Kotaku
In an interview with Condemned: Bloodshot producer, Constantine Hantzopoulos, Hantzopoulos admits that the ESRB 'AO' rating on Manhunt 2 has caused Sega to censor their content. More from the man himself:
I worked on [Indigo Prophecy]and had to cut the sex scenes out of the game for the US...It sucked because I don't believe in that, right. But you've got to do what you've got to do. We're working closely with the ESRB to make sure everything goes through okay but there's stuff we've cut already. There were things we were doing that even I couldn't believe we were going to those places....An example of what we cut would be putting someone's head in a vice. That was too much, you know.Having not conducted the interview myself, it's difficult to read Hantzopoulos' reaction here. On one hand he's against cutting content, while on the other, he feels that his own game might have gone too far. Is he drinking the Kool-Aid, or just trying to kiss up to the ESRB? Either way, the ESRB has flexed their muscles, and developers are proceeding with caution.
Condemned 2 toned down [CVG]
