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Manhunt 2 banned in UK and Ireland
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Gutted, I loved the first one and was looking forward to this. I don't have a modden PS2 so I can't import it either :/
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21-06-2007, 10:04
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I'm surprised they're not appealing against it.
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21-06-2007, 11:05
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I'm puzzled by this banning tbh. We all have a choice of what we watch and play. Where do you draw the line between what is and what is not acceptable.. The media is being used as a scapegoat for violent acts of crime rather than facing up to the fact that it's a problem with society.. I can think of many films like Kill Bill and last nights Layer Cake that are very violent but no one buts an eyelid.
The way I feel, is that to be a cold blooded murderer, it’s something you’ve got to have inside you already. It’s something that’s part of you, like a pit-bull. The victims, media and politicians need a scapegoat and the games industry is just that. Just the same way that during the 70s football was blamed for violence at matches but it was society that was the problem, not football. People seem to forget that and burry their heads in the sands rather than accept that there are problems in society. Mans instinct and nature is a violent and has been since the stone age. It’s just unfortunate that some can’t control the level of violence they harness
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21-06-2007, 11:07
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I was thinking about this last night, it was banned because of the 'casual sadism' in it. I was thinking about it because I'd just seen the trailer for Hostel 2 and Paradise Lost. How come they get away with it yet a game doesn't? Paradise Lost seems to have some really nasty bit where organs are removed from someone while they're still alive and their boyfriend's watching them suffer. How sick can you get?? And yet it gets an 18 and Manhunt 2 which is a game and doesn't feature real people acting gets banned. Silly.
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21-06-2007, 11:09
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Hasn't a Law & Order game been banned too?
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21-06-2007, 11:10
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I guess, playing devils advocate, the distinction is interaction - the player performs these acts where in films they are just witness to them.
I personally dont buy that and support the 'where do you draw the line argument'. Should we ban the writing of horrific books/stories/films, because they're too dangerous to be conceived? [edit]Law and Order 2 was taken off the shelves because it contained a CCTV still of James Bulgers abduction, and was taken down by the publisher, it wasn't forced.
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21-06-2007, 12:59
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You all talk like you can't get it now, remember, your console doesn't just play UK games, it plays PAL. Some PAL countries will definitely get it such as Scandinavia, Finland etc... So I'd take a gamble at being able to get it from there. Of course there will be cost now  .
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. |
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From a non - gamer perspective I don't have a problem with violent games at all but I do have a problem with the parents who buy games for their kids regardless of the certs !
 I have seen 6 year olds playing GTA Vice City on a PSP before now and it makes my blood boil !I stick rigidly to certs, something I think which is been ingrained in me by my parents, they used to rent out videos.
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