Britain bans sales of “Manhunt 2″ video game

Britain hasn’t banned a game since 1997, but now the country’s ratings board decided to ban sales of “Manhunt 2″, a game developed by the “Grand Theft Auto” makers Rockstar Games. The game’s main character is mental institution patient who wants to escape and kills everything that comes across his way out. As said, this is the first game Birtain has banned since not allowing sales of “Carmageddon” in 1997 (Carmageddon is a game in which players have to drive vehicles over pedestrians). David Cooke from the ratings board said they decided to ban the game, because it was “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”. Rockstar spokesman Rodney Walked, on the other hand, said they wanted to create a game that is more like a horror game similar to the Saw-like gory movies that have been released lately. He continued saying the board’s decision was censorship, because they had taken away the right of the public to decide for itself.




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