Tuesday 26 April 2011

Representation of Violence

Manhunt 2

Content: Manhunt is a game in which you play a mentally unstable character haunted by a crazed assassin that is the result of a mind control experiment gone wrong, you kill and murder your way through several levels as a more and more complicated story is revealed.
     
Structure: Its a level based linear style story in which you are given a task which you must follow and complete before being allowed to progress further.


Target Audience: 18+ the game was first banned from release by Take 2 in the UK, Ireland and several other countries but was given a rated of AO in the USA and released as uncensored product. It was then revised for the Mature rating and after several parts of the game were censored it was allowed for release in the UK and other countries where it had been previously banned.

Issues: The release of Manhunt 2 was met with large levels of controversy as in its first release it contained extremely high levels of graphic killing, an uses a system in which it encourages the player to try and kill enemies and the most violent and over the top ways possible ranking them over the speed and amount of violence that they employed over the level.

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