Child advocates upset over `Manhunt 2'

hippymomma posted 1 year 32 weeks ago — According to Associate Press: "Child advocates are urging parents not to buy "Manhunt 2," a video game whose characters kill and torture using implements ranging from glass and shovels to a fuse box and a toilet.

The title goes on sale Wednesday — Halloween — rated "mature," appropriate for people 17 and up, for about $28. In the first-person killer fantasy, the players take on the role of a man escaping from an insane asylum.
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James Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group that advises parents about television, movies, Internet sites and video games that may be inappropriate for children.

Steyer, who has not seen the version of the game being released this week, was talking about an unrated version that has been circulating free on the Internet since August. That version contains more violence and sexually explicit content than the one being released commercially, including a scene where a man's testicles are mutilated with a pliers.

"It's disgusting," Steyer said. "It's so violent, it struck me personally as pornographic violence."
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...the pliers-and-genitalia scene isn't in the official version, but players may use pliers to torture.

The Take-Two spokesman acknowledged that "Manhunt 2" was meant "specifically for those players mature enough to appreciate it."

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He must be referring to people we might call insane and homicidal. Good grief!