A year after Manhunt 2 was released in North America, it’s finally making its way to the U.K., though even more censored than in America. The game originally got an AO rating in North America and was denied a rating at all in the U.K.. After censoring some of the more violent scenes (apparently by adding seizure-inducing special effects that caused the player’s eyes to bleed, which is actually much more disturbing than badly-animated polygonal decapitations) the game managed to snag an M rating in North America, but was still denied a rating by the BBFC. Then some other stuff happened.

Anyway, the game eventually launched in North America to a resounding “meh.” That didn’t stop Rockstar, though. Oh my, no. They’ve managed to get a “heavily reworked” version of the game a BBFC rating, god bless ‘em. I don’t know how they could make the violence any less visible. Unless whenever you try to castrate someone with a sickle, your Wii actually ejects the disc so forcefully it flies out and hits you in the face, permanently blinding you. Which, again, seems a lot worse than actually seeing the castration in the first place.

IGN

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