Comments on: U.K. censors Rockstar's 'Manhunt 2'

Decision means psychological-horror title cannot be legally supplied anywhere in country. The Take-Two division has six weeks to appeal.

[umbrae]

Regardless...

No government should tell its citizens what content they can/cannot consume.

Manhunt was a lousy game, but no more violent than Saw or Hostel.

[toddmmccall]

Desensitized

This is another major move toward the desensitization of society. As you all know, progressive generations must take on the role of leaders and law makers. Their base personality is being shaped by their childhood experiences. The things you learn as a child coninually rise up in your personality throughout your entire adult life, whether you learned as a bully or from a bully, as a thief or from a thief, as a demure underachiever or from the same.
Therefore we must protect our children, our greatest asset, from desensitization by the greedy corporations who take no responsibility for the envorinmental or social impact of their products.
Bravo to the British censors.

[Darialan]

Desensitization?

Really, first off the game is NOT FOR KIDS! I use caps to emphasize this. Kids should stay far away from these games and even though I like playing violent games and watch violent movies off and on, I do think that these games sometimes require an AO rating(adult) as opposed to M. Desensitization is really a myth. Playing a game or watching a movie is VERY different from real life. The experience is so different that I know that if I were to see a real life killer spill guts, I'd probably be so shocked it'd be unbelievable. Some kids are learning to do things from these games and that is why I suggest AO rather than M. When you reach a certain age you are very unlikely to take the actions of a game and try to make them real. And I know the next thing I say has been said over and over, but I can't emphasize this enough and it cannot be said enough, because people just don't listen to rational reason. What about the players who AREN'T violent? Doesn't that say something? A vast majority of players don't even feel the urge to commit violent acts like these.

[Geek94]

14 Year old killing

How could the parents of the 14 year blame the game when the first Manhunt was clearly rated 18. Either the parents failed as a parent or the the bbfc failed to moderate the sales of rated games.

[Riquez-001]

because..

..the 14 year old was killed with a hammer in the park. The boy
who did it said he saw it on manhunt. To be fair, he was already a
psycho though...

[CBWolf]

Absolutely Ridiculous

While I have no problems with restricting violent media access to
minors, the outright ban of any piece of media is outrageous and
tramples all over the adult population's right to freedom of speech.
If they ever tried to pull something like that in the US I would be
raising a huge stink about it.