Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Manhunt 2, uncensored

Any of you remember the great Manhunt 2 scandal?

I was perusing GamesRadar's wonderful website earlier this evening when I came across this little gem. That's right, view 'em and weep--here's all of Manhunt 2's gory, gory, gory kill videos in all their uncensored, uh, mediocrity. Be warned--this video is extremely graphic and violent (duh) and is also guilty of not aging well, despite only being a year old.

So, now you can take solace in the fact that you're allowed to see what the ESRB so many gamers were so horribly cheated out of last year, or cry because of how silly and stupid most of it looks now, how much of an uproar people were thrown into over its existence, and how Rockstar could have easily just cut a few of these scenes and the game would have been fine. It's up to you.








Harry Potter gets watered down











Via MTV:

“Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” seems to be on a crash course to disappointing the Harry Potter fanbase. First, there were usual rumblings about changes to the story and characters, and then came the awful decision to delay “Half-Blood Prince by more than a year.

Now, Rope of Silicon reveals that the movie has finally been given the rating by the MPAA — and it has earned a rather soft rating of PG. As fans know, the books continue to grow darker as Voldemort’s power grows, and there are scenes of intense violence in “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince."



I think my geeky/creepy fandom of the Harry Potter series has increased in direct proportion to the "darkness" of J.K. Rowling's content. Therefore, it's really disappointing to see what could have been one of the most brutal and disturbing films of the series get stripped of its potential to revel in the emotion gray spaces in which it (impressively) started to venture.

Of course these predictions could prove to be horribly off the mark but the fact that the studio behind this film would even shoot for a PG rating puts me on edge.

Sigh. If this is in any way due to the influence of "Twilight" I am going to launch an official war on the tweens/lonely older women of America.