Naked violence back
GAME MAKER Take-Two's attempt to censor its violent Manhunt 2 game to get a Entertainment Software Rating Board 'mature' rating has come unstuck.
The censored version of the game, made by Rockstar Games, was released with the lower rating but still had smudged violent content on the disk.
Now a team of hackers have restored most of the banned content in all its genital multilating glory.
Now it seems like they have created another controversy similar to the one where they had a hidden sex scene in their game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. "
The hackers defeated that blurring on the version of the game for Sony's PlayStation Portable. So far they have not hacked the game for the PS2 or the Nintendo Wii.
Fortunately for Take-Two, the hack does not roll back all the changes that enabled the game to qualify for the "Mature" rating. It also requires some technical expertise and a hacked PSP unit.
That has not stopped 'family protection groups' in the US calling for the game to be banned until the mess is sorted out.
Since the Grand Theft Auto incident, the ratings board has demanded that publishers submit even hidden content for review.
Board spokesman Eliot Mizrachi told Fox News that he is aware of the hacking issue and is looking into it.
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