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29th July, 2004 at 12:37:01 -

Hey dudes, don't know if you've heard about this yet, but in the UK there's a massive outcry against Manhunt. A 17 year old killed his best friend with a claw hammer, but was obsessed with the game. PC World, Dixons and Currys are to withdraw the game immediately from their shelves, and Woolworths could yet follow... so if you want a copy of the game (PAL), now is probably the best time to get it before it gets banned

 
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29th July, 2004 at 12:38:37 -

yeah. what a load of balls. blame it on the parents, not the games!

 
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29th July, 2004 at 12:51:58 -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3936597.stm

Its not Woolworths, btw, I meant GAME and WH Smith... but I can't edit my post... blargh.

 
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29th July, 2004 at 13:02:36 -

haha, ironic when stuff like this happens, it just creates massive amounts of interest in the game and MORE people play it. i agree it's a load of balls. this is the kind of stupid nannying censorship we could do without. it's not rockstar's problem if stupid kids play their games, it's the retailer's and the parent's fault.

 
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29th July, 2004 at 13:27:35 -

Didn't a load of this stuff come around as product of... Grand Theft Auto?

Well, GTA isn't banned yet!

 
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29th July, 2004 at 13:32:09 -

Stupid kid. Manhunt sucks anyway.

 
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30th July, 2004 at 05:55:10 -

Manhunt sucks, as do GTA3 and Vice City. But it's still ridiculous to stop selling them.

I'm not a fan of so-called "mature games" you're obviously not mature if you're scared to be seen playing Zelda.

 
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30th July, 2004 at 06:17:07 -

Coincidently I read that article today on BBC.com while searching for the bipeal brain-damaged monkey. Dumb kids.

 
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30th July, 2004 at 07:33:47 -

what? Im not reading this correctly. Manhunt AND GTA 3 sucks? Manhunt can be a bit boring from time to time, but it has a great story line. And GTA 3 vice city is probably the best game ever - aside from HL and MGS.

 
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30th July, 2004 at 12:09:51 -

Who'd have thought it, a deranged kid who loves violence plays violent video games

 
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30th July, 2004 at 12:40:07 -

HEY FORUM USER WITH CRAPPY MONKEY ANIMATION


MANHUNT SUCKS

 
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30th July, 2004 at 13:20:00 -

Do you know the story, have you ever sat down, close the curtins and turned off the lights in your room and played manhunt and finished it? I didnt say manhunt was the gratest game ever, but it sure dont suck!

 
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30th July, 2004 at 14:48:07 -

Can't these fucking tabloids blame the kids themselves instead of reaching to find some unfitting scapegoat? It's like Child's Play 3 all over again.

 
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30th July, 2004 at 15:39:46 -

No, but I'm saying Chucky told those kids to kill James Bulger. Have you never seen Child's Play 3, Chucky clearly says on it "Youngsters everywhere, kidnap a child then torture kill him," it wasn't anything to do with the media finding a scapgoat, honest. Our darling young kids don't just kill people without a reason, just like they don't nick cars and vandilise property, young people would never do that without having their fragile little brains corrupted by evil things such as 18-rated video games and movies.

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30th July, 2004 at 17:37:45 -

this was on the frontpage of the Daily Mail today, it's so annoying: "BAN THESE EVIL GAMES". they had a list of games and bullshit descriptions of them - Hitman, GTA, Manhunter (of course), some others, and Doom 3. this one amused me because Doom 3 isn't even out yet. also it involves killing aliens on mars, yeah, i'm sure that'll make loads of kids go out and shoot martians. how about, instead of "BAN THESE EVIL GAMES", we have "BAN THESE EVIL KIDS". any kid who is commits some attrocity is not only named and shamed, but locked up for life and the key thrown away. it pisses me off that the bulger killers are out and living off taxpayer money. it pisses me off that columbine was blamed on Doom. it pisses me off that manhunter is being slagged off just because some psychotic kid goes hammer mad on some other kid. it's all bullshit, and it's bullshit that's going to potentially stop good games like Grand Theft Auto being sold in the future. trevor's absoloutly right, we have to blame the kids, and not the games. kids shouldn't even be playing these games anyway. they all have 18 ratings - and ultimately it falls at the feet of the parents to supervise their kids, not the retailers selling the games to underage kids.

i've been waiting to rant about that since i saw the paper this afternoon

 
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30th July, 2004 at 18:55:47 -

I agree with you Pete except for the bit about GTA3 being good...

 
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31st July, 2004 at 03:28:15 -

James Bulger was a toddler who was kindapped by these two evil little fuckers and tortured until he died, then they put his body on a railway track to make it look like an accident. One of the boy's dad had rented Child's Play 3, so obviously, the media being so niave, chose to blame the killings on that, because it's a scientifically proven fact that kids can't be evil. Like Hitler was probably a very nice child, but soon as he turned 18, he suddendly thought "Genocide, that sounds like a good idea..."

 
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31st July, 2004 at 03:36:17 -

"Do you know the story, have you ever sat down, close the curtins and turned off the lights in your room and played manhunt and finished it? I didnt say manhunt was the gratest game ever, but it sure dont suck!"

I own the game. I hate it.
LOL @ the thought of you closing your curtains and turning the lights off to play a computer game.


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31st July, 2004 at 03:45:32 -

It's best to think of Manhunt as less of a game, and more as just entertainment.
Sure, it's not got brilliant gameplay, but the fun factor is cool. Breaking people's heads with a baseball bat of hacking their heads off with machetes makes me feel happy. I'm talking about in game by the way, I'm 21, the game can't corrupt my strong, adult mind.

 
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31st July, 2004 at 20:25:33 -

I'm not suprised. Here in Sweden they banned Darkwing Duck from TV. Reason? Too violent...

 
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31st July, 2004 at 22:16:55 -

carebears are the evil ones!

 
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1st August, 2004 at 08:53:06 -

Yeah, I mean that red one, it was a subliminal message for all kids to become Satanists.


Oh and Pete, I hope you didn't buy the Daily Mail to read that headline

 
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1st August, 2004 at 17:51:56 -

all that 'evil games and movies telling kids to do things' is bull. i mean, if it worked with that, it should've worked with the episode in barney where they tell you not to let the water run while you brush your teeth. i don't think one kid on earth listened to that, except those kids on the show. hell, if i had a huge, purple t. rex asking me to brush my teeth, i'd brush the damn things twice.

 
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2nd August, 2004 at 07:03:06 -

Violent computer games are used as a scape goat once again. It annoys me when the headlines do this; they don't understand computer games and they assume all games are for children.

 
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