"We believe the process of rating video games is to help people make informed entertainment choices and not to limit them," a Take-Two representative said. This gives publishers unhappy with ratings the chance to either modify their games and resubmit them for a second assessment, or go before the ESRB's appeals board to challenge it directly. While not an outright ban, the rating would severely limit a game's sales potential, as most major American retailers have chosen not to carry games rated AO.Īs for the reason this is only an "initial" rating, when the ESRB rates a game, it notifies the publisher 30 days prior to publicly releasing its decision.
#Manhunt 2 ao software
Get it done.Earlier today, the British Board of Film Classification gave Manhunt 2 a thumbs down, banning it from sale in the UK due to its "unremitting bleakness" and "casual sadism." Now it appears the Entertainment Software Rating Board is ready to hand down its own most restrictive rating to the latest controversial offering from Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games.Ī Take-Two representative told GameSpot today that the ESRB has issued an initial rating of AO for Adults Only to Manhunt 2. I hope that Manhunt 2 somehow gets the same content but passed with an “M” rating and let it be an example of exactly the kind of gamer that the game is for: People 17 years of age and older and no one else. The damn games have ratings for a reason. Also parents and their stupidity are a huge part to blame as well. The fact that people are arguing that “M” rated games are being marketed to kids might be true, but that is the fault of the game company making the game and not the rating or the game itself. Didn’t we already do this before in years past? “M” rated games cannot be sold to under age kids anyway. If the game is “M” rated for people 17 years old or older, then Manhunt 2 should never ever be allowed to be sold to anyone under the age of 17 or without an ID. A game is still a game no matter how much violence is in it. Those movies are for Adults only right? Also movies are worse than games because you are looking at real people. How may XXX rated movies were rated that way for violence? None. If “M” rated means the same as “R” rated, then the content in Manhunt 2 deserves an “M” rating. Manhunt 2 probably does clasify as an “M” rated game anyway. I’m sure “M” rated Manhunt 2 will be released instead.
Just make Manhunt 2 “unrated” and maybe we’ll be able to play the original version.
#Manhunt 2 ao movie
How about when a movie is released to DVD and they always have the “unrated” version to rent? The movie was rated “R” but the “unrated” version no doubt would be higher than “R” maybe “NC-17″ but nothing is said about that because it is “unrated”. Movies and video games have a double standard when it comes to this rating stuff. It will be a watered down version just so everyone will have a chance to PLAY the game?! This is a strange country we live in. I understand that Manhunt 2 has “prolonged scenes of intense violence” to warrant an “AO” rating, but just because of this rating we will not be able to play the game Rockstar had intended us to play. To make it “M” rated by taking out what they had originally done with the game is not really freedom of speech in America. I know Wal-Mart and just about every store will not carry a game with an “AO” rating but to sacrifice the content of the developers dream for the sake of making other people happy, is wrong. I hope (somehow,but not likely) that Nintendo will let this game be licensed and sold.
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