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It's Official: Manhunt 2 Rated Adults Only by ESRB
gamepolitics.com — The ESRB secretly assigned an Adults Only rating to Manhunt 2, officials from Take Two have now revealed.
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- romsel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1From the ESRB website:
“ADULTS ONLY
Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.”
has it intense violence... check!
do I think it should only be available to persons 18 and older... yes! - neiltc13, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3The funniest part about this is that it is still legal for a minor to buy it. When will you Americans wake up and sort out your rating system?
It should be ILLEGAL for a minor to buy this game and any other rated AO or M like it is in many other countries around the world.- washingtonydc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3we have a little thing called the First Amendment that we hold very dear. We'll let our parents do the parenting and have our government stay out of our speech, expression, and art.
there is a fundamental difference in the way the USA and Europe approach freedom of speech. For example, many European countries ban racial slurs or denying the holocaust. Dreadful things to be sure, but what's worse than those ideas are banning those ideas.
Manhunt looks like a mediocre game. But I may pick it up just to help its sales numbers--to help show than an AO game need not fail. I don't want developers to be chilled by the ESRB, the UK ratings board, or anything else. - elsimer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1you might keep in mind that neither the ESRB nor the MPAA nor the RIAA are government entities, unlike most European censors. The idea that an organization could force an idea to be illegal is repugnant outside of Orwellian societies. If a parent wants their kid to see an NC-17 movie, that's legal (unless the theater has signed some kind of agreement/contract with the MPAA and even then it becomes more of a civil matter instead of criminal).
That being said, I applaud the ESRB for their decision - assuming the game warrants an AO (which based on early reviews it seems to) - agrabob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It should be illegal for a minor to buy violent games(rated M or AO)?
Ok, so lets apply that to ALL media. Movies are obvious, but what about books? Should we make it a felony for a kid to buy a Steven King novel? What about paintings? Should viewing an abstract drawing of a naked human form be illegal for minors?
You see how rediculous that is? - seanthebond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Should we make it a felony for a kid to buy a Steven King novel?"
People read still?! - santa7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Triumph of the Swill!
- washingtonydc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3we have a little thing called the First Amendment that we hold very dear. We'll let our parents do the parenting and have our government stay out of our speech, expression, and art.
- RazorElite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm still wondering wtf changes in 1 year (from 17 to 18) that an AO rating is even worthwhile.
- seanthebond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Magically, on a human's 18th birthday, they magically gain a vast amount of majority that will allow them to play certain games without having the need to kill somebody afterwards.
The same goes for alcohol.
- seanthebond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Magically, on a human's 18th birthday, they magically gain a vast amount of majority that will allow them to play certain games without having the need to kill somebody afterwards.
- void42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0 It's not so much that I have any problem at all with the AO rating (although why there is only a difference of one year between the two is beyond me), but that it will now likely be much harder for me to find a copy of the game since the AO rating is too often connected with porn games for normal retailers to have the guts to carry.
It's funny that places like Wal-Mart will not carry this game because of the AO rating. but they do carry the unrated (read as 'would have received an NC-17 or X rating') versions of the Saw movies. Maybe Rockstar should do a toned down M rated version, and then release an "UNRATED" version, it does seem to work well with DVDs.
I hope the game lives up to the hype, because if it is really good enough to warrant all the crap it is getting, then I definitely want to get it.- HOTM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Just buy it online...
- eevee7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Manhunt is banned in UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/6767623.stm
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