Manhunt 2, banned in Britain and Ireland, AO-rated in North America, and likely to be banned in Australia, now faces political opposition in Italy.Cruel and sadistic, with a squalid environment and a continuous, insistent encouragement to violence and murder.
Andrew Eisen: That article is over five years old, Uncharted. A fun blast from the past though.02/12/2012 - 10:47pm
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Uncharted NES: Critics: 'Left Behind' game glorifies violence- http://tinyurl.com/wu64s02/12/2012 - 4:34pm
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Zen: I felt Brutal Legends was a funny & beautiful look at the world of rock from Double Fines point of view. The only parts I wasn't hot for were the RTS bits as it felt forced. Otherwise fantastic.02/12/2012 - 1:34pm
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DorthLous: Passed 1.5M$. And I'd also say that Brutal Legend is far from being a bad game. I just think it was a few levels under what people expected from the people working on the project.02/11/2012 - 8:25am
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Technogeek: Brutal Legend wasn't bad so much as "marketing had no idea how the game actually played", causing it to suffer accordingly.02/10/2012 - 10:38pm
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RedMage: It looks the CIA's website has been DDOS'ed. Anon?02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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RedMage: Brutal Legend.02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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ddrfr33k: Has anything Tim Schafer ever made been of crap caliber? I'm struggling to think of one...02/10/2012 - 7:37pm
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Guamish: I think it is in good hands. Tim did a game for the GDC award show and that was fun for how short it was.02/10/2012 - 12:22pm
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Andrew Eisen: It'll be tragic if the game ultimately sucks.02/10/2012 - 12:17pm
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james_fudge: $1.3 million02/10/2012 - 11:32am
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Uncharted NES: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: ... Yet]- http://tinyurl.com/7r2twrg02/10/2012 - 11:21am
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Andrew Eisen: Damn. Double Fine's Kickstarter fund has already passed a million dollars.02/09/2012 - 8:16pm
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Andrew Eisen: Audrey didn't quote the sassy parts. Here's IGN's article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1218359p1.html And here's my original post: http://tinyurl.com/7y68a3902/09/2012 - 7:50pm
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james_fudge: I hope you some said something sassy! Where's the link?02/09/2012 - 7:46pm
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Andrew Eisen: Hey, neat. IGN quoted a blog I had writen only two hours earlier. I certainly timed that one pretty well.02/09/2012 - 7:38pm
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Andrew Eisen: Toki Tori has been added to the Humble Bundle for Android.02/09/2012 - 5:11pm
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james_fudge: Thanks for the heads-up DorthLous02/09/2012 - 4:33pm
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DorthLous: Will do, my apologies.02/09/2012 - 4:14pm
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Andrew Eisen: I appreciate the heads up but please keep typo alerts to the specific article's comments or PMs.02/09/2012 - 3:33pm
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He clearly didn't even check the game, or any of the online available clips about it. The words he used to justify his decision are basically a copy and paste of the BBFC board words.
As a Minister, you are supposed to KNOW and get PERSONALLY involved with any matter you intend to issue a decision for. In addition, a ban is just a shortcut and not the most responsible choice. That would be EDUCATING consumers so that no parent buys a 18+ rated game for their kids.
But shortcuts are easy, why go for the responsible route and respect freedom of choice?
Ban censorship.
Anyway, I knew it (especially after the Rule of Rose) that these macaronians would join the ban-frenzy.
Europe sucks. End of story.
Hmmm.
"Manhunt-hunt" ?
"Italian Cannibal films like Cannibal Holocaust as i assure you they are gorier and nastier and more brutal then anything in Manhunt 2."
Not too mention also Italian Zombie films like Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2 or simply Zombie) and Hell Lake.
I mean why can't these politicians just give it a rest and let us decide what we want? These control freaks like this shouldn't exist in our planet.
Example: Cannibal Corpse - Rancid Amputation
Torsos hang from their own intestines
Raped of all bodily extentions, stumps wreathing in a sludge
Like infection
Suffering through a Rancid amputation
A pulsating artery accomanied by some veins, slit with no restraint
Sacs of pus develop
My muscles tighten as I feel the rush
I look at your body starting gush
I slice through the limb,
a human dissection portions of half-eaten flesh in my mouth
starting to chew your now bleeding stump
I will swallow your pus your own rectal slime
I'll force you to drink
Vessels explode as needles injected
Uncontrollable
My brain tormented
Slit from head to toe, die through the torture
Disease engulfs you
Internal rot
Fresh cut wounds, beginning to clot
Ripping through flesh is what I do best
Tear off an arm
Amputated neck
Eyes removed, cranium smashed
Decomposing remains, severed in half
Dying slowly never to rest, nerves are quivering as I trip
Removal of life on the blade of my knife
Inserted in your spine, smashing through bone
Feel my hell, I feed on fright
Rape the limbless cadaver
i don't know what the NTSCers are going to do... its unlikely to come out in japan, and the other NTSC countries have the ESRB AO rating problem.
but is this not an issue for the ECA? what are they doing about this?
look up Italian horror movie directors and the movies they have put out. you'll probably come up with a pretty gory list.
Now I don't even want to discuss about how absurd and simply impossible is to "monitor the Internet" (the sentence itself is basically as meaningless as "monitor the universe"), what is clear is that this person is a dinosaur that doesn't even have a slightest idea of what the Internet is, what freedom of choice is, and how to approach technologies that are more recent than a crystal set.
'Nuff said, we italians can only hope that this guy gets sent as fast as possible where he belongs to: the dinosaur museum.
P.S. "Bandwagon" in italian is "Diligenza" and, yes, heavy metal bands normally perform around italy and nobody ever raised an eyebrow. :)
...but it was right on the money as far as the overall effect on Take2. Consumer demand will go up in response to all the hubbub, and the people who want it WILL find a way to get it. GTA IV is still the company's blue chip player, and sales from that will obviously dwarf whatever losses they sustain from Manhunt 2's limited distribution.