The “Break it Down” Blog

Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back is Gory!

GameSpot has coverage on the new Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back, and word on the street is that it’s just as gory if not gorier than Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix which was probably on of the goriest war games ever made (e.g. shoot someone in the eye, see half their head blow off). A [...]

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Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 2

Continuing from Part 1 of Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More… As I mentioned this whole topic was initiated by an email from Noah Jacobs-Andresen that discussed a core point to the issue that I hadn’t considered before and one that I think made it much easier for me to think about this subject, and [...]

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Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 1

(Part 2 is here) We covered the whole Manhunt 2 debacle (getting an AO rating, and banned in the UK) a few months back and it was an interesting topic to cover. For those that don’t know, even though the UK flat out banned Manhunt 2, the “AO” rating it was given essentially makes it [...]

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