It's just a shame no one is allowed to play AO games (Adult Only Games).
It's like a spanking all over again. Why is there a AO rating possible if I can't buy it?
I can buy booze, smokes, and porn, but not a video game. That's weak.

"I respect the point the petitioners want to get across, but Nintendo and Sony still won’t let the game come out in its present state."

That is a completely separate issue. It doesn't matter that the console firms will not allow it, the problem is that even if they did allow it, it'd still be banned.

Being English, i'm off to sign it myself now, makes a nice change being able to actually do something, as most of game politics seems to be US only recently.

Then Manhunt 2 should be released on PC or Playstation 3 instead! After all, I do agree with all of you that Nintendo Wii is intended for children (although there is one horror game like Resident Evil 4 is being released into Wii)

Now I am coming to a conclusion that AO rating games shouldn't be released into Wii, let alone other Nintendo consoles.

I'm going to sign it. Because I feel that this is good for the gaming community. And for the sake of keeping the Video Game Industry up and running, I will, if it's the last thing I do.

Hmm... I've never lived there, but my parents are both English and I have a UK passport proclaiming my British citizenship. I think I'll sign as an expatriate.

beemoh
*headdesk+HEIL to the censor masters*
*sigh*
this is the kind of thing thats skipped when a gov and its rating system acts maturely.

Terminator44
it seems Germany has the better of ideas,a game thats not rated is not baned but not sold normally either but a adult is not stopped either, of coarse because tis a gray law,different regions within Germany can "ban" it.

Yes, clearly 18+ serves as the equivalent of "heavy" M, while picking up the scant duties of an AO rating, while 15+ is T and "light" M (Serious Sam, for instance, if it was rated by the BBFC). So I don't see why Nintendo or at least Sony would abandon it now.

Really, I just want to see adults able buy the game SOMEWHERE without getting arrested.

yeah, the policy is only for the ESRB, according the the wikipedia article:

"Manhunt 2 would have been released uncut in Scandinavia with an 18+ PEGI certificate if not for Take-Two's suspension.[12][13]"

and probably will be eventually... at some point..

Although, I will add as a disclaimer, that a lot of games that get rated 'M' in the US get rated 18 in the UK, It's really a question of the 'closest number'.

monte'
probably not since the world census is fry the witch, it would be interesting to see a game like DOAXX have topless models and be AO'd in the US yet M15 in Euro land.

Would the outcry kill the game or have it not released in the US..I dunno.

beemoh
:P
Do they ban the import too?

Its rather stupid tho a simple blacklist setup would fix this nightmare , manhunt 2 could be a "blacklisted" item at worst meaning it can not be sold openly or displayed in public but if you are a adult you can ask for it and can get it from "behind the counter".

Adults censoring adults is ridiculous 0-o

Matthew
Can not be sell it openly, or at all?
Germany has it where you can not openly sale it but back rooms and behind the counter you can.

They need to relook at their system manhunt 2 is a 18+ level game,GOW either of them could pass for M15.

We do have an 18 rating and it's applied left, right, and centre. As has been mentioned before, the last game to be refused a rating was Carmageddon, which was subsequently toned down and re-rated.

We do not have an unrated sticker for precisely the reason the ratings exist; unrated games/films cannot be sold.

Not being British, you shouldn't even if you could. And I agree with Zerodash above; the BBFC could volunteer to distribute a free copy of the game to everyone under the age of three and it still wouldn't allow the game to be released.

I respect the point the petitioners want to get across, but Nintendo and Sony still won't let the game come out in its present state.

Approaching the 2500 mark now. I just added my name.

Not that I'll ever play the game; but i very much disagree with it being banned.

http://www.petitiononline.com/4manhunt/petition.html

Just an update on my own petition advertised in other story comments and above. It is at 4198 signatures at the moment. Of course it will do nothing to alter the console companies' minds for reasons Hal and others have stated quite well. There is a stigma that affects business and for now it won't be tackled despite what some consumers want. The line is always pushed but you can't be seen stepping too close to going over it, which is why scapegoats are great to have around.

I want to thank those who signed it, especially those who signed it only once. I have found a lot of telling data in blog comments elsewhere about the petition. Those who made bogus comments or signed it many times proved the weakness of the online petition, especially in seriousness. I learned a lot about the many weaknesses of online petitions, as well as the strength of the Internet in getting a message out via informal social networks. Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony and Rockstar all gave me blanket email replies carefully worded. I have tracked the url's progress around the world, via blogs (including Wired), and other websites I never knew existed. The intention now is to analyze the data given in those signatures and then combine its message with some of the many issues brought up on blogs such as these. Once that is done I will make any document available via url for those who signed, and to those the petition addresses.

Pretty much a stupid idea from stupid rating authorities. i think its because they feel power mad that they want to ban it. because they can. Hostel (despite to me being a crap film for gore) wasnt banned. Land of the dead (i think it was. i know it was a zombie movie though) was banned a long time ago and after a lot of rethinking it was unbanned. This is what will probably happen with manhunt 2. But by then everyone will have moved on. They need to liven up and stop trying to spoil adults and 18 year olds fun and realise that the world we have been brought into is filled with violence and that we need a output to relieve our violent natures. and manhunt 2 would be the output.

I'm not british but I'm married to one and we spend long periods in Britain.
Plus, most of my games habe been purchased in Britain.
This Censorhip thing shows that the BBFC don't take us, adults, seriously and unable to make our own decisions.
Democracy is when people have the right to choose. The other would be dictatorship, and this is what these folks are doing.