Manhunt 2 rejected by Sony and Nintendo

Posted Jun 20, 2007 at 7:19PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Tags: ESRB, Sony

Rockstar may be used to their mature titles getting plenty of controversy, but Manhunt 2 proves to be the most problematic. Not only was it banned from the UK and given a preliminary Adults Only rating, Sony and Nintendo are also turning their backs on the game supposed to be for the PS3 and Wii.

Kotaku claims to have received word from Nintendo, saying:

Games made for Nintendo systems enjoy a broad variety of styles, genres and ratings. These are some of the reasons our Wii and Nintendo DS systems appeal to such a broad range of people. But as with books, television and movies, different content is meant for different audiences. That's why the ESRB provides ratings to help consumers understand the content of a game before they purchase it. As stated on Nintendo.com, Nintendo does not allow any AO-rated content on its systems.

Adding insult to the injury, even Sony which has been receiving much third-party support from Rockstar is ditching the game. Their statement reads:

For questions or comment regarding the rating of Manhunt 2, please contact the publisher, Rockstar. Currently it's SCE's policy not to allow the playback of AO rated content on our systems.

Anyway, unless the ESRB softens up or Manhunt 2 is placed under some censorship, the publishing company is in a bind. The game's already got a smaller market, no thanks to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), and now it might not even see the light of release at all.

GTA: San Andreas was able to avoid the AO rating of doom, so something could happen for Manhunt, too. We'll keep you posted on any new word.

Via Kotaku

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Comments

# grammatical error — Guest 2007-06-20 14:04

taken from bottom of first paragraph

ating, Sony and Nintendo are also turning their backs on the game supposed to be for the PS3 and Wii.

ITS FOR PS2, NOT PS3.

# what do you know.... — Guest 2007-06-20 14:08

Yea....karma's a b!tch lol. First they opt for exclusive episodic content only on 360, and now Sony is washing their hands off of their game LOL. I bet Sony would have stuck around longer if take two hadn't done what they did.

# Fuucking die — Guest 2007-06-20 14:29

Hey thanks "Jack ***** hole *****er" i hope you burn in hell. You dont know what violence is ***** head and you deffanly dont know what cause's it. What you did just now could caus alot of it and ile tell you y. When you take somthing that people love away from them "AKA a good game violent or not" pure anger always follows. This type of anger is the core of almost all violence.

Im warning you if this game gets cancealed ile go buy a scope for my riffle and your gonna probly find yourself dead with in the next couple of mounths jack ass. Even if i dont come try to murder you ass some one els will.

You sir are a fuucking demon that hurts everything thats good.

# hated this game — Quixand 2007-06-20 14:35

from the get go...

maybe they could just get another 50 million from microsoft... people say that the XBox has a hardcore fanbase anyway.

after all their hardwork they have no market for their product.

# Ratings????????/ — Guest 2007-06-20 14:47

It seems that SCE likes to make an expensive system, but the market is towards the 17 and under age group? Why would SCE not publish games with an AO rating? If the reason is to prevent the 17 and under group get their hands on it, then its bullsh*t if you ask me. I did not spend $600 to play games like Mario, Sonic, Crash, etc... I want realistic, world dominating, war driven and mass killings in my video games. If it wasn't for these types of games, I would have to resort to the real life violent instead...lol. Word to SCE...If this is the case, I want my money back.

# FU_CK YOU NINTENDO — Guest 2007-06-20 14:48

FU_CKING A5S_HOLES

# absolute rubbish! — Guest 2007-06-20 14:48

I keep on forgetting that there are no responsible adults in the world. Everyone is doing the right thing banning Manhunt 2, afterall, if it was released, we would all turn into ravin looney murderers - YEAH RIGHT!

Dont you not feel your being treated like a kid? Whats the worst thing Manunt can do? Its bound to be hugely popular, especially with all this press, making all the companies involved a few million!

Its rich coming from sony too. How many movies are released on their label that involve extreme gore, violence, sex and probably a rape scene along the lines. Yet they wont let an animated masterpiece on their system. And theres Nintendo trying to reach a wider audiance and all they are doing is keeping there childish image and stopping their own growth from happening.

Lets pray its leaked onto the net, as by the looks of things, no one will get experience Manhunt 2.

# ***** you Jack — Guest 2007-06-20 14:56

Jack I will personally take my homies to show you some true love tonight. You have ruined the lives of too many to get your own spotlight. Thanks alot buddy. And thanks to the ESRB too, you guys love making us bored right?

# ...wtf? — opzero 2007-06-20 15:03

Why would Sony and Nintendo wait THIS long to make this announcement? Rockstar has already invested a boatload of money into the production of this game, and at the last minute Sony and Nintendo have the balls to say no. They should have known right from the get-go that Manhunt will more than likely receive an AO rating, and should have made this announcement BEFORE Rockstar got too involved in it.

Let's hope the ESRB has taken some groovy uppers when they review the game, because that's the only way it'll achieve an M rating.

# well — hush404 2007-06-20 15:12

First off it's for PS2 not PS3. Second... Manhunt2 will simply not exist if it stays an AO game and neither Sony nor Nintendo will allow it on their systems. They HAVE to change it to get a lower rating.. or the game will no be released.

# Dude!!! — Guest 2007-06-20 15:15

This suckS..........

Sony I wanT this game in My PSP......oooh Come on!!!I don't wanna make anybody ungry but that gaMe "DARKNESS" its really Gruesome.... I don't see the difference, Why manhunT 2 ??

come on Sony!!! I have been waiting for this game for ever.

Just dont't sell the game to stupid kids...

# ugh — Guest 2007-06-20 15:24

what exactly is supposed to be so bad about this game? any specifics? i dont understand how can be that bad..

# *****bags — Guest 2007-06-20 15:38

Well, im actually not gonna point fingers at jack thompson for this. I blame england. Who else agrees with me?

# Freedom......my ass... — Guest 2007-06-20 15:57

Microsoft will see this oportunity to take the game to the 360. They'll update the graphics a little bit and bam!. Or it would also be a good idea just to leave the game as it is and sell it through Xbox Live service.

# after Sony and Nintendo — Quixand 2007-06-20 16:06

said no due to the moral implications of the game it doesn't say a lot of good about Microsoft social conscience if they take the game...

especially now that they have this project of trying to sell to moms and putting away their image of being strictly hardcore and get into the mainstream market.

they would be stupid to grab it adter ninty and sony declined... their image would take a huge hit and they will risk losing the mainstream market because of the perception that people will have of the compny and the product... and for what??? to satisfy a couple of gamers who already avail of their products in the first place anyway.

# F,U.C.K. DAMN CENSORSHIP — Guest 2007-06-20 16:15

THIS ISN"T NAZI GERMANY or NORTH KOREA *****ING LET US PLAY THIS MOTHER*****ING GAME. GAY ASS NINTENDO AND YOUR STUPID JAP ANI*****INGME ideology

# Actually... — Guest 2007-06-20 16:16

Actually, I congrats Sony and Nintendo for their action on not marketing this game, maybe this will stop companies form making such mentally perverted games ever again.

# MS — Guest 2007-06-20 16:17

Microsoft would be in a good business position to keep the game. It would strengthen their library while at the same time appeasing a developer who was nearly 100% responsible for the success of a previous console of a competitor. Microsoft would aid R*/Take2 in recovering development costs.

After this, which console do you think will be seeing the best Rockstar/Take2 content? I'll give you two guesses but you will need just one.

# after Sony and Nintendo — Guest 2007-06-20 16:19

With games like BioShock where you can shoot little girls, you think that Microsoft care about selling it to moms?

Im not saying is good the banning from sony and nintendo. Tough seeing nintendo's point of view, you can understand it.

If the marketing people are smart enough, they'll take this banning as an advantage.

"The most controversial game of the decade", now only Xbox360....or something like that. Sounds stupid, but Mortal Kombat was very famous most because of the controversy. It doesn't matter if the game was good or not.

# nia.... — Guest 2007-06-20 16:45

Oh well, I've just read that Microsoft also bans AO games....so whatever....

Just wait for the director's cut version for the PC.

# The Nerve... — Guest 2007-06-20 17:01

The nerve of some people... Im a 29 year old Dad Who Love the Violence and in my opinion, it would be relaxing playing this game on the wii, Swinging the wiimote to kill some unreal people and i know my 7th year old baby boy would love it too... come on its just a game, we woud love to play and think that we are like the devil's rejects movie. If Sony and Nintendo banned the game so theres still hope on Microsoft. the 360 its amazing an it would be nice slashing other victims on a Online Multiplayer game.

# Hello - Adult HERE! — Dartan 2007-06-20 17:06

What's the Deal ... they give it an Adult Only rating and Sony and Nintendo say they wont allow AO games on there systems.

What does Sony think Us Adults aren't paying the $600 for these systems ...

We have the rating system to "stop" kids from buying games that have been flagged inapproprate. So why the "reason" for making a system that wont play AO games? Isn't that saying that the Rating System isn't doing it's Job ... and if that is the case then why are they still around??

# skies — Guest 2007-06-20 17:12

Someone needs to keep you off the streets

# nwojester — Guest 2007-06-20 17:29

I love superviolent games too (especially ones with big guns and lots of gibs, like ROTT :D), but the fact is man, you dissed Mario. That ain't cool. Sure Mario's games aren't the goriest or the most realistic, but they're a helluva lot of fun, and they're pretty much all classics too. Hook up yer ol' NES and you'll see what I mean.

# You are right... — Guest 2007-06-20 17:31

I ****ing hope this games gets leaked in the internet too...

# I ****ing agree... — Guest 2007-06-20 17:33

The UK started all this ****. Then everyone followed up.

# It ain't nintendo's fault... — Guest 2007-06-20 17:41

It is infact jacka$$ thompson's fault for going on his gay little anti-videogame crusade so that manhunt 2 would get an AO rating that it doesn't even deserve, and so that Nintendo AND Sony would try to escape his wrath by not allowing the sales of AO rated products on their systems. BTW, jacko should just f.u.c.k. off and get a f.u.c.k.i.n.g. job as a f.u.c.k.i.n.g. walmart greeter for the rest of his f.u.c.k.i.n.g. worthless life.

# calm down! — Guest 2007-06-20 17:49

I hate censorship too, h.e.l.l. censorship can suck my c.o.c.k., but It ain't the big N's fault, it's jacka$$ thompson's fault, man! He's the gay anti-videogame crusader we should be going after!

# heh — Guest 2007-06-20 17:50

to metalspector 2 comments down its cool that you think its alright the game should be stoped but i believe in the freedom of media might as well make us all go to the same website and watch the same tvs shows.

# Vote for bush idiot — Guest 2007-06-20 17:57

Once again governement decide what we can/cant buy.

Those guys are just making the game even more popular, like GTA:SA that got sold twice more when they talked about hot coffee and banning.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-20 18:03

Metalspector... you, are an idiot.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-20 18:24

...If this game does not come out I'm going to start killing people.

# Pussification — Guest 2007-06-20 18:50

FFS!! The console industry is a pussified shell of what it used to be..

Also, This is what Rockstar gets for trying to be clever releasing things on consoles first.. If Sony and Nintendo (tho Nintendo is no surprise, they always were idiots) have indeed put the breaks on this, maybe they'll start releasing on PC first in future.. the reason being there is more than one way to sell a game on PC.. A Steam model maybe.. Then issues like this wouldn't be an issue at all.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-20 19:36

I call bull ***** on that. I'm pretty sure it would take more than "turning your back" on a game to not have it on your console. It's been in development far too long to just get scrapped like that. Plus I'm pretty sure there would be some legal action needed to cover the wasted efforts of developers.

# PCs — Guest 2007-06-20 20:03

I think this is more the work of those stupid political correctness people.

It's a Bloody game, not real, VIRTUAL. grpahic scenes maybe, but can't possibly be anymore grousom then zombies(DEAD PEOPLE) and having to shoot their brains out.

# what's going on? — Guest 2007-06-20 20:15

First, I must say that there's too many *'s in the posts above. Please guys try to express yourselves like you were something more than an insult box.

Now, to the point. I really can't get what's the purpose of this comments by Sony and Nintendo. I don't think that they're going to dismiss this game just when it's almost over. They've known all along what was this all about and they've waited till now to reject it? No way, I can't beleive it. Are they just following this (stupid) trend with violent games? It's quite obvious that the rating systems are there for something so I can't see the point on all of this.

Please Nintendo (I don't own a PS2 so I really don't care about this release, hehe) take things more seriously and don't lose this ocasion to show that you believe in your clients criteria to buy a game to their kids or not.

# Thrill kill — Guest 2007-06-20 20:40

Why do I see a Thrill Kill here :) Its been a while since a game was NOT allowed to get released but since Manhunt 1 was already on the edge and caused controversity among VIdeo Game Hating Politics its no suprize to me.And we all know how Hypocritical those comities are.A little underground cash flow and the rating will change.They are now *****ing to raise the price...

# wtf — Guest 2007-06-20 20:49

u can buy adlut moveis but not adult games? suck my ***** u *****ing *****got, if i cannot buy it i will DDL it

# i agree with metalspector — Guest 2007-06-20 21:03

it's always kill kill kill. some retards are very macho when they are hidding at home, but why dont they just die/kill themselves and leave the world free of their pleague?

# No worries — Guest 2007-06-20 21:09

I think I know how this is going to end.

Rockstar will take some censorship on the game. But nothing that will affect gameplay. They just have to cut off some of the "offending" scenes, like the porn movie on the back mentioned in NGamer review and some gory details.

I personally think maybe some of that censorship won't be so bad to the game itself, as my stomach has grown some limits as I've grown older, and if the game is THAT realistic, I think I wouldn't enjoy it.

One thing is watching an alien blow up, some pixelated characters being turned to dust or some rubber zombies (like those gory movies that make us laugh) turn to a pile of blood; one other thing is to watch something that resembles perfectly like a human body being slaughtered, sawed or worse. Even worse is if you are making the movement of sawing that someone's limbs (like in the Wii version). I personally would have no pleasure in simulating such action.

As for the "censorship", they just have to "cut" enough to make the BBFC lift the ban and ESRB rate it as M. Then both Nintendo and Sony will be happy.

One thing is certain. This controversy certainly works as free advertising (maybe it was intended all the way?). Plus, if the game is as GOOD as NGamer says, it will sell a lot, and I mean a LOT. Those guys at Take Two / Rockstar are not dumb, no sir...

# shut up — Guest 2007-06-20 21:10

it's exactly ppl like you who they are trying to keep away from violent games. wussies who think they can do stuff when they're masturbating at home, and when they see that they are simply loosers they go mad and can do shtt.

knock off, this game is already off the shelf even before it hits.

# blame the britons — Guest 2007-06-20 21:12

glad they did :)

# cool — Guest 2007-06-20 21:16

hopefully someone will lock you away before that and you get your ass raped everyday by gross *****ers just like the one you want to be. good luck!

# wot? — Guest 2007-06-20 21:19

you people talk too much. shut up and go back to your mario kart before your mama gets your talking cheap on the internet. "get me a violent game or i'm gonna cry!!" bunch of wussies...

# Whats next — Guest 2007-06-20 21:26

Well the government is telling us what video games we can play now. So how long before they tell us how to live the rest of our lives. Its not sony's or nintendo's fault. They are under pressure from the government and people like Jacka$$ Thompson. I think this is all total BULLSH#T. This was the first real game I was looking forward to getting for the Wii. The whole AO rating is a bunch of sh#t. I just went and saw Hostel II with a scene of a women slicing another women up with a schythe and getting off in her blood. That movie was rated R ---- witch is an "M" rating am I right 17+. Makes no sense to me.

PS F#CK YOU JACK THOMPSON You worthless waste of space.

# .. — Guest 2007-06-20 22:15

i also agree with metal spector. i hope take two loses a load of money on this and I would like to laugh at them haertily as they do. they probably spent months and months , maybe even a year or two trying ton get this game as nasty as they could to get as much publicity as they could and now it seems to have back fired , lol.

# . — Guest 2007-06-20 22:19

you havnt even played the game and you have called it a masterpiece... shows what you know. nobody listen to this moron..

# .. — Guest 2007-06-20 22:27

this is just an educated guess but .. if they allow an AO rated game on there system it paves the way for all AO content on the system , i.e. porn . and no one wants porn associated with thier games system.

# How Bout AO Movies? — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-06-20 22:29

I bet Sony won't block people from watching porn on their PS3s. Whats the difference?

# .. — Guest 2007-06-20 22:42

games systems arent like the movies . if you look at movies , you cvan also buy hard core pron ......but you cant buy that on a wii or a ps2 . why ? because no game company wants to be associated with pron . so , if sony and nintendo allow this game , an AO game on thier system , they would have no moral or legal defence gaainst a porn company that wanted to release a pron game on thier system . makes sense doesnt it?

anyone notice the absence of porn games on all home console systems since forever?

anyone notice that ?

yeah , thats because they have all said NO to pron from the very start , and they would like to keep it that way. so to all you *****s saying ... ' lets us virtually kill people in gaming world or we will cry ' you have to understand that that its not just about manhunt , its about maintaining the integrity of the whole platform . its not about just one game ....... its about a future where all games will be judged on thier merit and not by how controvercial the game is . you guys need to play call of duty 2 on multiplayer rather than play this no skill game that rockstar keeps bringing out... its easy to kill the computer AI , but you cant kill me in COD 3 , you know why MOFO's... cos I got SKILLS... hahaha hahah.. . and so , thats why manhunt is being banned.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-21 00:53

I agree with Metalspector too. This game needs to be destroyed and no one should ever play it, period. There is nothing "good" to this game, and anyone who would want to play it obviously has some issues that they need to work out. Fantasizing about killing people like this is not right, and you should seriously seek some help now if you have any interest in this game. I hope this game goes down along with Take-Two... Bye Bye to both of you... Thank you Sony and Nintendo for sticking to your original words.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-21 00:55

I applaud Jack Thompson if he has anything to do with this game being banned/not allowed to be played on Sony/Nintendo...this game shouldn't be released, period.

# .... — Guest 2007-06-21 01:01

Sorry...but if you let your 7 year old child watch this game...you are a disgrace of a father, that obviously could care less about his child.

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# User Settings — Dartan 2007-06-21 01:30

Aren't there restriction settings built into the console that allow the End USer to set a password on the system for games over a certain rating??

How many checks and cross checks do we need??

# . — Guest 2007-06-21 01:30

Most stores probably aren't going to sell the game, so I think minors getting it isn't going to be a big problem.

Violent people play violent games. Games don't make people violent.

Quixand is just looking for a reason to bash MS AGAIN.

# @ Death — Guest 2007-06-21 01:33

*Sigh* You sir, are one of the results of too much gaming. Please let me quote Death.

"Im warning you if this game gets cancealed ile go buy a scope for my riffle and your gonna probly find yourself dead with in the next couple of mounths jack ass."

2 things.

1. Learn how to spell.

2. Get a life outside of gaming. I'm sure you will get much calmer. A game like this in your posession would create a new case of virginia tech.

P.S. If there is any grammar or spelling faults in my post (except for the death quotes) it's because i'm swedish and my english isn't very good.

# they are all ghey — Guest 2007-06-21 02:08

JT can suck it, sony can lick it and ninty can just shove it. "YES" to porn!

# Yes...ban it! — Guest 2007-06-21 02:09

Congratulation, Sony and Nintendo. This game is pure evil and murdering! Don't let them bring to the store. Go, Sony... Go Nintendo!

# KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY GAMES — Guest 2007-06-21 02:10

Even though I really have no desire to play/own this game, I'm really annoyed by this. It just goes to show that the man is in control and has no faith in the majorities decision making abilities (as if it wasn't already abundantly apparent). Okay, I'm going to go make a sandwich and saw through my bread like a jugular and drink some V8.

# read title — Guest 2007-06-21 02:38

Wow...there's a lot of drama here

anyways, I'm glad Ninty and Sony dont allow AO content on their consoles.....if they did, there'd prbly be more and more AO's and...well...motion sensing is prbly going to be very useful for some of the Ao's I'm thinking about

Anyways, Manhunt 2 is prbly a really good game....92! from Ngame.....that's a good rating, really

# ... — Guest 2007-06-21 03:03

It's amazing how people like you take my comment seriously, I think You're the one who should stop playing these video games, idiot. Lol.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-21 03:08

Many are saying "Omg I wouldn't play such a game, I'm glad they're banning it!" ...Why. So you won't play it, lol, okay? Nobody cares buddy. Leave the game how it was made, and leave it how it should be. Do you honestly think RockStar is like, "Oh no, some people MAY find this offensive." on your behalf? Obviously not which is why they made the game. As for it being a true murder simulator, Oh Come ON, it's a damn video game. So that means GTA is a true car-jacking, whore *****ing, gang shooting, police escaping simulator. It's all a damn game. To be honest, I think you guys who are glad this game is being banned, are just a bunch of pussies. If you can't handle a grusome game, don't come in here waving your black flags because it's something you don't want to see.

# way — Guest 2007-06-21 03:18

i cant believe this ive waited so long and now they are dropping it because of jack thompson. ***** this, i emailed that *****sucker and told him what i thought. here feel free to do so yourself.

jackpeace@comca st.net

ya this is his personal email addy

***** you JT

# I don't know about you... — Guest 2007-06-21 03:33

but I am gonna stock these mofo up and resell them to school children on craiglist ;)

# Not another Thrill Kill! — Guest 2007-06-21 04:18

Please don't let this game go the way of Thrill Kill (wiki it if you don't know.) I was really looking forward to playing this on my PSP. I loved the first game and I was really looking forward to some portable skull cracking... crap, now I want a portable Condemned too...

# Re: — Guest 2007-06-21 04:44

@Death-- People like you don't need games like this. It's a good thing that we don't let perverse games like this reach a wide audience. Instead of playing video games and whining, take a class on spelling and grammar.

@Metalspector-- I completely agree with you.

@Jin-- You make a terrible argument and come off as an idiot yourself.

# censorship is totally rad!!! — Guest 2007-06-21 05:36

yeah it's really cool this game got cancelled I was thinking about organizing a bookburning next week if anybodys interested. I'm really concerned with the type of media that other people watch in their own homes, I think we should install cameras in peoples houses just in case the are watching or playing something I feel uncomfortable about. Perhaps we could open up some concentration camps to put races and nationalities of people in that I object to, and lets not forget the queers, I think we'd all be much happier without them f@gging up the place.

# ..... — Guest 2007-06-21 06:06

SINJINN THIS ISNT ABOUT PRON U STUPID IDIOT. theres only a scene in the background which isnt wat the game is entirely being banned/given an AO rating for. violence has been ion almost every popular game today. so just because you can make the motion of it on wii doesn't make a friggin difference. it wont make people murderers or train them in any way. i mean ur not gonna learn how to kill someone with barbed wire, cuz u dont have to learn. all u do is put it around the persons neck. violence has been around in videogames since forever.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-21 08:58

@Myself, I didn't make an argument? You're just mad because I disagree with your boyfriend. Nice try, I guess.

# bloody English ratings — Guest 2007-06-21 09:13

We have a useless government....*****s that they are

# Perfect Strategy — Guest 2007-06-21 09:14

And that ladies and gentleman, is a lesson in perfect marketing. How many people were actually planning on buying the game before the BBFC banned it?

Anyway, judging by the some of the comments posted here, i don't think many of you'll be old enough or mentally stable to buy it.

# If this ruined your life... — Guest 2007-06-21 15:39

its pretty sad to begin with.

# Well, now... — Guest 2007-06-21 16:58

I love games. And violence. Yay for both.

But, *****, seriously. This is just *****ing ridiculous.

Stuff like this is garbage, and it shouldn't be published

nor developed at all. It's because of stupid ***** like this

games are given a bad name at all. GTA pushes the boundaries far enough. It's so damn stupid. If violence is the only thing you find to be enjoyable, then damn, I feel sorry for you, because I'm sure that's some sort of medical condition. I hate Jackhole Thompson just as much as any gamer. But, really... Don't the rest of you see that this is just a little too far?

# Huge Difference, moron. — Guest 2007-06-21 17:14

Okay, so not to insult you really, but, when a game comes out, it is licensed by the company who owns the game system which the said game is being published on. DVDs are different. They're just published by whoever the hell will. It makes no difference, because DVDs will play on any DVD player. It's not licensed to the DVD player that it will play on. So, in short, Sony's name isn't attached to the porn. It merely plays the porn. Oh wait... The PS3 doesn't play DVDs... does it? I'm not a fan, so, I tend to not care. I apologize for not being more up to date. So... BluRay porn? Don't see that happening really... BluRay is too expensive... Anyway, that's a different topic completely.

# meh — Guest 2007-06-21 17:21

they should just release a watered down version for the consoles... and if ppl really want the unedited version they should just buy it for the pc...

# Getting worse — Guest 2007-06-21 18:44

Its true as adults we should be able to play whatever videogames we want without the us government trying to decide for us i guess people these days like to have their rights violated since it seems more and more people these days are to stupid to care,land of the free my ass,and also wheres the democracy,adult s deciding what adults should do and not do,this countrys itching towards communism... no seriously.

# helll noo — Guest 2007-06-21 18:51

Im grown,push the boundaries who cares this is modern day babylon we're living in,the boundaries are gone gay marriage,satani c music,child rape,murder,arm ed robbery,holocau st,***** i can go on and on its just a *****ing game dont act like a ridiculous suburbanite whios been hidden the real world

# ... — Guest 2007-06-22 05:07

Maybe they decided to use it as a vessel to get a point across. Something like "make a game like this and you lose."

# My life, my choice right? — Guest 2007-06-25 03:05

Wrong.

For 3 decades people have been *****ing me around.

Soon and for the rest for my long, long life you will all KNOW different.

# @ Metalspector and his ilk — Guest 2007-06-28 19:55

You folks are disgusting, and here's why.

You censor.

You cannot deny or disagree with it. Once something is sensored, a third party will continue to sensor, and do so as they please. You can disagee with the game, the company, the genre, format, or concept all you like, but once you decide that you (or anyone else for that matter) is capable of deciding what should and shouldn't be shown to other people, you become either wolf or sheep.

I'm not going to argue what violent programming of any sort does to encourage people, because that is an invitation to a squawking match. But you have no right to decide what may or may not be acceptable for me to view, or play.

You have no right. Burn copies of Huck Finn all you want, censorship is an evil to progression, and an affront to personal freedom, choice and thought.

# ...did i read that right? — Guest 2007-06-29 10:17

"Currently it's SCE's policy not to allow the playback of AO rated content on our systems."

wtf??? what the hell is all this coming too!? an AO rating MEANS adults only! there wouldn't be a problem if parents bought games for their kids that WERE rated for adults because they don't know enough about games on the whole. i think that the lazy-ass parents are being listened to about this crap by the big companies like sony and nintendo when they instead should just be telling them to f*ck off. it's become the problem of the serious gamers out there because of other people's crap. screw them. screw sony. screw nintendo. i'm sick of this crap.

# good parenting... — Guest 2007-07-02 12:20

personally i think its best to show kids the reality of the world, and not brainwash them into believing that when that one night that they walk alone through a alley along comes, barneys gonna come out and hug them, when really a killer is gonna have that spot. and its funny how all these people who're against violent videogames are gonna end up restricting their kids from so much.. but instead of lettin their kids do this and that the kids will then have to "sneak" outside and "try" all these things they dont know about (AKA drugs and whatnot). im not sayin let ur kids go out late and do drugs, im just sayin, be less strict and explain these things so that the temptation wouldnt be as BIG. and all the people opposing the release of this game, grow up, noones forcing you to play it, theyre only forcing us NOT to play it. so this is isnt your fight.

# VIDEOGAMES AND MOVIES — Guest 2007-07-02 12:41

people are always trying to say a videogame is worse than a movie, so u can get away with more on movies. but videogames are pixelated, and movies star real people. hmmm, i wonder which one looks realer. and since this videogame isnt about goin around f_ckin peoples faces it should be considered mature, and not adults only, which would be better suited to hardcore porn titles. dont u think?

# . — Guest 2007-07-02 14:02

if they cancel it i hope the realease it on 360......

# jacks big mouth — Guest 2007-07-03 06:22

death i love you, you kick ass im with u man.some 1 needs to shut this cocck sukkkers mouth.

# I HATE NINTENDO AND SONY FOR THIS — Guest 2007-07-03 06:34

nWojester i agree with you,it is assanine for gaming companys to market to adults to get them to buy there products and then scroow us over by releasing nothing for thee age demigraphic, they mita as well tryed to spit on me and then try to slap me in the face, they are lucky they dont live by me because i swear to god ide *****k them up for ripping me off like this.I basicly purcsased a very expencive paper weight.

# hyh6 — Guest 2007-07-03 11:57

i think they should be able to sell manhunt 2 even if its an ao then young people shuldent be able to buy if they are not old enought u know what i mean.

# hahahahahaha u loser! — Guest 2007-07-15 01:21

u sound like an absolute dicck end. i quote you, "This type of anger is the core of almost all violence" haha. nobody cares about computer games as much as you. u r a sad sad boy. u need to get out a bit more

# bollocks!!!!!!! — Guest 2007-07-15 08:50

lmao u people give me jokes its a *****ing game its not real

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