight.

1. Cut it down for the consoles
2. Release it.
3. Port the uncut version to the PC.
4. ??
5. Big Profit.

If its released on consoles as M I wont buy it. I'll wait for the AO version on PC.

Friday the 13? Nightmare on Elm street? Aliens? All rated R. I saw them with my friends when i was 11. I turned out ok. Sure i had nightmares, who doesn't, but the fact of the matter is, politicians realize its voting season. What better way to get mom and pop's vote than to make it look like your doing something for the kids, even when your doing nothing.

I really hate to put it this way but its just a matter of older generations dying off and newer generations that are more familiar with games replacing them.

I love how everyone is blaming Politicians on this one. You'd think people actually read the articles on here. I find it somewhat amusing and amazingly scary at the same time.


People not one single U.S. Politician is trying to ban Manhunt 2. Manhunt 2 is not technically banned in the United States. It got an AO rating from the ESRB (which is an independent body, not government controlled.) With the AO rating none of the console manufacturers will actually license the game for their consoles.

Now in some nations where there is a Government controlled ratings board, these boards have refused to issue a rating for the game which is an effective ban as the game cannot be sold in those nations. The thing is those ratings boards are controlled by bureaucrats not politicians.

I'd rant on but it seems that people don't read the articles so it's doubtful they will read the comments, and understand anything they don't want to.

I was going to buy the original version - I will not buy the version made to please the likes of miami lawyers and their ilk.

R* and T2 just went down a notch.

What's next? Turning GTA IV into the Sims prior to release?

You know.. I find it absolutely hilarious that people are saying that movies like Saw are worse than this.

How many people died, in Saw? To me, the worst part of the movie was when the guy had to cut his own foot off, just in hopes of escape. So, you take that, multiply it by.. about 10, and you've probably covered maybe the opening area of Manhunt 2, I'm sure.

In the entire Saw series, there's.. what? 20, maybe 30 dead, tops? And all along the way, it's meant as a psychological game, to test the limits of what one is willing to endure, for the sake of survival.

There's actually a point to the Saw movies, beyond simple gratuitous gore. It turns it almost into a statement of art.

Everyone they've said about Manhunt 2 says.. you go around and kill people, because you -like- killing people. You're a total sociopath. Take as many down as you can, before they take you down. Survival is secondary.

There's no psychological lesson to learn in the game.. it's entirely about killing in the worst ways possible, and having fun doing it. You're a psycho, in a hospital, and they're trying to kill you. You, more than likely, belonged in there in the first place.

Now, I haven't seen Hostel, so I can't comment there, and other horror movies tend to have at least modestly happy endings. Either the murderer gets killed, or there's some other positive resolution. Well, what if you were doing the horror story from the perspective of the killer? And it turned out positive for them? They wanted to kill, and there was nothing to stop them. And as it goes, it just gets more violent and gory and graphic.. I think they'd have a hard time finding any honest people to market such a movie to.

@SilverStar
From what I hear Manhunt 2 might actually a point. He kills because psychological experiments messed him up bad. I'll have to wait and see if it actually teaches a lesson, but I figure it will. Also, Hostel is indeed pretty much all gore... and topless woman. But mostly gore. A happy ending for Manhunt 2 I think would be Danny finally escapes and finds out what happened to his family; who his family even is.

Some thoughts from my own (lame and non-linked-to) blog. Maybe they're better said here:

Yeah, some children could get their hands on this, much like I did copies of Playboy and slasher movies when I was a kid. I ask, what will the lasting effects be on those children, and what will the effects be on society at large if this game is released? From there, I ask what will happen if this game is not released?

Manhunt 2 is a title with limited appeal in the first place. Society at large wouldn't see any more change from this title than it has from the Saw or Hostel movies. Children, quite honestly, tend not to react so much to videogames as one might think. My answers to the former question is: not much.

If the game were to be kept from the market, I predict harder times for Rockstar and Take Two, both of which have a fair amount of money tied up in the project. The answer to the latter question could be layoffs to the companies' staff and harm to other projects as they are pushed out the door sooner.

SilverStar
so I find puzzle games and learn games pointless they should be BANED think of the kittens!

Also hate to tell you tis fact (last I checked) games are less absorbing than movies because of the interaction, the thinking and controls you have limits the absorption of the infermation of the game but then again its a game...for adults children should not be getting it but to block and ban it from adults is not good.

orangekrush
the ESRB is not a government body, some of the others are but the ESRB is not,what they are doing is what the MPAA did with the X rating in order to prevent and slow heavy content into the sheeple mainstream until they wont turn into a mob and take rampaging to the streets,however its still censorship but at a industry level, basically in order to not offend its family base it will oppose the highest rating level to show its family friendly...I don't know whos more blind tho the sheeple or the sheep herders that sleep with them...

my point being the BBFC is the same as the ESRB a "headless" detachment from the goverment it has no "control" over it but some influence,what has more influence on it and the ESRB is society in general.
the USK( Germany's software rating organization) is either part of the goverment or the goverment set about to bind some of tis ratings to laws..well if it dose not have a USK rating it cant be sold openly but tis still sold to non minors.

Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia) also is a governmental board if its not rated you cant even import it and I hear they confiscate banned items.

So really the only power the first 2 have is to slow the sales of it "AO" games can be sold with not laws attached(unless tis porn), its just retail stores will nto carry it.....oh well the ma and pa stores will have to pick up the slack :P

Oh and why do you keep having that south park gag where they don't know what the second to last step is? You think rockstar doesn't know what it's doing? Zippy your step 5 is people buy it out of spite or to see what all the fuss is about and then you go to step 5 which is bigger profit.

Father Time
caffeine gives my a a itchy posting finger 0_o
less proofing *L*

my point was they can ride controversy and put a dent into the stigma around AO.

I am starting to get flashbacks of the SNES/Genisis days,MS could support "AO" games like sega did I think for the 3600 it would be perfect but I doubt MS has the forethought to do it.