Rockstar announce Manhunt II

I enjoyed the first game until the run and gun levels. The only reason I bought the PS2 headset was for this game. Made it alot more creepy with Brian Cox whispering sweet nothings in my ear. Hopefully the Wii controls are implemented well and not just tacked on. Definately a rental for me.

Jesus. The first one made me feel dirty. If this one on the Wii involves such instructions as, "To stab an enemy in the face with a shard of glass, grab him using the nunchuck attachment then, while hold B, repetedly stab the Wii remote in a downward arc," it'll be beyond fucked up.



And I'll HAVE to play it.

Hopefully they program some competent AI into this.

And maybe a point while they're at it.

Never had a desire to play the first one, but using the remote and nunchuk in more fucked up ways than WarioWare could ever realize sounds appealing to me.

Is this the first Rockstar game on a Nintendo console since their port of Smuggler's Run?

Saw the trailer. I suspect there is some serious mind control bullshit at play. It either case unsettling as hell. Although I heard James "Voice of Dr. Venture" Urbanik is involved.

Also I could swear parts of the game reminded me of an Outer Limits episode where a guy creates a device to make the person think he's in prison when in fact he's just sitting there. A sort of spin on the Total Recall device.

I've heard the first couple seconds of the trailer blast out of my speakers every time I've gone to Chud.com in the last two days. Can someone attach a different fucking story to the main url?

I marked CHUD as my home page a long time ago so every time I hit the home button I get an update on how the latest victim is doing in this game. I want to punch the computer screen when it comes blasting out of my speakers.

I can't take it any more. It's driving me insane.

If they let you use the wii-mote for piano wire strangulation im all in.

Brian Cox was a good reason to play Manhunt. The stabbing wasn't all too enjoyable, but the atmosphere especially in the final levels (pigsy) were great.

The first game is still one of the best games I've ever played. Rockstar knows how to really make it near impossible towards the end when you have to fight the SWAT-like Cerebus guards. I'm looking forward to this game. I had that same problem with the trailer loading everytime I would open CHUD, but I'm assuming it's fixed now, because it hasn't happened to me since saturday.

Saw the new trailer, while I've got no desire to play the game I'm intrigued as hell as to what exactly is the story.

Oh and word is that neither Brian Cox, Carcer City nor anything connected to Manhunt 1 will be involved in this one.

Yes, finally, the "sawing a man's groin" simulator I've been so desperately wanting...

I'm more excited for this than I probably should be.

I've finally started playing through this (way late to the party, I know) and I gotta say I find it almost unbearably repetitive ("almost" because I've yet to give up on it). I wonder if this second one will fix some of those issues.

In all the furor that's sure to rise when this game is released, all the talk of the perversion of America's youth, of a society on the brink of moral collapse, of the rampant corruption of videogames, I'd hate to see one simple, innocent fact be forgotten.

Manhunt fucking sucked.

BANNED!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172704...stnews;title;0

Or, rather than BANNED:

BBFC GUARANTEES WORLDWIDE SUCCESS OF 'MANHUNT II'!

The first game in 10 years to be banned over here. It joins Thrill-Kill and Carmeggedon, so we know it's guranteed to be quality.

Seriously, this sucks. I was actually quite anticipating being able to remove someones fingernails with a pair of pliers using the Wiimote.

Thrill-Kill was never released anywhere, I don't think.

Also, it's spelled Carmageddon.

Amen. Nine times out of ten it's always the shitty "shocking" games that draw the most heat. I mean anyone remember the rancid boil that was BMXXX?

Pretty surprising. The BBFC have got pretty damn liberal since the Carmageddon business- they're a lot more so than the MPAA or ELSPA these days, in fact.

I'm kind of in two minds on this one. I'm normally anti-censorship, but so few people have actually played the games it's hard to judge whether this was justified at all.

It certainly did.

It's also gotten tagged with an AO rating now. Doubt we'll be seeing it any time soon.

Somewhere Jack Thompson is rolling around in mud, squealing with glee.

Fixed.

There's never been an AO rated game before, am I correct? I would think Gamestop would still carry it.

If no one will, maybe they'll just make the entire game black and white or something, and go for an appeal.

Things have gotten worse. Nintendo and Sony refuse to grant licensing to the game, citing a policy against the sale of AO rated games. Meaning it can't be published at all right now.

Awesome, the world is spared another Manhunt game.

You bitter bastard. It was a decent game.

Manhunt was a great game. It was challenging as fuck too. This is a travesty. I hope Rockstar works things out so they can still meet the release date.

Well that's just shitty.

Much like Brad, I hated Manhunt. But at the same time it sounded like they were doing some interesting things with the Wii remote for the sequel, and I was curious to check it out. Probably still would have sucked though.

Nah, it sucked. I can see why like, a thirteen year old would be all into it, though.

(stamps foot) You're stupid!

I don't care so much about the game. It looked interesting, but I never played the first one, so I have no real investment.

What I find unnerving is how a violent game is getting completely shut down like this. They don't want to sell to kids? Fine, I agree with age restrictions for the most part. But I'm not a child, I'm not even a teenager, and unlike politicans or certain lawyers I can separate fantasy from reality.

No sir, I believe it is you who are stupid.

Also, I have it on good authority that your face bears a striking resemblance to a butt, Butt-Face.

Stop using big words LOL you think your smart or something?

I do agree with this, generally. I might be concerned if I didn't think this was basically what Rockstar's marketing plan was already. How many more people will want to buy this when it does eventually come out due to this fiasco? Because it will.

Also, if it was a game other than Manhunt 2.

That's what creeps me out too. Especially since it appears that giving a game an AO rating is basically banning it in a sneaky way. I really wanted to check this out, and I hope they don't cancel it.

Oh and Ireland banned it as well.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/20/su...manhunt-2-too/

I really don't see how this is up to them, at all.

They'll probably cut/edit some parts, re-submit it, and get the M rating. Financially, there's too much at stake to keep this game off the shelves, "artistic integrity" be damned; money talks.

Who knows? Maybe this was all orchestrated to generate a huge batch of free publicity.

I honestly don't think they anticipated an AO rating. Besides it being a rating rarely given out, it's got to be prohibitively expensive to edit a finished game, and I seriously doubt this is a case of one or two objectionable scenes. I'm sure they planned on "controversial" free publicity upon release, but this is expensive and embarrassing for a company still wiping the egg off its face over the Hot Coffee mess. Additionally, there's really no evidence this kind of extreme shock factor controversy has ever translated into game sales.

I have a hunch this game is never coming out, not because Take Two won't try, but because the ESRB may refuse to give it an M rating until it's edited within an inch of its life. For them, this is a slam-dunk test case to prove they have the leverage to police the industry. It's a highly objectionable game from a company already on the shit list, and it's not like this is GTA 4 or anything. Who's going to vocally defend Manhunt 2?

For what it's worth, though, the AO rating and ban is exactly what Jack Thompson doesn't want. How is he going to win a gigantic lawsuit and make an assload of money if the industry polices itself effectively?

Exactly.

Just like the NC-17 rating, which is used more to keep a film out of theaters than to actually stop anyone under 17 from seeing it. R should be sufficient (even with the accompanying adult clause) if theaters could more easily control who got into what movie. Instead they make it easy on themselves and refuse to screen anything with an NC-17 rating, much like stores will refuse to sell a game with an AO rating.

They did that for the "interrogation" scenes from The Punisher game, to avoid getting an AO rating.

I was genuinely curious about this game. Control scheme aside, its not even the violence that I'm interested in-- it just seems plain weird, and less gritty in the juvenile sense.