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Source: Gamasutra
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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has announced that it has rejected Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2 and will not issue it with an age rating. This will make it illegal for the game to be supplied anywhere in the UK.

The game was submitted to the BBFC on both PlayStation 2 and Wii. There was no mention of the PSP version, but that too will presumably suffer the same fate. David Cooke, director of the BBFC made the following comments in a statement:

“Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games, modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board’s published Guidelines. In the case of Manhunt 2 this has not been possible. Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing. There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.”

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