Torture Game 2? Did the first one manage to slip under the radar?

I never thought we'd ever be in a position where obscure flash games would start gaining the public's eye.  Also, the guy is South African? Why should that matter at all to American laws/regulations?

This is different from SCMRPG because it's nothing (literally) nothing more than torture. There doesn't appear to be any story or reason for any of the stuff to be happening.

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Meh. People see want they want to see, I guess. Personally, I see it as nothing more than a lesson in ragdoll physics. The weapons and damage effects exist to display the accuracy of the physics model. It's not torture, it's not brutality, it's not evil-nasty anythingness. It's just a model to test and showcase mathmatical accuracy.

Being able to put someone's face on the ragdoll doesn't make it any worse. This game could do more good than any alleged harm allowing people to burn off some stress or frustration. Boss has given you overtime work when you had a dinner with your girlfriend booked in a nice restaurant? Put his face on there and get your virtual revenge! Been stuck in traffic for 2 hours when the trip should have taken 15 minutes? Release all that rage on this anonymous figure.

If political figures look at this and call for action, they must also immediately launch investigations into pictures taped to dartboards or punching bags, stress-squeeze balls that have any kind of face, etc., as this is no different except in terms of presentation.

Well I can't say I'm going to be playing with this game.  It will be interesting to see if any politicians try to use this to their advantage.  If they do I hope someone with half a brain throws torture practices like water boarding in their face when declaring this "appauling".

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Now the real question is, "Do they allow Water-boarding?"

That aside, I am not sure what the controversy is. It is not based on any real life events. There are no recognizable characters unless the player puts on in.

It may be a little lacking in taste, but hardly controversial.

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Fox has a report on it....

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=1787778&...

Oh and a Parents Telivision Council person is being interviewed.

Got back from playing it. The guy does not sceam in pain or anything when tortured he just sighs when he dies and then you hit the reset button. You have lots of weapons like chainsaws, spikes, a razer, rope, ak 47 and other weapons. The game does get boring after a few minutes.

"...it’s a computer game in which you, the player, are asked to do horrible, unspeakable, and totally sick, sick, sick things to a defenseless man-like person tied up in some dark room from which he has absolutely no hope of escape."

Or as it is also known....Following the Bush Doctrine.

No wonder Fixed Noise is all up in arms about it.

Oddly enough, I was slightly impressed by the effect of the razor.  VERY disturbing game, don't get me wrong, but I was struck by the razor's effect and how you could basically get down to the skeleton, hidden underneath.  Interesting effect, in my opinion.

Oh, and of course they'll get up in arms about it.  I assume though, that someone, somewhere will point out this is nothing like anything to be found in games that are sold.  This game is just out there...like porn or videos of insurgents being killed or Faces of Death or any other socially questionable/reprehensible stuff you can find online.

Unless they want to FORMAT INTERNET or something, there's not much to be done.

Sounds like one really screwed up game although I probably shouldn't judge this from the games I've played, hell I screwed around with the whole buddy game where you use a buch of items to beat around this simple circular guy, only difference is that the other is more gory and graphic.

The game is entertaining for a bit but no lasting appeal really. The fox news report is fully bull though. This 'popular' video game that your children are playing. They're just using scare tactics to trick parents to watch their damn broadcast. It's no wonder less and less people are watching the news. It's become full out lies.

What is stupid is that this is that persons expression. Why did they do it? I don't know. He doesn't really know either, but the point is that it's something on the internet. You do know there is a lot worse on the internet, right? Guess what, this game has nothing to do with anything. It's not American, it's not for sale, it hasn't been rated by the ESRB, nothing.

To me, it's like somebody somewhere showed a picture of a pberson with a giant screw through their chest, then everyone gets all up in arms about it, and the people say "relax, it isn't real. It was a metaphor for someone being screwed by the corporations." Oh wait, they had two pictures like that recently on Consumerist, but no one got upset.

Right now, legislators will jump on thier high horse as soon as anything comes out as a game. Shoot, it doesn't even need to have anything in it, it just has to be suspected of having something in it, and they will start proposing laws. This is one of the first times that they have been so blatent about it.

For me this game was really disturbing, and I didn't play it that much, but I never wanted a ban on it.  The Massacre RPG game would have been a great educational game if the gameplay hadn't sucked.

If you actually read the article, the conclusion of the Author was that it was Just a game, people should treat it as such. This author is on our side.

You know what? For every American story from here on out, I'm going to just post BUSH TORTURE MASS MURDER WAR CRIMES just to head everyone off.

Oh, and the answer to the question posed by the article: probably not. There is worse stuff on Newgrounds.

There was a terrible (in theme and gameplay) torture-themed lightgun game back in 1986 nobody cared about:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7328

I remember seeing this game at a family pizzarea arcade back in the 80's.

 You know, I'd never hear about these games if someone wasn't pitching a fit about them.

Yeah because games are ALL just for kids PERIOD. Faux news, for the sake of the future of the world STOP humiliating yourselves for just one segment.

It does the job as a stress reliever, though I do find it disturbing that you can upload faces to the ragdoll.

What really bothers me though, is that the PTC person claims she's sick of hearing the "It's just a game" argument. Also, she portrays TV violence as being "better" because it's passive. Hello? You're from the Parents TELEVISION Council. Do your job instead of flinging BS at stuff you can't do anything about anyway.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. We don't have to like them, but we can't allow each other force theirs onto people.

These 'idiots' are no different from us when trying to decern whatever it is that is wrong with our society.  Its only because we've been playing games for however long it is, that we know all the blame they try to place on video-games is bullshit. 

Oh, I just love it when Fox News weighs in on a topic.

It always does my heart some good, in the same way huffing paint does.

Sure, I feel all light-headed and funny, but my brain cells are screaming at me.

I love how they're "sickened" and "disturbed" by this simulated "torture" game, but when it comes to real life, most of the people at Fox news agree that it's a way to get things done.

Or this game, and others of it's kind need to be regulated, but Haliburton/KBR gets all of Iraq with no contest, for the most part, and profiteers off of the war.

"It's ok America, it's ok America. Your government has this all figured out. Here's American Gladiators, here's 37 channels of American gladiators. Go back to bed America. You are free to do as we tell you. You are free to do as we tell you. You are free to do as we tell you"

                                                                                               -         Bill Hicks

It's not like the doll screams when you hurt it or something. Nonetheless, I find it odd that someone would create a violent "torture game" and not have any particular usage in mind when he created it.