Rockstar never really have it easy, and earlier last year the controversy that just can't seem to leave them alone arose once again in the face of their attempted release of Manhunt 2 for Wii and PS2 in the UK. The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) refused to rate the game citing its "unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone" as one of the key reasons it would be denied a rating.

When you've poured some serious blood, sweat and tears into your artform, however, you don't just roll over and die. And so Rockstar took the matter to the courts and despite a lengthy battle, won the right to release the game over the last few days with a majority rules vote (are we paying attention Australian Government?).

For the full skinny on just how this breakthrough for Rockstar came about, check out original source GamaSutra.Where this leaves this game in terms of an Aussie release remains to be seen, but you can bet we're one step closer to at least trying, right Rockstar?

On hearing the verdict, the BBFC vowed to take the issue to the High Court, where a judge ruled in the BBFC’s favor by declaring that the VAC’s decision was “a clear error of law” in terms of assessing the question of harm.

They lost the court case, but the VAC ignored the court ruling, not sure how that works though.

last edited by Bah at 16:58:22 17/Mar/08

Trog - if worst comes to worst, can't we just order UK copies & run them via a bootloader?

I'll be damned if I can't play Manhunt 2 on my wii...

Trog

Why are you asking trog this?

That's what we need to get great game's like SOF 3, games that their too worried about because they think that a kid will go postal on playing the game

wrong. sof3 is a s*** game. there is nothing great about it... at all... i like to pretend it got baned purely for being s***.

Why are you asking trog this?

'cause I'm stupid (thanks Steve).