The most significant cut Rockstar made in the formerly Adults-Only game that was overlooked is the scoring system.
It’s the system that tallied a better number for me if I had behaved more brutally, displaying the figures on a screen that appeared between each level of the game.
It’s a system that was in the first M-rated “Manhunt” but is absent from the M-rated version of the sequel.
Major U.S. retailer Target has pulled Manhunt 2 from its shelves, and the title no longer appears in search results at the retailer's online store. The move comes in the wake of a broadly-circulated, but complex hack that un-blurred some of the controversial kill scenes in the PSP version of the game.
Despite the ESRB's decision to change Manhunt 2's initial rating from AO to M, Target stores apparently will not be selling the game in North America. A representative from Target's corporate office confirmed that the company made a decision to no longer sell Manhunt 2.
@Jesse2050, I was also long at 77 and later on I bought higher up and ended up with an avg of 80 long. The game looked a lot more promising than it turned out, I had only followed screenshots and occasional glances at previews though. The setting looked to have been a major improvement over the original game's setting, and I thought it was going to have a decent story. Oh well.
A pretty standard "politician hops on video game violence as an issue" article. The interesting thing, I thought, was the assertion that 1/6th of Americans suffer from "serious mental illness". If I know 5 sane people, does that mean I'm the crazy one?
"Despite the presence of a hack that can uncensor Manhunt 2, ESRB's Patricia Vance fully backs Rockstar, noting that they disclosed all pertinent content and complied with ESRB guidelines."
@zukaus, Sure they would, why didn't Rockstar think of that?
/sarcasm
Seriously though, I think Rockstar is trying to do the best they can with what they have, it wasn't supposed to be a big budget game, the rating really screwed them, now they're trying to just get the thing out there and make back some lost money. I really don't think they're that worried about anymore bad media attention, otherwise they would have toned down or not even made another violent game after all the publicity from GTA III.
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