Manhunt 2 retail vs. uncensored: a video comparison

The graphics are so laughably bad.

it all looks pretty much the same. I dont see how they changed much. I mean, its all mature stuff. Making it a requirement to be 18 as apposed to 17 is pretty silly. I wouldnt let my kids play that (or any other M game)

They both look fairly similar to me. The camera in both versions sucks...Based entirely on this I'm not really sure why kills in the uncut version are supposed to be more "satisfying" but I could be wrong.

It's like it's screaming 'look I've been censored.' They could've done something better than that.

I actually think the filters make the kills a little better. Like in a horror movie to make it feel like your insane. Yeah the graphics are not amazing but it still has that feel to it.

Hahahaha, I thought the ESRB was flexing its muscle and trying to gain some credibility, but this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I'd like to meet the mythical parent that would let their parent play Manhunt 1 and Manhunt 2 Retail but not Manhunt 2 Uncut. There was no difference!


It's also nice to know that it wasn't as gimped as I thought, so I'll still pick it up eventually. Yeah I liked Manhunt, whatchyagunnado?

I don't know how this was supposed to tone down the gore or whatever the hell they were trying to do, but I do agree that it inadvertantly toned up the scary factor. It's a common horror movie tactic anyway. You don't have to see the knife go in to fear the knife going in. It worked for Psycho.

But yeah, this was like a .05% change if that.

looks far more violent with the filters, reminds me of Fist of the North Star when the colours would go crazy every time there was graphic violence, I think the sudden jarring visuals compliment the violence better... if you're into that sort of thing.

Rockstar seem to have lucked out, better violence and tons of free press.

This reminds me of the black and white in the restaurant scene from Kill Bill: Vol 1. They had to show that part of the film in black and white to appease the censors and keep an R rating, but the content was no different.

Those censored kills are from the PS2 version. The PS2 version, while still stupid, is much better than the Wii version, as far as censorship goes. The Wii version apparently has these horrible blurs for the kills, making hard to see what's even going on.

Yep, I did it, I watched it, and now I feel sick...

but if the graphics were better than say... lego men I'd be even more sick...

Well shit, thanks for the heads up. My interest is back down to 40%. Maybe I'll play a used PS2 copy in a year.

the kills are just as bad in the original manhunt. This is hillarious. It's like the esrb just "caught on" for public image

Great...I'm being sent the PS2 version for review...looks like crap already. Hooray.

You guys linked to the wrong video!
FAIL!

Whoopie, the graphix sure suck balls in both verisions.

Haha, all the sadists who were happy in the pants for this game must be crying :(

Censored, uncut, this game still looks like crap.

The crazy filter effects mean you are going more crazy(the more you kill you crazier you get) So basically, they are adding more impact to it.

And, you know, crazy filter effects.

Actually, this is a pretty good example of how the ESRB can be reasonable, and might have a good point(even if giving the game an AO in the first place was a mistake)

It's never really the gore that seems to be the problem(I mean, look at movies. Grindhouse "only" got an R rating) It's the "carelessness" that they are preformed with. "yeah, he's dead, what's to it?" Add more impact in game, and they expect to get more impact out of the game(if you go crazy, you'll see the severity of your actions).

They do have a point in the games to movies comparison. The actions in a movie are preformed by a character, if this were a movie, the word "antihero" would definitely be thrown around a lot. In a game, regardless of what you are playing, YOU are the hero, even if you are just pressing buttons, YOU'RE doing it.

As a final example to what I mean, I would like to point out that although the movie Grindhouse got an "R" the movie The Aristocrats got an NC-17(or "X" or whatever they call it). There is no nudity, graphic violence or gore. Just a joke, and some commentary by a lot of comedians. However, it's the contents of the joke and how easily the comedians tell it that got it the rating(the words "jesus", "sodomy", and "blood" are perfectly fine alone, it's the combination that evokes the disturbing thoughts)

So you see, the ESRB doesn't want less gore or killing, that's fine, just label it M. What they do want is to show some responsibility to your actions, or at least some sort of reaction(with the possible exception of that gleeful smirk...).

Now, if they just used these ideas CORRECTLY, and stop being so vague about the ratings(the MPAA is much worse in this shady sort of way) what they have to do is draw a clear line of what gets you an M rating, and what gets an AO(and why Lost Planet got a T, and Burnout got an E10. Two games with many careless deaths, while Rainbow Six and Dead Rising got an M. Two games where you kill zombies and terrorists. Speaking of which Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Dead Rising would be a great game.) If a game developer thinks it's unfair, they file some sort of complaint(and the rule amended), or an exception can be made for said game(if there is enough reason, of course).

FYI its $30 for PS2 & PSP and $40 for the Wii

Is it just me, or does it seem like the retail clips are more violent from the 0:45 point onward? The filters make it look like a surveillance camera or an old horror movie, the uncut versions reveal they're just average ps2 Rockstar-style characters. Either way, still going to pass on this one.

That's just bizarre, how flashing B&W could lower the content rating from AO to M. Color-blind peeps won't notice a damned bit of difference. Just draws more attention to it, really.

After actually seeing footage from the game, I dunno what the big deal is. It doesn't seem really all that graphic or horrible or gory, certainly not compared to things like the Saw movies. Frankly this game looks really tame in comparison to some parts of Resident Evil 4 (I watched my husband play it and losing to one of the villagers with chainsaws was like the worst thing I have ever seen) and that game was excellent.

I guess that means whenever Snake strangles someone in MGS it needs to be blurred out. The Punisher was a more violent game than this.

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Buffer now, play later.

I think I've given up on these comment pages. I can't take hearing about graphics anymore. We all have eyes and can judge for ourselves and don't need to hear it every other post, it's a complete waste of space.

Seriously? They all look very similar and for every single execution you saw I could probably name five entire movies worse than that.

I feel like the motion controls of the wii had something to do with the AO rating.

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This game really rox, i love it, not so ugly :)

The wii version sucks that it's censored but if it wasn't it would still be hard enough to see what's going on since you have to pretty much stare at an icon to know what's the next move the whole time you're executing someone, thus taking your view away from the real scene.

the censorship is retarded, do you have to get a gameshark or codebreaker or whatever it's called to bypass it?