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William Wheatley
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----- Original Message -----
From: Angel Stewart
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: [gaming] Manhunt pulled from shelves after game blamed for murder.
"In UK games news, Rockstar's Manhunt has been in most of the press today linked
with the murder of a 14 year old boy. A number of national papers even featured
it on the front page.
More information can be found at these URLs.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=312
008&in_page_id=1770"Daily Mail and HYPERLINK
"http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14472336%26method=full%26sitei
d=50143%26headline=boy%2d%2d14%2d%2din%2dvideo%2dgame%2dcopycat%2dmurder-name_pa
ge.html"The Mirror
Most major retailers, including GAME (formerly EB), have withdrawn this title
from sale."
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My response was:
"To those that think Manhunt is too sick and should be banned, and those stores
that pulled the games fromthe shelves.
Did they also pull Kill Bill Volume 1 or 2 from the shelves?
How about Saving Private Ryan?
Trainspotting?
Natural Born Killers?
All these shows had a very high level of extremely graphic violence, yet they
are seen for what they are. They are works of art via the medium of film.And it
is accepted that children are NOT supposed to view them.
In the same way,games are artistic _expression_ via the medium of the video game.
Anyone that plays Manhunt can see its artistic qualities..the grainy video, the
high production values on the voice acting of the narrator, the tension that
builds as you flit from shadow to shadow.
Video Games are art. And the are becoming more and more appreciably so as time
progresses. The stories are getting deeper, and developers are paying more
attention to voice acting, storylines, and character development. It's what sets
Call of Duty apart from all the other WWII games before it...the scripted
scenes, the 'feeling' for the characters around you. That is art, and so is
Manhunt.
And there are some games that children are NOT supposed to play.
one can argue till one is blue that they do not LIKE Manhunt, and that is one's
freedom of choice, but I think it is fundamentally wrong to seek to ban a work
of art because children who should not be interacting choose to do so and are
allowed to do so.Do not limit my freedom of Adult choice because a child is
given the freedom to watch what I watch, listen to what I listen to and indulge
in what only an adult should indulge. This opens the floodgates to ban all
manner of material which could possibly be offensive or harmful to a child from
public space.And no it isn't taking things to an extreme, if one does not follow
through on such an action logically, one is admitting that games are being
unfairly singled out for persecution.
I wonder what would happen one day if someone nailed a woman to a cross after
reading the bible. "
-Gel
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