Comments on: Manhunt: The story of a game still so controversial that nobody is willing to talk about it – even ten years later http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/ For all your latest Gaming News, Files, Servers & Discussion - Powered by Internode Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: hotblack http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20369 hotblack Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:16:48 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20369

spooler: I’ve discussed the possibility before yes, no if I thought it was morally acceptable I would be insane I have an evolutionary urge to fling my poop at people aswell however I don’t want to do it because I know it’s wrong and their are better ways of handling a situation.if you haven’t at one point or another wanted to brutally murder someone with a plastic bag and a hammer their is something seriously wrong with you.

I hope you live in a small town with noone living within 5km of you

]]> By: slabb http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20341 slabb Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:08:21 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20341

sklex:
Great article :)

BUT…

There was worse :) I managed to walk a copy of Manhunt 2 into the country at one stage… for the WII!

Thats right, picture Manhunt 2, but the force that you smash that guys head into the toilet bowel depended on the force you exerted with your WII remotes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJEj-9YkMNo

It was seriously wrong.

But right

B)

OMG there was a 2!!! love the granny and the grand kids having a crack, a Christmas morning ‘fun for all’ ………….mad!

]]> By: spooler http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20280 spooler Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:39:21 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20280

hotblack:
So you’d be playing Manhunt and think yeah I reckon I’d kill my boss with a plastic bag and a hammer? If that’s true you would be insane yes

I’ve discussed the possibility before yes, no if I thought it was morally acceptable I would be insane I have an evolutionary urge to fling my poop at people aswell however I don’t want to do it because I know it’s wrong and their are better ways of handling a situation.

if you haven’t at one point or another wanted to brutally murder someone with a plastic bag and a hammer their is something seriously wrong with you.

]]> By: David Rayfield http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20212 David Rayfield Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:24:05 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20212 Wow. Thanks for all the kind words folks.

Yeah, the actual content of the game sure is a sticky subject but I think in regards to how it was banned, its irrelevant. The banning wasn’t based off what was in the game but more a reaction to it being ‘controversial’ because of the murder. It’s such a strange collection of events.

I’ve checked out Manhunt 2 and maaaaaan, the violence in that is so OTT parody (shovelling a dude’s head off etc).

]]> By: hotblack http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20159 hotblack Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:20:23 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20159 So you’d be playing Manhunt and think yeah I reckon I’d kill my boss with a plastic bag and a hammer? If that’s true you would be insane yes

]]> By: spooler http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20150 spooler Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:59:53 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20150

hotblack: No, a sane person wouldn’t play a video game and then deem it a good idea to reproduce the same scenario in the real world

A sane person my fantasize ever had a boss who stole credit for all of your concepts and made you want to murder him/her ?

Sanity is not an absence of emotion even violent emotion it’s an understand an ability to healthily express the emotion.

]]> By: noobymcnoobnoob http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20148 noobymcnoobnoob Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:03:38 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20148 Dont know why all the hate for it on the forums, to me i played the game like a modern day tenchu stealth assassins (least there wasnt any fat doughnut guards like in the bonus stage). i found the stealth mechanics awesome and terrifying sitting in a dark corner listening to the skinheads insults and cat calls and watching them search around areas close to me, for me it had the same atmospheric grip as does amenisa: dark desent. but i do agree this is a game that needed a r18 plus and if i remeber correctly my ps2 copy had the little r18 circle thing on the back of the case, was a copy i got off the shelf at an eb easy as piss. things that did turn me off it was the controls when to 1st person mode when useing the other analog stick, gunplay later levels, and some kills just made me cringe ( not a torcher pron lover, hate saw, hostel ect). There were bugger all good stealth games at the time and this was more involved as you had to be quite watch the ground were you stepped and hid bodies, or leave them somewere were you want the guards to go and investigate. migh not sound like much but it was better stealth then hid in box and shoot with trancs, or having overpowered gadgets that other games give you to make it easy.

dammit gonna be hunting this down throguh my old games boxes and a good ps2 emulator now!

o and if anyone likes yahzee’s reviews heres and old one of manhunt
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6-Manhunt

]]> By: hotblack http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20097 hotblack Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:44 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20097

spooler: Really a sane person wouldn’t murder someone ?

No, a sane person wouldn’t play a video game and then deem it a good idea to reproduce the same scenario in the real world

]]> By: korbain http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20085 korbain Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:07:36 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20085 great article!

God i remember playing this before it got banned, it was brutal lol The atmosphere in the game was pretty top notch, was a seedy game, with violent people, and you were being allowed to do violent things to them lol

]]> By: spooler http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20047 spooler Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:20:30 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20047

hotblack: No sane person would make it a reality

Really a sane person wouldn’t murder someone ?

]]> By: robbiebelmont http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20012 robbiebelmont Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:05:33 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20012 Pretty fun game, like postal 2, that i play every now and then. #2 is fun but the story is kinda ham fisted

]]> By: magicfoozlepixxie http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-20007 magicfoozlepixxie Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:37:45 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-20007 That bit about Parkeerah’s remaining adamant that Manhunt was to blame got me. It takes some kind of delusion to blame a gruesome murder by a friend on a video game, instead of realising that the killer was just a dyed in the wool psychopath.

]]> By: hotblack http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19999 hotblack Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:41:02 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19999 Well written article.

They should remake it using bling graphics. Should be able to see the plastic bag get sucked in by their nostrils as they struggle to breathe…..

Seriously it’s a game. No sane person would make it a reality

]]> By: lex http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19998 lex Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:40:15 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19998

jimmah:

Exactly the same kind of violence could easily be used in say something like Heavy Rain or The Walking Dead and it would have fit perfectly into the narrative. (obviously not constantly)

I do agree with that. (the walking dead part, i never played heavy rain)

]]> By: slipoch http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19997 slipoch Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:30:54 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19997 oh and to the poster above you are allowed to bring unrated games into the country for your own use, just not retail sale

]]> By: slipoch http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19996 slipoch Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:28:55 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19996 Such a crap game, I played for an hour or so and never again, basically almost a full quicktime event game, 3 deaths for each weapon and no variability or variety in scene.
Bad graphics, standard controls, unoriginal story.

Just a shite game given attention because it was brutal.

]]> By: exe3 http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19995 exe3 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:37:55 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19995 I wanna play these games so badly now. XD

]]> By: jimmah http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19994 jimmah Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:24:54 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19994 Might have been an issue if the game was actually good.

Personally I think it is the same level of appeal that something like bum-fights exhibits.

Lowest common denominator and all that. Interesting for a couple of minutes then…

Not against video game violence in any way but the whole game was done in such a tasteless and dull manner.

Exactly the same kind of violence could easily be used in say something like Heavy Rain or The Walking Dead and it would have fit perfectly into the narrative. (obviously not constantly)

]]> By: lex http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19992 lex Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:14:13 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19992 This game went too far. I watched my brother play it and i was discussed at what i was seeing and i have never before or since been discussed at any game.

I don’t think violent video games breed violent people but i do think this game would of.

omg at that Wii commercial, sickness for the whole family.

]]> By: sklex http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19969 sklex Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:04:27 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19969 Great article :)

This was one of those games that opened my eyes to video game violence and the issue of a lack of an R18+. From memory i hired this game at around 14 from the local Game Traders and I have to admit I enjoyed the absolute hell out of it.

BUT…

There was worse :) I managed to walk a copy of Manhunt 2 into the country at one stage… for the WII!

Thats right, picture Manhunt 2, but the force that you smash that guys head into the toilet bowel depended on the force you exerted with your WII remotes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJEj-9YkMNo

It was seriously wrong.

But right

B)

]]> By: Wyld http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19967 Wyld Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:53:07 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19967 Excellent article David, seriously, top notch.

]]> By: spooler http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19966 spooler Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:41:35 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19966

surely, on some level that has to be worse than an animated plastic bag over a virtual character’s head.

both sides of the violent video game argument are militant and honestly equally wrong.

Most people at sometime in their life will snap emotionally we all break down we all have moments of angst especially teenagers growing up in the digital age it’s quite easy to feel lost and without meaning I know at points I definitely have.

Sure video games won’t “make” you go out and brutalize your neighbors, but if you have just slightly the wrong mentality is it impossible to believe they could contribute ? elevation of fantasy occurs all the time have the fantasy of wanting to find out what it’s like to kill someone and experience it in a “realistic” scenario and if that kid snaps the risk of them elevating it from fantasy to something they actually do would surely increase.

Is that a reason to bad “A” game, of course not however there is a problem here there but it’s not “violent games are evil”, it’s disturbed/depressed/angry teens/adolescents are not getting attention that they need and THAT is a real problem.

Games don’t cause mental issues sure but they have to have some effect on those already disturbed, the games saying “there is no problem the media are being idiots need to adjust it to “there is a problem, games might contribute but we should do X rather than attempt to ban games”.

I really think both sides need to calm down to see what the issue here actually is how much impact it is and how it can be mitigated instead of assigning blame like children.

]]> By: psychofruiterer http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19964 psychofruiterer Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:24:43 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19964 That last one is the ending of the game, like, the final boss fight…

]]> By: slabb http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19963 slabb Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:17:21 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19963 Great point of view, a well written article. The crazy Mortal Kombat violence seems to do it in a ‘tongue in cheek’ kind of way.

I have never played the game manhunt but that execution video, particularly the last one where the fat guy is pushing his guts back in the gaping wound and begging for mercy goes way too far!

This game best stay in the vault

]]> By: pinkwithhappiness http://games.on.net/2013/02/manhunt-the-story-of-a-game-still-so-controversial-that-nobody-is-willing-to-talk-about-it-even-ten-years-later/#comment-19961 pinkwithhappiness Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:47:31 +0000 http://games.on.net/?p=15717#comment-19961 Great article GON :)

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