M-rated Manhunt 2 leaves testes intact
by Justin McElroy 
{ Sep 12th 2007 at 11:00AM }
Though IGN says that the game is "mechanically identical" to its wicked AO twin, they said there are some more "cosmetic" changes. First off, the game's death strikes have been blurred and darkened to the point that the heinous act being done is unidentifiable. Like using a vending machine blindfolded, you just use a push a couple of buttons and hope that you get a Snickers. Though IGN says the kills are still fun, they say they're less rewarding in the still-not-particularly-family-friendly version.
There's something much more heinous in the changes though: You can no longer rip an enemy's testicles off with pliers. ... Hear that? It's the sound of Manhunt 2's GOTY award flying out the window. This is 2007! What's the point of even playing a game if you can't rip some testicles asunder? Oh, also: -1 to Manhunt 2 machinima.
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drklrdbill @ Sep 12th 2007 11:08AM
ok, i'm not longer buying this game. no testicle ripping is lame
NATO_Duke @ Sep 12th 2007 11:26AM
I can't believe they would even make a game without testicle ripping. I thought the FCC, FAA, FDA, and FFF made rules saying that all games had to have digital testicle ripping in them by late 2007.
Lucky @ Sep 12th 2007 11:10AM
WHAT!?!?!?1 TESTICAL RIPPING!?!?!?1
._________.
Burbank @ Sep 12th 2007 1:15PM
It's the new bullet time.
ThornedVenom @ Sep 13th 2007 4:37AM
It's the new hammer time.
Matt B @ Sep 12th 2007 11:10AM
We definitely needed a more politically correct and gore censored murder simulator.
I am glad you guys get to finally play the game though.
Neon Jebus @ Sep 12th 2007 11:16AM
With all the choices one has to offer up photo symbolism to testicles you go with two balls of yarn. Something in your brain works kind of odd and it scares me sir.
I liked the first Manhunt but since this is PS2 / Wii I don't get to play it. Perhaps it is for the best.
Lemmiwinks @ Sep 12th 2007 12:30PM
Actually, considering what the actual anatomy of what a testicle is made up of, a ball of yarn is a pretty good analogy.
Neon Jebus @ Sep 12th 2007 1:21PM
Well Lemmiwinks I'll never look at a cute cat activity the same way again.
Lemmiwinks @ Sep 12th 2007 2:19PM
That and a knitting grandmother...
phoenix @ Sep 12th 2007 11:17AM
"First off, the game's death strikes have been blurred and darkened to the point that the heinous act being done is unidentifiable."
What's the point of the game now? ManHunt 1 was pretty weak and basically the whole point of the game was to see the deathshots, even those got old after a while. ManHunt 2 better have some actual gameplay now since it's sounding like it can't just fall back on it's gore sequences.
Jonah Falcon @ Sep 12th 2007 11:26AM
Um, you could never castrate anyone in Manhunt 2 in the FIRST place. That was Jack Thompson's made-up claim.
BPM @ Sep 12th 2007 1:28PM
Dude, Casamassina played the previous build and performed said act himself. Why else would he note it's gone now?
robert @ Sep 12th 2007 11:28AM
According to police, 32-year-old Texas fan Brian Christopher Thomas walked into Henry Hudson's Pub on June 17 wearing a Longhorns T-shirt and quickly became the focus of football "trash talk" from another regular, 53-year-old Oklahoma fan Allen Michael Beckett.
Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him to the ground and wouldn't let go, even as bar patrons tried to break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down and realized the extent of his injuries.
"He could see both of his testicles hanging on the outside of his body," said Thomas' attorney, Carl Hughes. "He was wearing a pair of white shorts, which made it that much worse."
It took more than 60 stitches to close the wound.
this is from an AP Wire news story i read just before checking out joystiq this morning. what's with all the testicular news today?
Farseer @ Sep 12th 2007 12:24PM
lol, I was wondering if someone was going to bring that up! :)
elmersglue @ Sep 12th 2007 12:35PM
dude, i cringed and squirmed as i read that... ouch.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:17PM
Indeed, real life violence can make me cringe but horribly pixilated, over the top fake violence is just fun.
KingAdrock99 @ Sep 19th 2007 9:14AM
OMG He was wearing White shorts? And after Labor Day? That's a travesty!
vidGuy @ Sep 12th 2007 11:39AM
This game went from a MUST BUY to a MIGHT RENT for me due to the blurred kill scenes. If they aren't even going to include what was in the original, which wasn't that good to begin with, I'm not interested.
WiNG @ Sep 12th 2007 11:42AM
I'm gonna have to say the scene in Sin City satisfied my crotch-ripping quota for life. I really don't need to see that again!
Not that I was gonna buy MH2 anyway.
As a joke they should release an E rated version!!!
Christopher Grant @ Sep 12th 2007 11:48AM
I thought you said Sim City ... which led to a really weird moment there.
Neon Jebus @ Sep 12th 2007 11:54AM
You questioning my mayoral skills? I said I'm zoning this area Commercial and I would suggest you NOT have a complaint about it!
hvnlysoldr (NDF - Wind Ring) @ Sep 12th 2007 12:29PM
"From today you're the mayor"
- oft-misquoted Sakurai
Billy Bastard @ Sep 12th 2007 11:44AM
It really is a shame...
But seriously people, you know there will be a code to unlock the footage.
They haven;t actually taken the sequences out, remember, just added some bullshit filtering and such.
I imagine this will end up like the true gore code for GTA 3 (the level of violence that was lowered after September 11th, in addition to other edits like planes, police cars, and building similarities.)
tactics @ Sep 12th 2007 11:56AM
this sounds lame now. major bummer. censorship sucks.
-"superfan" tactics.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:19PM
Indeed, censorship sucks more than getting your testicles ripped off. That's why I love the internet.
Edge @ Sep 12th 2007 12:11PM
Well... nuts.
(Pun completely and unrepentantly intended.)
Sean @ Sep 12th 2007 12:12PM
Planet Terror had a pretty excellent testicle scene.
Ska Oreo @ Sep 12th 2007 12:44PM
yes it did. I think Robert Rodriguez has some sort of fetish that involves removal of a man's reproductive organs.
Sean @ Sep 12th 2007 1:32PM
That + Quentin Tarantino being creepy as hell = A+
Ska Oreo @ Sep 12th 2007 12:37PM
This thread has proved one thing and one thing only:
You kids are shallow as hell.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:20PM
Haha, "shalow", this coming from a DBZ fan. No offense, show was good when I was a kid but it was about as deep as a smashed soda can.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:21PM
Damn keyboard, really have to press on the "L" key harder, obviously I meant shallow.
Rob Accomando @ Sep 12th 2007 12:48PM
Blurred and darkened? wtf. Why can't there be an option to turn it on or off? May seem shallow, but it's videogame, not Shakespeare.
Shagittarius @ Sep 12th 2007 1:28PM
My sack is really just 2 testicles duct-tapped together.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:40PM
Who let the troll out of his play-pen? Seriously, what is your beaf with the Wii? Did the Wii rape your sister and kill your father or something?
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 1:43PM
Who let the troll out of his play-pen? Seriously, what is your beaf with the Wii? Did the Wii rape your sister and kill your father or something? Did it piss in your cherios? Bust a nut in your macaroni? Did it skull-fu** you, record it and destribute it to all your closest friends and family? Did it cheat on your with your PS3?
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 12th 2007 1:44PM
That wasn't even a stab at the Wii man. I thought it was a classic duct tape joke, like this one.
Rubang B's heart is just 2 ventricles duct taped together.
Anticrawl @ Sep 12th 2007 3:17PM
Well if you know Shagittarius you'll know he's a vicious and rabid ps3 fanboy. Being a fanboy is all fine and dandy but this guy makes em look bad with his venom filled attacks at everyone.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 12th 2007 1:42PM
My favorite testicle-ripping scene is from Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter from 1974. He rips them off with a chunk of the man's underwear and then the guy immediately falls over and bleeds to death.
borntokill @ Sep 12th 2007 2:13PM
theres leaked versions online already. not sure if theyre uncut, but if not, i'm sure the uncut version will make it sooner than later. just have your mod chips and your pliers ready at all times.
Dakara @ Sep 12th 2007 2:50PM
God this sickens me. I'm 26 and I don't want my games sensored. Hell, if you don't want kids to play it, don't buy it for them.
I worked for a hideous used game store chain(who shall be nameless)and you would not believe how many parents, come in with their kids, the kid begs for halo or GTA or some other M game, I flip the game over and say, "This game is rated mature for blood, gore, drug use, and sexual acts with a goat, are you sure you want this for your kid (who is 6 years old)." and I would say 99.9% of the time the parents exact words are, "Yeah, sure. It's fine." or "oh, he's/she's played it at a friends house, it's ok. He/she is used to it."
Screw you Jack Thomson, screw you the ratings board and FUCK Uwe Bolle. I'm having a bad week....
Vegnagun @ Sep 12th 2007 3:14PM
You hear that Jack Thompson? You just got hit with some logic the likes of which I can't fathom.
Shockgamer @ Sep 12th 2007 3:12PM
PC AO or no sale.
BPM @ Sep 12th 2007 3:37PM
Oh, this blogpost needs more PSP tag.
ikiryou @ Sep 12th 2007 4:06PM
So it's okay to kill hookers in GTA: San Andreas but we can't have any sack-ripping with pliers in MH2. I see, a nice double standard. What about the virtual hookers? Who speaks for them?
4cr JaXs @ Sep 12th 2007 7:48PM
ESAD ESRB