Before “Manhunt 2” hits shelves on Halloween, Common Sense wants to make sure that parents know this game is NOT okay for kids.” And data from the Federal Trade Commission shows that underage kids can purchase M-rated games more than four out of ten times. “Research suggests that nearly 60 percent of kids play M-rated games on a regular basis. GamerDad has no problem joining CSM in saying this because it’s so freaking obvious: Parents! Be careful! Don’t buy this for your kids! Look at that cover! Look at that rating! See? It’s not for kids! (Disclosure, I work for their video game division as a reviewer.) CSM quickly opted to use Manhunt 2 as a press opportunity and they’ve planned a press conference to “help” parents.Īnyway, CSM has urged a nationwide ban on the game on the part of parents. Recently a non-profit called CommonSense. This will continue to be true so long as video games remain the culture war’s front line and for as long as the absurd notion that these games “teach” killing because they’re interactive goes away.
MANHUNT 2 A O MOVIE
So it’s clear that TV and movie ratings are far more lenient than the ESRB. So, in disbelief I hit the GUIDE button and noticed it was rated TV-14. Yeah, it featured that whole “gang of zombies surrounds guard and pull pig intestines out of his guts. We believe kids should NOT be exposed to Manhunt 2, but we understand that films like Saw, Hostel, and Cabin Fever are far more violent and extreme and just two days ago I caught part of a Sci-Fi channel movie about zombies in a prison. AO is a censorship or ban rating and GamerDad is against all forms of censorship. No retailer will stock an AO title and no platform will allow it (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo strongly police the games released for their systems as is their right). See, the problem with the AO rating, and why it’s unacceptable, is that it’s the kiss of death. But we can’t support the AO rating because it’s not a real rating at all. It deserves it when compared to other M-rated games, and, after all, we will more than likely be giving it our own ADULT Age Seal. GamerDad’s official take on the controversy is that, in a perfect world, Manhunt 2 would get an AO rating. The game, fittingly, comes out in stores on October 31st. Several countries have banned the game outright, despite the changes, with the highest profile being the British Board of Film Classification, which kept the ban despite the changes. The game got an AO -Adults Only rating from the ESRB a few months ago and they did something, cut some content, to make that an M-Mature.
MANHUNT 2 A O SERIAL
The plot casts the player as a serial killer trapped in a nightmare where it’s kill or be killed with other serial killers and crazies. Manhunt 2 is a sequel to one of the most vile and violent games ever made. The game is called Manhunt 2 and if you haven’t been following the controversy, here it is in a nutshell.
Scary stuff, huh? I mean, you can tell just looking at it (the M-rating is another clue and the descriptors speak of extreme violence, gore, “strong sexual content” and “use of drugs”) that this is a horror game made for adults.
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