Manhunt

stu · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 18.40

Violent, yes, a good game, yes, but you really have to be a right backward sod to go and kill someone after playing it

These reports on ITN saying they are taking the game off the shelves is just stupid - why spoil everyone elses fun for the sake of some mentally disturbed games player!

Sput · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 18.49

My guess is that the Dixons group are just taking it off the shelves for while so they appear to be looking out for the consumer. A PR master stroke if you ask me! Plus they get a bit of free publicity!

Pete · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 18.49

Exactly, if you are mental enough to go and kill someone you can get your inspiration from ballet. It's typical ITV / Daily Mail scaremongering that does no one any good.

Neil Jones · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 19.23

Hymagumba wrote:Exactly, if you are mental enough to go and kill someone you can get your inspiration from ballet. It's typical ITV / Daily Mail scaremongering that does no one any good.

Indeed, let's go and ban Shakespeare because of Romeo and Juliet. It is a tragedy in the making, allowing kids to read this in case they get ideas about kililng themselves. </sarcasm> :roll:

stu · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 19.35

Another thing that annoyed me is that this game has been out since last year, and it's took till now for the media to point it's PC hand and moan

cat · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 20.38

I saw it and thought that actually I'd like to go out and buy it. It looks fun.

So clearly I should be committed.

Nintendo have to be the most child-friendly of all games manufacturers. I don't think a drop of blood has been spilled by a child playing a Nintendo. I have always had one of their various incarnations, and I have grown up as pure as a daisy.

nwtv2003 · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 21.34

I saw that on the ITV News and what crap it was! I feel sorry for the poor guy that got killed and his family, but it was one person's stupid fault, he shouldn't have been allowed the game anyway as he was 14 and the game was rated 18!

Though I think I've seen worse games than that, that have caused far less contreversy.

It's not for kids!

Though as someone said it's a great day for the Daily Mail.

Neil Jones · Thu 29 Jul, 2004 22.50

nwtv2003 wrote:I saw that on the ITV News and what crap it was! I feel sorry for the poor guy that got killed and his family, but it was one person's stupid fault, he shouldn't have been allowed the game anyway as he was 14 and the game was rated 18!

Yes but I think you'll find that although it had an 18 certificate to buy it, there's no way to stop anybody lending it to a minor. Same with films; the 18 certificate means it can't be sold to under 18s but they've no way of stopping you giving that film to a 12yr-old. Actually this argument extends to quite a lot of things in life where the buck stops at the adult and he/she would then be irresponsible to give it to a minor. Such as this game.

cat · Fri 30 Jul, 2004 10.22

And you can just buy it off Amazon if you are 16 and are therefore at the legal age to obtain a debit card.

Cheese Head · Fri 30 Jul, 2004 10.43

It does sound quite immature, but you must be extremely stupid to influenced by a game.

Neil Jones · Fri 30 Jul, 2004 11.32

c@t wrote:And you can just buy it off Amazon if you are 16 and are therefore at the legal age to obtain a debit card.

Actually, according to this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3928261.stm ("An investigation co-ordinated by children's and gambling charities has exposed how easy it is for under-18s to gamble online."), it says:

debit cards which you can have from the age of 11

And as Amazon accepts Switch and Solo, the latter of which the correspondent in that news has and she's 16, then short of upping this age limitation up to 18, there's not a lot Amazon or other online retailers can do about it.