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<blockquote data-quote="gamer" data-source="post: 3199"><img src="http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/06/Man190.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Writer Seth Schiesel from the New York Times recently wrote an article about <a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/manhunt/" target="_blank">Manhunt</a> 2 which he was actually able to play the original version of the game at Take-Two&#039;s Manhattan office for three hours last Friday night. Unlike the <a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/hands_on/manhunt-2-impressions-271390.php" target="_blank">recently posted impressions</a> of the banned game, Schiesel had a different angle to wanting to try the game.&nbsp; Strauss Zelnick at Take-Two had explained to him:This is still animation. It&#039;s not photo-realistic. It&#039;s not live action. And compared to an R-rated movie, which is intended for 17 and above, like &#039;Saw&#039; or &#039;Hostel,&#039; it&#039;s actually pretty tame. But you make your own conclusions when you play the game.After playing the game, the NYT writer commented that, &quot;(He) did not find Manhunt 2 particularly frightening or sickening, more like a violent interactive cartoon&quot;, but he did completely agree with the game being rated as Adults Only. Then Schiesel took Zelnick&#039;s advice by comparing it to Hostel and Saw II which the writer rented. The outcome? In Schiesel&#039;s words:Banning the original version of Manhunt 2 may be a good way to demonstrate that the industry can police itself. Side-by-side, though, <a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/movies/" target="_blank">movies</a> seem to be way ahead of games in delivering top-notch gore.Couldn&#039;t have said it any better myself. Kim Phu<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/arts/25manh.html?_r=2&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1182943557-SUR8GWq9peTdMByxwagGVQ&amp;oref=slogin" target="_blank">Gore Galore but a Violent Game Can&#039;t Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies</a> [NYT]<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?a=7pnMGP" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?i=7pnMGP" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/compare-and-contrast./nyt-compares-manhunt-2-to-horror-flicks-272669.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamer, post: 3199"] [IMG]http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/06/Man190.jpg[/IMG]Writer Seth Schiesel from the New York Times recently wrote an article about [URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/manhunt/"]Manhunt[/URL] 2 which he was actually able to play the original version of the game at Take-Two's Manhattan office for three hours last Friday night. Unlike the [URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/hands_on/manhunt-2-impressions-271390.php"]recently posted impressions[/URL] of the banned game, Schiesel had a different angle to wanting to try the game. Strauss Zelnick at Take-Two had explained to him: [INDENT]This is still animation. It's not photo-realistic. It's not live action. And compared to an R-rated movie, which is intended for 17 and above, like 'Saw' or 'Hostel,' it's actually pretty tame. But you make your own conclusions when you play the game.[/INDENT]After playing the game, the NYT writer commented that, "(He) did not find Manhunt 2 particularly frightening or sickening, more like a violent interactive cartoon", but he did completely agree with the game being rated as Adults Only. Then Schiesel took Zelnick's advice by comparing it to Hostel and Saw II which the writer rented. The outcome? In Schiesel's words: [INDENT]Banning the original version of Manhunt 2 may be a good way to demonstrate that the industry can police itself. Side-by-side, though, [URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/movies/"]movies[/URL] seem to be way ahead of games in delivering top-notch gore.[/INDENT]Couldn't have said it any better myself. Kim Phu [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/arts/25manh.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1182943557-SUR8GWq9peTdMByxwagGVQ&oref=slogin"]Gore Galore but a Violent Game Can't Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies[/URL] [NYT] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?a=7pnMGP"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?i=7pnMGP[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://kotaku.com/gaming/compare-and-contrast./nyt-compares-manhunt-2-to-horror-flicks-272669.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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