Rockstar pushing the envelope or just pushing on the law's nerves?

[W1nTry]

Manhunt 2 banned from UK shores

Cumulative, casual sadism

By INQUIRER newsdesk: Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:03
VIOLENT VIDEO GAME Manhunt 2 has been banned from being sold in the UK.

Censors at the British Board of Film Classification refused to give the game a rating. They baulked at its "unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying".

The game runs on the PS2 and Nintendo Wii consoles and is made by controversial game maker Rockstar Games.

David Cooke, director of the BBFC, said of Manhunt 2: "There is sustained and cumulative, casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game."

Rockstar has six weeks in which to mount an appeal. µ

[rb]

It's been given a AO rating stateside IIRC. Then this coming on wii also ?

[Redlum08]

Yea, if it comes to the Wii then it definitely promoting violence, cause with the Wii-mote, you could swing it around like you swinging a CUTLASS to chop people to pieces. LOL....

[Synchronomyst]

They have special weapons for the Wii verson.

[New Era Outlaw]

I hope one of them's a pair of nunchucks. Brutal beatdowns are nothing unless they give you the option to be all Bruce Lee about it. Wa-TAH!

[Synchronomyst]

If they do, I forsee more broken TVs.

[Qloxx]

Wii no Nintendo promoting AO games the worle is comming to an end i say an end.