October 12th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Interviews
Well now, color us
shocked that the recent version of
Manhunt 2 that was
cleaned up for our friends across the pond turned out to be the same exact game that received a "Mature" rating by the ESRB here in the states. So, what's mature to us is absolutely intolerable to them, apparently.
This might cause one to think that the BBFC is tougher on games than, say, movies, as the country had no problem allowing films such as
Hostel and
Saw into the country. BBFC spokesperson Sue Clark says otherwise, stating "If we were more tough on games than any other medium, don't you think we'd be banning far more titles?
Manhunt 2 is the second game we have rejected in 23 years. I'd hardly call that draconian." She goes on further to add "Manhunt 2 went beyond our guidelines when it came to gross violence and we had a public duty to reject it."
Looks like there is still
a lot of debate left here.
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October 5th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Interviews, Video
We loving seeing local news stations try to cover gaming news, because their coverage is almost always based on misinformation. Seriously, who does the research for these folk? Certainly not someone capable and unbiased, that's for sure.
And while it's easy to write off this latest piece from New York City-based ABC 7, at least they aren't being particularly negative about the control scheme in the Wii version of
Manhunt 2. In fact, based on their on-the-street interviews, it would seem most gamers look at the control scheme as being a positive aspect of the title, allowing the player to become more immersed in the game's world. Considering how easy it would be for ABC 7 to just say this is a murder training simulation, we'll just be thankful that at least some section of the report was devoted to arguing
for the game.
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September 26th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
Whoever said the cost of living is high never lived within the confines of a video game. Turns out, the price of a life trapped inside of a disc is rather reasonable, as Rockstar's
Manhunt 2 will only charge you the small sum of $39.99 to get in on its action.
Since we were interested in the game
anyway, this news only causes our anticipation for gesture-based homicide to grow that much more. We do wonder, though, if any of you skeptics out there are brought down from the fence?
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September 26th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors
Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey is of the mind that 2K's much-hyped game
Bioshock could find itself on the PS3, Wii, PS2 and handhelds sometime in the future. Hickey says this won't happen for quite some time, though, stating that he believes the game could make its way onto these platforms sometime in 2009.
While we've seen Rockstar's own RAGE engine adapted to the Wii in the Nintendo console version of their
Table Tennis game, we wonder if the Unreal Engine III that powers
Bioshock could even be augmented for use on the Wii. We've heard Epic's Mark Rein state that he
doubts the system can handle it on
multiple occasions, so we wonder if 2K could even get it to work with the Wii.
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