ManHunt 2 Still Banned

It's a shocking disgrace that Manhunt 2 has yet again been declined a classification by the BBFC. The makers, Rockstar, went off and made changes to the game to try and make it a little more acceptable to the BBFC (something they shouldn't have had to do in the first place) but still the BBFC won't budge. The first paragraph of the BBC news story says it all really:

Censors have rejected a revised version of computer game Manhunt 2 which was blamed by a schoolboy's parents for his murder - a claim dismissed by police.

Right so we have a game being banned because some claimed it caused something which it actually didn't. Is this really the world we live in? The genre of adult video games deserves the same respect as the world of cinema. Interestingly it is being released in the US in three weeks time. Of course though it's always been the way that the censors in the US don't mind violence, as long as the sex is heavily censored - the BBFC have always swung the other way.

Manhunt was one of the best games I've ever played and I am so looking forward to Manhunt 2 but if the BBFC have their way I won't ever get to play it, because there is no proven link between playing a violent game and committing acts of violence. Ridiculous.

However all is not a total dead loss for British gamers - we won a gold...for playing Command and Conquer 3. How proud his parents must be!