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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Kurt Angle on December 16, 2003, 12:49:57 PM
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December 12, 2003 - After Australia banned Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (only to have them re-coded and brought back to retail), Rockstar\'s newest and even more violent game, Manhunt, was officially banned from retail stores in New Zealand.
New Zealand\'s Office of Film and Literature Classification\'s report says the game depicts horror cruelty, crime and violence in such a way that this "gruesome" game is likely to be "injurious to the public good."
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/446/446005p1.html
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Bah, too bad for New Zealanders.. but I suspect the game will be even more popular thanks to this.
Hmm, maybe I should try and smuggle a car full of Manhunt games and sell them for $100 each. :)
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Communists
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Click and enjoy!
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-78137/midi/inter_1.mid
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Oh well, its only New Zealand...
Hmm, its doubtfull that they\'ll get a re-coded version because they get the Australian versions over there I think.
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funny avatar kurt! :laughing: you mean saddam\'s been santa all these years?
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lol.. Sucks to be in NZ. Even the GTA3 recode can be easily passed. Just have you OS region code set to USA, and wella. Your in rooting heaven. As for GTA:VC I got the version that was unaltered. :)
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i didn\'t think VC was alterted for Australia, just #3. I know Manhunt in AUST at present is in its entirety, and I hope it stays that way.
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I thought Aussie and Kiwi were a bit more liberal than the US. Again, my perception of those two places are wrong. Except that part that they\'re upside down from my point of view. One jolt from mother Earth, all the Aussies and Kiwis will float off into space.
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how do u know where on the bottom, man has just decided we are.
maybe were on the top ;)
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Yes it is too bad for NZ but I was never interested in this game. Now if the started banning games like MGS i would be angry.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
i didn\'t think VC was alterted for Australia, just #3. I know Manhunt in AUST at present is in its entirety, and I hope it stays that way.
I heard they took out the private dancers in the stripclub,could be mistaken though.
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No, the only thing missing was the prostitute that you sleep with in #3 and then shoot her, it was like the 3 second FMV sequence, no gameplay was removed.
Aussie\'s and NZ\'ers are pretty liberal, pretty similar to the USA. I was however shocked when I first went to the USA at the things they were allowed to advertise on TV (like medical devices etc) at like 3 in the afternoon. I remember seeing an ad for a penis pump for men with erectile disfunction and I was like WTF, there is no way that would be allowed to be on Australian TV before 10 at night.
Anyway, Manhunt is a great game. I just wish Australia would intruduce an R18+ classification for games so that things like this wouldn\'t get banned. If retailers enforced ratings (and there were high penalities for retailers who didn\'t) then it would work.
Anyway, its easy for NZ\'ers to just import it from Australia if they really want it so I don\'t see how it makes a difference.
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"I remember seeing an ad for a penis pump for men with erectile disfunction and I was like WTF"
WTF channel were you watching? The USA is EXTREMELY conservative in commercials compared to Europe. I have never seen a penis pump commercial on any channel ever. Girls gone wild is about as bad as it gets for commercials in the US and that is no big whoop.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
No, the only thing missing was the prostitute that you sleep with in #3 and then shoot her, it was like the 3 second FMV sequence,..
Where was this? I can\'t remember anything like that in the game.
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Echo, it was such a small thing most people don\'t even know about it. Its like some small cut scene, totally stupid.
Vid, I dunno what channel, but it was in San Francisco, and it was like 3 in the afternoon and they were talking about a pump, it was like an infomercial or something.
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Originally posted by videoholic
"I remember seeing an ad for a penis pump for men with erectile disfunction and I was like WTF"
WTF channel were you watching? The USA is EXTREMELY conservative in commercials compared to Europe. I have never seen a penis pump commercial on any channel ever. Girls gone wild is about as bad as it gets for commercials in the US and that is no big whoop.
I\'ve seen commercials for Viagra and stuff like that. They don\'t say it out in the open though. Everything is hidden in words like "Viagra is for men who would like to feel manly again" or something like that. A young kid wouldn\'t know what the hell they were talking about unless they were older and had some kind of memory of it or something like that.
Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
No, the only thing missing was the prostitute that you sleep with in #3 and then shoot her, it was like the 3 second FMV sequence, no gameplay was removed.
I have to agree with everyone else. I never saw this in the game.
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The Enzyte or enzyme or whatever that penis enhancer thing is comercials are funny...
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Meet Bob.
He can pop a boner.
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Racer, they did alter gameplay in GT3. When your region is set to USA, you can pick up pros, screw them to regain health (only in hooded cars in remote areas) you lose money, but thats when you shot em and take it back.. Thats what they took out gameplay wise.
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So did they cut the hookers from GTA:VC also?
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In more interesting news:
Grass grows in green field.
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That aint grass : packs it into pipe :
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