October 10th, 2007

The Controversial Manhunt 2 Gets Banned In UK

Rockstar Games gets into trouble again: I don’t know what this company is aiming at, but obviously they only attract controversial discussion with their violent and obsessing behavior games. Apparently they managed to get Manhunt 2 banned in the UK territory by The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

The game was originally refused back in June by the BBFC so that the game would not be sold legally in Britain. The exact words from BBFC were that the game had an "unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing".

The developers made many changes within the game engine and concept since then, especially the leveling down the amount of visual detail of some of the killing moves. However, BBFC still considers the game as still having some scenes with “casually sadistic nature”, and now any decision to change the verdict of BBFC must be taken by the game publisher Take Two Interactive. The game will be released on 31st of October in the USA.