Comments on: “Manhunt 2:” Most Violent Game Yet?

Critics Say New Video Game Is Too Realistic; Players Must Torture, Kill

[sverre5-2009]

Ironically, the kind of publicity articles like this are what the game''s publisher, Rockstar benefit from. They have historically used media hype and controversy to sell games. [They''ve also created the Grand Theft Auto Series] If the aim of these articles is to lower the game''s sales and children''s desire to play them, then it is probably doing the exact opposite. Sadly, the writers of this article, like many non-gamers are uninformed. Video games have now become a mainstream form of entertainment, much different from ten or twenty years ago. Thus, like books and film, there is a broad age range that publishers can appeal to. By understanding more about the facts of the ESRB rating system, and doing research on the games themselves, parents can more accurately control what they want their children to play. I myself would never play this game, or allow my children to. But I am also against censorship. If people want to play Manhunt, so be it.

[grammawhamma]

God...you gamers must really be addicted to get a wedgie over this. I see the veins sticking out on your forehead. Just explain to me why you need this violence in your game...adrenalin rush or what? I really want to know why the violence? Please calm down if you can and explain.

[daaborion]

Continued 2:
You know what CBS? Games are becoming, if not already have, become just like movies. Get over it and move on! You want REAL news? Put posts like this on TV and talk about how much of an *** you just made yourself on television, you poor excuse for journalism.

"Next up on CBS, how our lead reporter slept with a man!... it''s not really true, in fact it''s actually her husband.. but let''s report it as something horrible just to get ratings, yea!"......that''s about the level of *** you have just shown on your program. This is why I watch Daily Show. I think it''s about time its not us, but YOUR NETWORK that gets some morals you hypocritical idiots.

[daaborion]

Continued:
You know what, you should stop complaining when you have also regulated what we can watch on TV and in movies. A kid can''t even buy this game YET YOU REFUSE TO MENTION IN YOUR ARTICLE THAT YOUR TV SHOWS SAY WORLDS LIKE *** ON FAMILY PROGRAMS!!!!! So, it''s ok to have little Jonny turn on the tube and hear about gay people all the time and hear words like ***.. but a game in which a kid that can''t even buy this game, why... becuase it''s meant for ADULTS, gets SLANDERED all the time on media because it''s soooo baaaad for him. IT''s NOT MADE FOR HIM!

You want a good moraled company like Nintendo to have a bad reputation, YOU''RE giving it to them, not us gamers. Wby can''t we have something to play that is just like a movie... so what I''m making a motion instead of a button. Let me tell you, THIS GAME IS A LOT LESS SCARIER THAN SAW III. I HATE horror films, it''s too disgusting... they have gone out of hand. But no, let''s divert your "news" away from you inappropriate tv programs and movies, just to complain about something you know nothing about.

[daaborion]

Wow CBS, you really ARE the new Fox aren''t you?

I really hope you read these comments because the gaming world is literally SICK and TIRED of this negativety all the time. You smile when you see in movies people get tortured, raped, mangled all the time. Why do you let it go? Oh, because it''s rated R. Well oh educated ones... this one is rated M. What in the world could M mean. OHHHHH thats MATURE.. which is the gaming equality for R. Seriously... have you ever played a system every week.. like a true gamer does? No. Then how in the world do you come off as being an expert at what you''re talking about.

You say that Nintendo might be getting a "non-kiddie" reputation now. Um, what do you get your facts from 13 year old posting on forums??? Nintendo has had since the gamecube Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, Scarface, Godfather. Oh wait, you cant say bad things about the last two... theyre based off MOVIES. Let me tell you something. You KILL PEOPLE IN THOSE GAMES JUST LIKE THE MOVIES. How is that right but this is wrong. Here''s another fun fact of the day. The first game was a LOT worse than this! Get it through your thick skulls that even games like Mario or Sonic are played mostly by gamers over the age of 25. I think us 25+ year olds have the intelligence to pick up the appropriate game for ourselves, just like we do for movies. Seriously, what is your problem

[greybeardvet]

I hate these *** video games. They are just as offensive as child pornography. I''m a long time member of ACLU and a firm believer in freedom of speech but this *** is just too unwholesome. Shame on the producers and shame on the losers that buy it.

[daaborion]

Wow CBS, you really ARE the new Fox aren''t you?

I really hope you read these comments because the gaming world is literally SICK and TIRED of this negativety all the time. You smile when you see in movies people get tortured, raped, mangled all the time. Why do you let it go? Oh, because it''s rated R. Well oh educated ones... this one is rated M. What in the world could M mean. OHHHHH thats MATURE.. which is the gaming equality for R. Seriously... have you ever played a system every week.. like a true gamer does? No. Then how in the world do you come off as being an expert at what you''re talking about.

You say that Nintendo might be getting a "non-kiddie" reputation now. Um, what do you get your facts from 13 year old posting on forums??? Nintendo has had since the gamecube Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, Scarface, Godfather. Oh wait, you cant say bad things about the last two... theyre based off MOVIES. Let me tell you something. You KILL PEOPLE IN THOSE GAMES JUST LIKE THE MOVIES. How is that right but this is wrong. Here''s another fun fact of the day. The first game was a LOT worse than this! Get it through your thick skulls that even games like Mario or Sonic are played mostly by gamers over the age of 25. I think us 25+ year olds have the intelligence to pick up the appropriate game for ourselves, just like we do for movies. Seriously, what is your problem

[daaborion]

Wow CBS, you really ARE the new Fox aren''t you?

I really hope you read these comments because the gaming world is literally SICK and TIRED of this negativety all the time. You smile when you see in movies people get tortured, raped, mangled all the time. Why do you let it go? Oh, because it''s rated R. Well oh educated ones... this one is rated M. What in the world could M mean. OHHHHH thats MATURE.. which is the gaming equality for R. Seriously... have you ever played a system every week.. like a true gamer does? No. Then how in the world do you come off as being an expert at what you''re talking about.

You say that Nintendo might be getting a "non-kiddie" reputation now. Um, what do you get your facts from 13 year old posting on forums??? Nintendo has had since the gamecube Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, Scarface, Godfather. Oh wait, you cant say bad things about the last two... theyre based off MOVIES. Let me tell you something. You KILL PEOPLE IN THOSE GAMES JUST LIKE THE MOVIES. How is that right but this is wrong. Here''s another fun fact of the day. The first game was a LOT worse than this! Get it through your thick skulls that even games like Mario or Sonic are played mostly by gamers over the age of 25. I think us 25+ year olds have the intelligence to pick up the appropriate game for ourselves, just like we do for movies. Seriously, what is your problem

[brianbwb-2009]

Same was said about "Doom" when it was out. I still have custom wads, and play it. I even have one where the characters are all from "Looney Tunes". It only became one of the most popular games in history, and the forerunner of "Manhunt2"

"Perverse humor" has a merit in helping us deal with extreme forms of stress and fear. These games are nothing more than "gross out humor", harmless.

Better worry about Bush, who plays such games with real human lives.

[Wookiee-1138]

Myabe when people get it through their heads that "game" =/= "for kids" we won''t have to deal with such saltatrix tonsa.