Manhunt Drama Continues

Back in June, the ELSPA put a ban on Manhunt 2 as the game was to violent for release. Today, the soap continues.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has rejected a revised version of the video game Manhunt 2. This follows the rejection of the original version of the game in June. The distributor had set in motion an appeal to the Video Appeals Committee against that decision, and this was suspended while the revised version was considered for classification.

David Cooke, Director of the BBFC, said: "We recognise that the distributor has made changes to the game, but we do not consider that these go far enough to address our concerns about the original version. The impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone, or the essential nature of the gameplay, is clearly insufficient. There has been a reduction in the visual detail in some of the execution kills, but in others they retain their original visceral and casually sadistic nature."

Cooke continues: "We did make suggestions for further changes to the game, but the distributor has chosen not to make them, and as a result we have rejected the game on both platforms. The decision on whether or not an appeal goes ahead lies with the distributor."

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  Anyone actually surprised by this? I think we all saw it coming.

  ganepark32, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  I actually expected RockStar would had changed the game enough to meet up to the ELSPA / BBFC's demands.

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  No big deal to me, although I did think it would have made it through this time.

  Hells Zargon, 30-11--0001 at 00:00