Manhunt 2 banned in the UK - Page 3

poprock · 19th June 2007, 3:53pm

Aye, you’re starting to look like Cory Doctorow.

MarkMono · 19th June 2007, 3:57pm

He not got those big chunky half-moon NHS specs?

*Checks google*

Aye, and a flat-top.

You'll never be a hairdresser or optometrist.

poprock · 19th June 2007, 4:22pm

Thankfully.

Zero · 19th June 2007, 5:16pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

It should also be mentioned that being refused certification doesn’t mean it’s been ‘banned’. Just means that a lot of retailers won’t want to sell it. Games aren’t legally required to be certified like movies are—submission for certification is voluntary.

It might be wrong, but the BBC article says the 'ban' means it "cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK".

Semprini · 19th June 2007, 6:32pm

Free-publicity-tastic!

Townsley · 19th June 2007, 8:11pm

by banning it more people will want it..... hell jus buy the european version over the internet

Warped · 19th June 2007, 8:30pm

Just bring out new ratings, like 21 and over.

Zero · 19th June 2007, 8:32pm

They're saying no adults at all should be able to play it. There's no difference between 18 and 21 in law AFAIK.

Veil Of Tears · 19th June 2007, 9:29pm

Its only volutary if the game does not show sexual or violent acts depicting realistic looking humans or animals. Games which dont show this kind of thing are exempt and usualy end up with a voluntary ELSPA rating, overseen by the VSC.

Any game which does have the type of content described above, or which contains non-interactive video clips or movie segments, must be rated by the BBFC before it can go on sale. This is a legal age rating just like on movies.

Alot of games used to be exempt so you rarely saw a legal rating. I think the first ones I remember seeing were the original Grand Theft Auto on PSX (still looked like an Amiga game though) for obvious reasons, and one of the Wing Commander games, because of all the film footage used in it.
These days with all the graphical improvements and current fetish for mature content, most games have to be passed by the BBFC. No rating, no selling.

Jaemi · 19th June 2007, 9:31pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

I didn’t realise that Carmageddon was ever banned. We used to play that across the Mac network at one of my old studios.

Yea, I played that game when I was younger...

**PapaZeb** · 19th June 2007, 9:36pm

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Originally Posted by Jaemi

Yea, I played that game when I was younger...

Carmageddon was never banned in the UK - the original UK version contained non-human things to run over for the first few months until the BBFC lost a case in the high-court lifting the restriction on human violence in Carmageddon and a patch was released to fix the early releases of the game.

Zero · 19th June 2007, 10:24pm

Here's a list of films which have been refused certification:
http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/rejected.htm

Almost all rejected due to sex scenes, nothing about dark 'tones'.

Connor O'Bain · 2nd July 2007, 1:05pm

edits already being made

TSR · 3rd July 2007, 11:49am

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Originally Posted by Connor O'Bain

edits already being made

grin-worthy

Big-A · 10th August 2007, 2:05am

Rumours are that it will be released in the next couple of weeks or months. What you have to ask is what did Rockstar say they'd do to the game or have already done to get a release?