Manhunt 2 has been refused a certificate by the BBFC. Rockstar get a chance at an appeal.
To be honest, is anyone really surprised by this? I’ve been expecting it since Rockstar revealed that they’d removed the coercion aspect from the game – basically, removing all the context – and it seems the BBFC feel the same way.
[David Cooke, the BBFC’s director, said that] “the game’s unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying and the sheer lack of alternative pleasures on offer to the gamer, together with the different overall narrative context, contribute towards differentiating this submission from the original Manhunt game.”
Have Rockstar finally gone too far? Well, put it this way, if Jack Thompson hadn’t been sued into oblivion he’d be crowing about this right now as proof that he was right. Shame really.
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