"There is a warning about a new video game that will soon hit store shelves," starts the local TV news report about Rockstar Games' upcoming Manhunt 2, delivered in a typically sermonizing TV anchor tenor, as a montage of disturbing images from the game plays in the background. "Players simulate various ways of murder from strangulation to stabbings with their controllers."
Video game watchdogs have called Rockstar Games' bloody Manhunt 2 (pictured above) a "murder training device." Click to see more images from the controversial game.
Every generation of popular culture needs a boogeyman, and like dime-store novels, comic books and horror films, video games are public enemy number-one for many parents, politicians and pundits. According to them, games desensitize children and turn them into unfeeling killing machines. Controversial anti-game attorney Jack Thompson has called violent games "murder simulators," and has attributed (often without evidence) many cases of school violence to gamers acting out what they see on screen.
Reader Comments (290)
no u didnt hit a button i dont live anywhere near my parents and have supported myself for quite a long time. its just sad that is your image of kids these days. this generation sucks more than any that has ever lived. everything is handed to the youth and no one thinks. it's quite sad
wow, to those people who lose there lives and wives, sorry, but thats like those wow nuts, if they learned to limit themselves, and go to work then that might not have happened
i'm out have fun with the video games, love peace and hate grease
aww did i push a button?
brat kid you typed lmao and your what an adult
also that kid that killed his siter was mentally challenged too
not all kids that play video games are always inside my little brother plays my xbox way more than me and plays more sports than me so what is that saying video games are just soething to do while inside instead of watching tv but a game like this does not make kids want to kill ay all i never ever heard of a kid wanting to go shoot up his school because he was playing man hunt 2 or go car jack some one because they where playin grand theft auto 3 but as for that kid that killed his sister thats just playing around even if he did not watch wrestling on tv he may just have been playing football with her
no i was actually just reading some news and came across this seemed like a fun thing to do for awhile
lmao, it's my job. go out in the driveway and lay behind your parents car, they are going shopping. and what? you can give it out but not take it? typical little brat kid.
I have known Gamer;s who have lost their Wives &lives due to their fasination with this "make-belive" world that so many of you live in. If you want the "full max" experiance, I know some army recuriters that would love to meet you. DO YOU HAVE THE GUT'S ?