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...and yes, we're as sick of reporting it as much as you are sick of hearing it, and as sick as Take Two are of rejecting it, as their latest press release so clearly indicates.



Asked yesterday where Rockstar will be heading now that release of the long awaited Grand Theft Auto IV is drawing near, company execs let lose a rather curious little of information.



Manhunt 2 is offically the most controversial game in video game history. In June 2007 it was banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) due to its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone. It is now at the centre of a continous legal row that is defini...



A few days ago, the UK High Court decided that the Video Appeals Committee, which had recently granted the game an 18-certificate release in the country, must reconsider its decision.



Manhunt 2 has constantly been refused a rating in the UK by the British Board of Film Classification, effectively banning it from release, by Rockstar are still determined to see it hit UK store shelves. Thanks to the common sense of the Video Appeals Committee, it might actually happen this time.



It looks like the violence and gore weren't the only things cut from Manhunt 2; according to former employee of the now defunct Rockstar Vienna, Jurie Horneman, in his blog, the work of his co-workers on the game were left on the editing table as well, with more than 55 names missing from the credits in the retail version of the game.



Manhunt 2, the upcoming sequel up to a title that has already received more than its fair share of controversy, may see its release in the UK snuffed out altogether, thanks to the country's visual entertainment censors' (BBFC) refusal to give the title a legal rating.

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