Does the system of computer game ratings need to be overhauled?

[AB Asks]

Controversial game Manhunt 2 has been given an 18 ceetificate despite many calls for it to be banned. Is it time that a review of the games classification system took place? Or is it a case of a few peopled causing a lot of fuss over nothing?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7302407. stm

[fo3nix]

Banning more things >> more of a nanny state.

Let us do what we want to do, and simply make illegal and ban horrible acts such as child porn.

Anything else is fair game. 18 cert is fine.

Few people causing lot of fuss.

[rojash]

It seems to me that if the UK carries on in the direction that it's taken for the last few years, by 2020, they will have banned everything.

[Cockney_si]

I started a similar thread here a while ago.

It's a computer game and it's make believe.
You get more blood and gore on the lunchtime news, usually unedited when I'm trying to eat a sandwich.

[ACtheTROLL]

agree with fo3 .... and I'll kill any bast**d who says different!

I don't realy know the true answer ... perhaps if people took more interest in each other and their kids it wouldn't be a problem ... but people start to think odd things when they are alone ... or in small groups ....

most extremists get extreme because their (small band) of peers validate their actions (see ww2!).

don't like the idea of censorship either ... for every idiot there are many more with sense.