Comments on: Hack Re-Enables Violence in PSP Manhunt 2 http://www.planetsean.com/hack-re-enables-violence-in-psp-manhunt-2/ "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Luke http://www.planetsean.com/hack-re-enables-violence-in-psp-manhunt-2/#comment-3 Luke Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:45:01 +0000 http://www.planetsean.com/hack-re-enables-violence-in-psp-manhunt-2/#comment-3 My first instinct is to say that Rockstar apparently didn't learn anything from the Hot Coffee fiasco, but really, it seems like they did. Little lessons, like "well, we disabled the stuff, they need to break the game to see it" is actually a decent excuse, and that there's nothing like a little controversy to make your standard horror B-movie knockoff of a game a best seller. People are going to say this is slipshod programming at best or an example of low morals in video games at worst. I say it's a prime example of how people need to grow up. Get rid of the pointless onus attached to the AO rating and release some mature games that are actually mature instead of just Leisure Suit Larry sequels. Or hell, go ahead and bowdlerize the original release of the game, then release an "unrated" version a couple months later with everything put back in. If Saw can do it, why shouldn't Manhunt be able to do the same? My first instinct is to say that Rockstar apparently didn’t learn anything from the Hot Coffee fiasco, but really, it seems like they did. Little lessons, like “well, we disabled the stuff, they need to break the game to see it” is actually a decent excuse, and that there’s nothing like a little controversy to make your standard horror B-movie knockoff of a game a best seller.

People are going to say this is slipshod programming at best or an example of low morals in video games at worst. I say it’s a prime example of how people need to grow up. Get rid of the pointless onus attached to the AO rating and release some mature games that are actually mature instead of just Leisure Suit Larry sequels.

Or hell, go ahead and bowdlerize the original release of the game, then release an “unrated” version a couple months later with everything put back in. If Saw can do it, why shouldn’t Manhunt be able to do the same?

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