The Associated Press has a video report on the Manhunt 2 ban, including an interview with David Cooke of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the group which issued the ruling.
Submitted by CyberSkull - June 22, 2007 at 5:42 pm -0500
I'm rather disappointed by the video, They didn't show anything but abstract images leaving it impossible to form an opinion of the game. Furthermore, the person from the BBFC for the most part described most of the game in the stealth genre. Sneaking out of shadows and killing a guy. So what? That's Splinter Cell. Everybody played that. Pens as weapons? That's unique, but still raises no red flags. From this piece I don't think the average person could walk away informed as to why the game was banned.
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
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Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
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Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
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Comments
And they brought up the manhunt inspired killing again,didn't they find out he didn't own the game that the one that was killed did or soemthing?
it would be nice it rockstart could et slip the most disturbing clips in the package they sent the ESRB.
"chainsawing a groin" should be interesting to see LOL