We're totally enjoying CBS' coverage of Manhunt 2. After Katie Couric's eye-roll inducing Notebook entry two days ago, the odiously designed CBS.com site bubbles up a clip of Dr. Phil with Early Show host Harry Smith and journalist Scott Steinberg. We're sorry, but just try not to laugh as Smith introduces Dr. Phil to the show and Steinberg starts flailing the Wiimote trying to execute the guy on screen. Of course, you'll have to go to CBS.com to watch it. We're sorry, but the networks haven't discovered the basics of embeddable code.
Dr. Phil is far more careful here then the last time he talked about video game violence's effect on children during the Virginia Tech massacre -- probably because his hypothesis was dead wrong last time and he looked like a total (insult of choice goes here). Dr. Phil says about Manhunt 2, "Now the truth is, if somebody plays this game and then they go and do this in their life, there was something seriously wrong with them before they got the game. But it's modeling." We'd prefer if the mainstream media did a simple PSA and told parents not to let their children play M-rated games instead of all this fear mongering.
[Via GamePolitics]
Reader Comments (60)
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 9:15PM 01 said
Money Quotes:
"I want my teenage sons playing Madden and NBA" Right...because sports aren't aggressive or glorifying any negative lifestyles choice..
"..and know that a 17 year old can walk in and buy this at a store?" Amazing! Then they can walk across the street and watch Hostel II with a break for Saw IV. Those movies will really put things in perspective...
"I want my teenage sons playing Madden and NBA" Right...because sports aren't aggressive or glorifying any negative lifestyles choice..
"..and know that a 17 year old can walk in and buy this at a store?" Amazing! Then they can walk across the street and watch Hostel II with a break for Saw IV. Those movies will really put things in perspective...
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 9:25PM (Unverified) said
A) I hate websites that insist on resizing your browser
B) They also haven't gotten buffering very well figured out.
Just terrible.
B) They also haven't gotten buffering very well figured out.
Just terrible.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 9:36PM Antibot said
I never bought the argument that Dr. Phil blamed video games for anything. He makes the sensible argument that violent people are attracted to violent media. Joystiq and Game Politics.com made it seem like he said much worse. He even clarified what he said on David Letterman a few days later. (Can't find Youtube link).
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 10:13PM Ghengis said
Gamerdad had it just spot-on (don't have the link handy and too lazy to go search). He said, basically, "Look at the box, parents! It's obviously scary! It's rated "M" for 17+! DON'T BUY IT FOR YOUR 12-YEAR-OLD!"
There's not much to add to that.
There's not much to add to that.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 10:16PM (Unverified) said
Modeling? Modeling? What do you call putting real GUNS in the hands of 18yr olds and sending them off to WAR by the hundred thousands? What kind of modeling is it when they kill and watch friends die? Modeling because someone plays a game? GTFO.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 10:27PM karmaghost said
It's not that they don't know how to use embeddable code, it's just that they don't want you to embed it.
Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 5:50AM (Unverified) said
speaking of vilent.... what if some kid watches this video and see that the person who is playing wii doesn't have thier strap on and say: "hey that guy isn't using the strap and he's smart, why do I have to use it!? i am not going to use the strap anymore" and then he kills his fav. pet named Dr.phil and then he gets emotionaly cripled and then kills the REAL dr.phil. who's to blame then?
Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 8:20AM (Unverified) said
I have seen Manhunt 2 Uncut. Its violent but I have seen worse things. Wanna see one?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2584001616766026228&q=Cannibal+Holocaust&total=141&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2584001616766026228&q=Cannibal+Holocaust&total=141&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 9:32AM (Unverified) said
He's not using the Wii remote condom or the wrist strap!
Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 10:32AM (Unverified) said
Seemed like a pointless segment... but it didn't seem unfair or unbalanced. Just: so what?
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