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Originally Posted by firmhonda

I fully respect your view, and understand why you wouldn't want to play a game like that around your kids or have it avaliable for them to play for that matter. My problem is this, why is there a rating system at all if it's just there to be exploited by the commission itself? Many people have reviewed this game, and not a single one has said that it deserved the a/o rating UNLESS most of the games that have only earned an m rating would've ended up with the same rating.

Their main complaint (it seems to be) is that the 5 second videos that play when you kill someone are extremely graphic, but Scarface (a game that only got an M rating) had a mission that you had to cut people up with a chainsaw for over 2 minutes. The language was more graphic in scarface, and the violence was more excessive... so why does a game with less violence, less colorful language, etc. get a higher rating?

Answer: Because it's made by Rockstar and the rating board knew that if they gave it an a/o rating it would basically be banned.

Also, I'm not going to try and talk you into playing the game or anything, but the original was an addictive as hell game to play. It's not trying to go out of its way to be as bloody as possible, it's trying to be more like a horror movie than any other game. The first Manhunt's story line was basically this: A guy got kidnapped by a psychopath, the psycho also kindapped the guys family. To save his family, the guy made him go through a series of challenges that included killing people that were trying to kill him..

Again, I'm not trying to talk you into playing it or anything, I'm just explaining the game a little better so you could understand that it's not about just being the bloodiest game ever made, it just used violence in a way that no other game has to give the horror movie theme more... captivating if you will.

true that..