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BBFC Rejects Manhunt 2 - game cannot be sold legally in UK

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The BBFC has rejected the video game Manhunt 2. This means that it cannot
be legally supplied anywhere in the UK. The game was submitted in both a PS2
and a Nintendo Wii version. The decision was taken by the Director and the
Presidential Team of Sir Quentin Thomas, Lord Taylor of Warwick and Janet
Lewis-Jones.

David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said:

“Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take
lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games,
modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board’s
published Guidelines. In the case of Manhunt 2 this has not been possible.
Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its
unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context
which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little
alleviation or distancing. There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in
the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.

“Although the difference should not be exaggerated the fact of the game’
s unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying and the sheer lack of
alternative pleasures on offer to the gamer, together with the different
overall narrative context, contribute towards differentiating this submission
from the original Manhunt game. That work was classified ‘18’ in 2003,
before the BBFC’s recent games research had been undertaken, but was already
at the very top end of what the Board judged to be acceptable at that
category.”

“Against this background, the Board’s carefully considered view is that
to issue a certificate to Manhunt 2, on either platform, would involve a
range of unjustifiable harm risks, to both adults and minors, within the
terms of the Video Recordings Act, and accordingly that its availability,
even if statutorily confined to adults, would be unacceptable to the public.”
Under the terms of the Video Recordings Act distributors have the right
to appeal the Board’s decision.

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