This has been all over the papers for the past few days. I would have dismissed it, too, but the one point that interested me is that the police said it was "uncanny" how similar the weapon and the way of which he attacked his victim were to a weapon in the game and the way that you attack your victims in the game. I don't know about you, or how much you might trust the police version of "uncanny", but if they say that it was freakishly similar then I won't be so quick to reject that the game has influenced this guy in a bad way. He was 17 and had a game not meant for people under the age of 18, for a start, but even at 17 you should be smart enough to know that the game shouldn't be replicated (let alone smart enough to know not to kill someone). This game was apparently a favourite of his. You have to draw the line somewhere, and I think that Manhunt is taking things too far. Gaining points for a more gruesome death of an innocent is awful. They may as well make a game where you have to organise a terrorist attack, and fly a plane into a building. Touchy subject? Maybe, but more people would find that straight out gruesome murder of innocents has affected their life than terrorist attacks done via planes. It's disgusting and games like this shouldn't be made in the first place. I think they should be banned regardless out of pure bad taste.
