Well, what did you think would happen?
Sky News have reprted the following;
Basically, it is a whinging article with undertones of "Down with this sort of thing" indicating that people are downloading and playing Manhunt 2 over the itnernet. Shock. Fucking. Horror.
What in the name of Larry Flints lunch did you think was going to happen? You banned somethign in a high profile way and said it was a grim and deplorably violent game, that people would find it revolting and far too sick. Youo may as well have stood in Picadilly Circus handing out free copies because all you did was encourage a mythos around the game. A mystique of ellicit thrills.
They have claimed that the game unfolds without a complex plot, sympathy with the victim or any kind of moral framework. What about Bubble-Bobble? What was the plot in that? It might seem pleasant that little monsters are caught in bubbles and float away but what is that if not a metaphor for chemical warfare against another species? Where is the sympathy for the vitcims there? How about Streets of Rage (a less hyperbolic example) where the player, donning the mantle of a vigilante, enacts a vicious genocide of street thugs and gangsters that would make even the most viscious South American dictator mutter about "moderation"? Or Mortal Kombat, where Sub Zero pulled off heads with trailing spines and Jax pulled off people arms? There was a little humming and hawing on this one admitedly, but it was still passed and it doesnt have a complex plot, sympathy for he victim or a moral frame work!
Actually, if you really want to whinge about victims why in the fuck are you concerned with computer sprites? Why not spend the resources directing peoples attention away from short term thrills of a video game to the real world horrors happening in Burma, Chad, Darfur, South Africa and countless other places "Whitey" and "the Man" have bollocksed things up? Or if entertainment (and here we are talking about "pleasure") why havent The Spice Girls, Steps, or any of the other factory-bands been banned? there is nothing complex about them and their dispicably inane noise is directed towards prepubescent teenage girls in the most unrelletningly cynical fashion - surely someone finds that kind of thing offensive enough to have it banned or at least restricted?
For all the sycophantic tutting the media will do while licking up to the censors I for one applaud the downloading of this piece of software, not for the content (which, judging by the first one, is probably rather dull after about twenty minutes) but in rebellion at the nannying and stupifyingly arrogant measures taken by the censors in this matter. Who do they think they are that they can decide what is palletable and what is not? What qualifications must you have to be a censor anyway?
There is a demand. You have tried to stem the supply. The people have found a new source. Its human nature if we cant get it here, we will get it elsewhere.
... I can feel that vomit coming again.
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