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Is Manhunt 2 Worse on the Wii? Florida Attorney General Investigating

gamepolitics.com — Influenced by Jack Thompson's complaints, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is looking into the upcoming release of Manhunt 2 on the Wii.

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Pac56, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Parent's need to learn that M is for "Mature" not for "MoMMy's little Man"... Leave the game developers alone and do something about the irresponsible parents that are buying these games for their kids. Games systems, DVD's, or Television; these are NOT babysitters. I know it isn't easy for every parent to spend extra time with their children, but that is no excuse for buying your 10 year old Grand Theft Auto just so he'll stop throwing a tantrum in the game store. He'll eventually stop holding his breath, and if he doesn't, it must be darwinism in action ^_^
- aschocobo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1heh. the best anti-kiddie, free publicity the wii is going to see in the next few weeks. i don't get it. why do these people always give these things attention? GTA was moderately popular with gamers when it was first released, but the game (and consequently most of the slipshod clones that came after it) didn't get popular with the mainstream audience until the media went OMGWTF!! ***** insane over its content. same thing happened with Mortal Kombat back in the day. the only thing this is gonna do is get people to want to buy this game even more.
  
  p.s.: @pac: you can't die from holding your breath. the worse you can do is pass out, after which your heart muscles start you breathing on their own. :p
Uberogre, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I'm glad the BBFC blocked it.
I can't believe I just said that - having resisted most forms of censorship and control - particularly in the video gaming genre, but in this case I feel it is justified.
Throughout the history of video gaming there has always been attempts to link acts of violence and unacceptable social behaviour to it, but when you look at what is happening here it is almost presenting a new precedent.

Firstly, the plot subject matter. Murder and sadistic violence isn't a by product of the game, it [I]is[/I] the game. Couple this with the ability to generate more and more realistic graphic and atmospheric user interaction and it doesn't sound like 'entertainment' to me...

Secondly, the targeted platforms for this game. Nobody is going to tell me that no-one except over 18's are going to be playing this. My particular concern is players on the Wii platform. As you are aware, the controls of the wii enable players to wield 'virtual weapons' via the joypads - allowing players a much more hands on approach to stabbing, dismembering, torturing, etc than usual. Now picture that for a moment. A 10 - 14 year old boy leaping around the living room stabbing and slashing with joy while a graphic image writhes on the TV screen - tell me that isn't sick. And pleeze don't tell me that people are so naive as to believe younger kids play this 'cos their parents let them - kids will always get access to this kinda stuff.

I've played just about every type of video game there is and have been a big first person shooter fan for years. We've had to suffer the rantings of people who said it would turn us into psycho's and serial killers - the last thing we need is video game companies making a fast buck by pushing mindless dross like this as 'entertainment'. Video game producers have long been able to flout the censorship that inhibits other creative genres... but they won't for much longer if they don't stop this kind of crap.
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