AO Rating on Manhunt 2, Nintendo says "no thanks"

Zucas wrote: Actually they didn’t say that. Here is what they actually said and why they banned it in the UK:

Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing. There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.

That is no reason to ban a game. Not when there are worse movies there that are shown in every theater. And that doesn’t sound like anything that would get an AO rating.