How can he say that? Manhunt 2 and all its controversy will ease in a just 2-3 month and then forgotten! That, will never damage the industry at all! if you know it is that violent, don't buy it and no one will hurt you for that nor that manhunt 2 will hurt the industry as he said!! he's just another guy who likes to add oil to the flame!

100%. MH2 is a disgrace to video games.

stop wasting time with commenting and just finish elite 4! ... its been WAAYYY overdue now!

to say that manhunt 2 will damage the image of the industry and cause it to lose it's credibility is both wrong and right, it supplies fuel for the fire of the people who want to see violent games banned, it does nothing to further the image of games as 'art' or even 'worthwhile entertainment' but to say that the industry will 'lose it's image' is wrong, due to the fact that the image videogames have OUTSIDE the industry is that of puerile 'murder simulators' ... so unfortunately the games industry is simply going to have to work harder still to become respectable, with games like manhunt 2 proving those who we would like to persuade 'right'...



what's the point in a game like mh2 anyway? rockstar have been courting controversy for so long it's the only thing they can do, they brought games to the 'mature' market really well with gta1, now they need to realise that simply making things more violent is working against them.

If your 17+, then you should have enough common sense to know it's a video game, not reality. Anyone who has found the "leaked uncut" version on the net should know by someone who has played it first hand that it's not as bad as people are saying. I've yet to see anything that hasn't been done in games before, games that have received a teen rating at that.



If this is considered bad, then mortal kombat and the entire GTA series should have been considered unplayable. The game is good if your wondering.

It WILL hurt the industry, but short-term, not long-term. The reason it will cause damage is because video games as a form of entertainment are in a fragile state. They are not as resilient as film.



So ultra-violent games will make it more difficult for games to gain worldwide acceptance as entertainment art....in the short-term.



In the long-term games like this push the envelope and widen the spectrum of what can be presented in games. If nobody ever crossed the lines in painting, theatre or film we would have stagnant, boring redundant work being published.



They have developed into the diverse, multi-faceted art forms they are today because of people who went against potential censors and red-faced special interest groups.



The industry may take a beating for this now, but will only come back stronger, more resiliant and better as a whole.

Games that get banned, inspire legislators to act, and bring negative attention hurts the industry. I bought the original Manhunt and was unimpressed with its uninspired gameplay. Run, hide, chop, repeat. Spend some time improving the gameplay. Ramping up the violence and gore doesn't make it a better game.

yeah, so what?



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Yeah man totally BS. Games aren't gory enough, I won't be happy till u can knife a girl and pull out her uterus through her stomach... hopefully that can be in manhunt 3

Here's a thought. Why don't people actually READ what it says in that little box on the back cover? Here, I'll make it easy for you:



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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater,

MATURE 17+

Blood and Gore.

Violence.

Language.

Sexual Themes.



Manhun 2,

MATURE 17+

Intense Blood and Gore.

Intense Violence.

Strong Language.

Strong Sexual Content.

Use of Drugs.

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There. Gives you a clear and concise comparision what to expect doesn't it? So Mr. Braben I call utter BS on your statement and call you a pathetic moron who is obviously sold to the people trying to ban violent video games.



I am not a complete idiot and I always read what to expect from the video game after checking its rating.



The statement: "Manhunt 2 was given a Mature rating, people who are accustomed to other Mature titles but with lesser degree of violence than Rockstar's highly-controversial game (such as the Metal Gear Solid franchise, for one) will buy the game, not aware that Manhunt 2 packs in higher levels of violence and gore......."



is next to calling the whole of Americans complete idiots who don't even have the necessary literary skills to read simple English.



Go ***** yourself.

Its better to kill someone virtualy than killing somebody in reality.



People should have their options to buy a "E" or "M" game. People wasting money and fighting for a game when they should keep maniacs out the streets.



When someone kills just for killing its not made its born.

i absolutly adored manhunt 1 as a whole, it had a good story that scared the shyt out of me and the sense of hiding in the darkness hoping the killer wont accidently bump into you



draw a square, okay now draw a tiny square inside about 5 percent of the big square , visualize you are the little square and the rest of the room is full phycopatic killers with weapons and a thirst for blood making crazy evil taunts at you.........picture you had to hide for your life and hope they dont find you in the room and someone is threatening to turn on the lights, and you are defenseless tied up to a chair



this is what the game feels like



i like the levels of killings you can preform ....theres a good story and the stuff in Saw 3 was more graphic than this, cutting open jigsaws brain and the guy getting his face shot off by a sawdoff, and the guy geting his parts twisted to the limit and you only have to be 17 to watch that movie



people say its because you can preform brutal executions, but really it was like picking one and watching a cutscene

the most brutal thing was setting up a guy and bashing his brains out against a wall with a baseball bat

if you think MH is too violent... I just saw an episode of south park where they were trying to get rid bums and stans dad blew some guys freakin' head off..



It literally showed his head getting blown off! Now if that isn't the most gratuitous thing ever, I don't what is. I can't image MH taking it that much further than South Park did...

i didn't say it sucks, and knowing rockstar this game is most likely very well made and is highly playable.



but where they did a great job making 'bully' a public spectacle only to show people like jack thompson they're idiots who don't know what they're talking about (that is, the game wasn't what he had scare-mongered about) they have not done that with manhunt 2.



have you not paid any attention to the news? the british pm has started saying he wants tighter controls on videogames, the shadow pm (tory guy... i forget his name, cameron is it?) is saying the same.

we have to face it, the videogames industry is entering a critical period, if it wants to retain creative freedom then developers need to show the 'rest of the world' that games are not all about killing/violence/sex, i enjoy a good killing game along with many others, but i know when a game is 'good' for the industry or not.



it will sell, but then weed sells and they've made that illegal... i don't object so much to making violent games just taht making them violent for the sake of it DOES damage the industry's already shaky image... and if rockstar etc persist then the 'jack thomsons' of this world will start winning.

...is that you find information about a game BEFORE you buy it, no one is gonna pick up manhunt 2 without knowing what they've got in their hands.

Those should be on the game cases or something. Like, always in the corner of the back cover, so they don't obscure the boxart, but you know where they are.



Wait, they already are?

Go and f* your mama braben.



You dont have any clue about games. Go and play your Tetris or whatever

Censorship will ruin the game industry more than violence will. Games aren't just for kids anymore and I for one would like to be able to make my own decisions about which games I play and not a room full of uptight old white dudes and a bunch of soccer moms.

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