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Manhunt Delivers Stealthy Shock For Rockstar
Thanks to U.S. Playstation Magazine for its review of Rockstar North's ultraviolent PS2 stealth action title Manhunt, which it rates as "a solidly constructed third-person affair." The reviewer also explains the most unique feature: "As an interesting gimmick, Manhunt supports the USB headset. With the headset, the Director's comments [as voiced by Brian Cox] are heard only through the earpiece." GameSpot also largely rates the title positively, approving of the "tension and grim satisfaction" in the stealth action gameplay, but highlighting the ways the "game unflinchingly depicts intense graphic violence" as the Director "captures on video the bloody executions" carried out by your in-game character. This leads Playstation Magazine to question the ESRB rating system, suggesting that if Manhunt "didn't merit an AO rating, then I don't know what will", while IGN PS2 simply says, with regard to the gore: "No videogames to date have gone as far."
When in college, I attended more than a few discussions by various women's groups. The consensus was that any male-female sexual intercourse was violent (actually, their term was 'rape').
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
The origninal post was making a dinstinction between sex and violence. I thought it was a logical moment to bring up his experiences, and entirely appropriate. Whether the line of commentary was "interesting" or not, it certainly didn't deserve an abusive use of moderation access to beat it down.