"Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games, modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board's published Guidelines. In the case of Manhunt 2 this has not been possible. Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing. There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.
Although the difference should not be exaggerated the fact of the game's unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying and the sheer lack of alternative pleasures on offer to the gamer, together with the different overall narrative context, contribute towards differentiating this submission from the original Manhunt game. That work was classified '18' in 2003, before the BBFC's recent games research had been undertaken, but was already at the very top end of what the Board judged to be acceptable at that category.
Against this background, the Board's carefully considered view is that to issue a certificate to Manhunt 2, on either platform, would involve a range of unjustifiable harm risks, to both adults and minors, within the terms of the Video Recordings Act, and accordingly that its availability, even if statutorily confined to adults, would be unacceptable to the public.
Under the terms of the Video Recordings Act distributors have the right to appeal the Board's decision."
c0r Version: The British Board of Film Classification has decided the video game "Manhunt 2" (in which you play an insane scientist attempting to recover his memory by brutally killing dozens of people in graphic fashion not unlike modern horror films) is unable to be rated as it is an "unjustifiable harm risk," and therefore illegal to sell in the UK.
Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Maximum Security twilight home for cats
Oh come on, you know it's not guns, sharp objects, house bricks, beer, motor vehicles, war, insanity and social discontent which leads to people killing other people, it's those damn kids that are playing computer games that kill people.
Jun-19-2007 14:15
RJT
last minute disco
Registered: Oct 2004
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Lilith
Oh come on, you know it's not guns, insanity and social discontent which leads to people killing other people, it's those damn kids that are playing computer games that kill people.
Dang, you're right. Good on the BBFC then. Job well done boys!.
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: 1000 Miles too far North
Yeah it is kind of amusing how if there is violence in a video game people go apeshit but they don't think twice about movies that involve torture and murder and glorify violence.
Jun-19-2007 14:34
Slylee
love lockdown
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood, FL
aren't video games like that linked to the desensitising of humans?
i mean yea, let a "normal" kid or person play that game...they'll be fine.
let some little warped child who is abused every day play it. probably have a different outcome. colombine part 2 or some shit.
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Originally posted by notelfreak
man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone
Jun-19-2007 14:37
DJ_Eternal
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Warrington, England
To emulate what you interact with in a video game in real life says more about the person than it does about the game.
It should be given an 18, and if kids get their hands on the game via their parents, then the parents are to blame, not the company that publishes the game.
Jun-19-2007 14:41
gehzumteufel
In your ass
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: so cal
quote:
Originally posted by Slylee
aren't video games like that linked to the desensitising of humans?
i mean yea, let a "normal" kid or person play that game...they'll be fine.
let some little warped child who is abused every day play it. probably have a different outcome. colombine part 2 or some shit.
while your correct in your assumption society seems to not seperate the fact that the ones that are doing this were deranged already. in some fashion or another. they fail to realize the mitigating factors such as depression that would immensely change the outcome of the research. they are just looking for something to blame really. this also falls on the parents as they arent properly teaching their kids the difference between fiction and reality. something i have noticed a lot more as i have grown older. kids think war is like a video game. then they get over there and realize that it isnt.
Jun-19-2007 14:49
Slylee
love lockdown
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood, FL
yea it's definitely all in the parenting, i'm not disagreeing with that. but i can also understand the annoyance in some parents too who are just trying to raise a healthy, normal kid and these fuckin video games keep coming out that aren't the "18" law or whatever.
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Originally posted by notelfreak
man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone
Jun-19-2007 14:54
Ian
Not dead yet.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: UK
this comes a week after the church of england vowed to sue sony unless they took all copies of a certain game (i forget which one) off shelves worldwide because it featured a big church in manchester in detail and manchester has been linked to a lot of gun crime too.
the uk in general has just gone PC mad.
Jun-19-2007 14:56
XaNaX
I <3 global warming
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: 1000 Miles too far North
quote:
Originally posted by Slylee
yea it's definitely all in the parenting, i'm not disagreeing with that. but i can also understand the annoyance in some parents too who are just trying to raise a healthy, normal kid and these fuckin video games keep coming out that aren't the "18" law or whatever.
I can totally see your point there. They put this game out rated 18+ but sure enough every 13 year old boy in the fucking world wants it because its the latest cool game that all his friends have.
So you either are the dickhead parent who won't let them have the game or you cave and set your kid up with a game where you get points for murdering people. And the games now are a little different cuz the shit is very detailed with quality lifelike graphics vs. when I was a kid and you could barely recognize that the thing on the screen was supposed to be a person.
