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Manhunt will continue in the tradition of world-class gameplay, incredible production values, and sardonic sense of humor that has become synonymous with Rockstar North. Details surrounding the game remain shrouded in secrecy. To date, Rockstar ...
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One of the sites yours truly respects and therefor visits regularly is Gamesindustry.biz - a website that focuses on the business-side of the games industry (hence it's name ;) ). Editor Rob Fahey has written an editorial that carries the title:
He does a brief comparison of Manhunt being like a snuff movie.
I'd like to broaden his movie comparison and ask the same question: aren't there a lot of violent movies too, were the plot is not much more an excuse to kill and maim ? Forgive me that I do not know any examples or titles**, as they are not my genre of movies, although I have seen a couple when I was way younger :)
This question then brings me to a 'counter-question': why should the developers cut down on the gore ? If there is an (adult) audience for it, then by all means, serve them!
I like to see a team of developers as a bunch of creative minds - and if they choose to "create" an horific, bloodsplattering, pointless violent game... then so be it. Nobody forces anyone to buy the game - not even peer pressure.
I guess what I'm really trying to say is:
FREEEEEDOM !!!
You can read Rob Faheys editorial right here.
* Yes, even the small movie that was spread over the internet where a blond girl sits, bound to a chair and gets her head blown away - it's (a good) fake.
** Perhaps Battle Royal is a good example ? I certainly enjoyed it :)
Do we really need games like Manhunt?
It is a nice read with a small summary of what has been going on the last couple of days. In the last three paragrafs, he then asks if it is necessary for the games industry to develop such violent games. He does a brief comparison of Manhunt being like a snuff movie.
Grand Theft Auto is the gaming equivalent of a crime movie; it's violent and explicit, but that violence exists in the context of genuinely good storytelling and gameplay. Manhunt, however, is more like a snuff movie. It's a title which delights in its own violence, which encourages players to commit more and more unpleasant murders, and which focuses its entire gameplay on causing pain and killing in-game characters - and in a gritty, realistic setting no less.
Now, I'm not going into the 'snuff movie' comparison -which all international criminal investigation organisations have formally said do not exist and that they are a so-called 'urban legend'*.I'd like to broaden his movie comparison and ask the same question: aren't there a lot of violent movies too, were the plot is not much more an excuse to kill and maim ? Forgive me that I do not know any examples or titles**, as they are not my genre of movies, although I have seen a couple when I was way younger :)
This question then brings me to a 'counter-question': why should the developers cut down on the gore ? If there is an (adult) audience for it, then by all means, serve them!
I like to see a team of developers as a bunch of creative minds - and if they choose to "create" an horific, bloodsplattering, pointless violent game... then so be it. Nobody forces anyone to buy the game - not even peer pressure.
I guess what I'm really trying to say is:
FREEEEEDOM !!!
You can read Rob Faheys editorial right here.
* Yes, even the small movie that was spread over the internet where a blond girl sits, bound to a chair and gets her head blown away - it's (a good) fake.
** Perhaps Battle Royal is a good example ? I certainly enjoyed it :)
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StormGuy85
DoubleD
For the record: I forgot to mention anywhere that I did not play Manhunt - I only saw ingame footage of it.
Enigma
BillieTurf
Zembla (old)
Guess I've got a two-sided opinion. Just don't like the automated unnuanced responses like the one above, there's no point in closing your eyes for the fact that the violence influences people, the question should be if the effect is positive or negative...
BTW, the games you describe can hardly be called violent.
MonkeyManUK
And lets really dig it in why we're here..Now dont get me wrong guys i love a good FPS who doesn't. But when particular Goverments fund software houses to create games that so obviously are there to make "SOFA-SOLDIERS" , or at least give half the playing population a clue how to exactly use a M16 , Hand grenade and so forth..Really is it a case of one rule for one and one for another..Bollux i say..Its the childs/adults upbringing that have the profound affect on that child/adults future and what they do. Thats it im calm now.. Also why are there no land mines in Barbies horse Adventure!!! Taitlers :-)
Phantom
BillieTurf
Speed
Enigma
Zembla (old)
You haven't? :o
No seriously though, there's just as much fuzz about horror/action movies as there is about horror/action games. We just don't find bout that because I guess we're busier with gaming than with the movie industry? :)
slyoldfox