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Rockstar may have had some spats with the ESRB (and everyone else) over Manhunt 2 and censorship, but now they are singing a happier tune...one with lyrics remarkably similar to "please, please still buy our game because it's not ruined." From Rockstar product development VP Jeronimo Barrera:
...we feel we kept the original vision and the content and we didn't neuter the game as people say we have...So what actual changes were made to the game to ditch the AO rating again?
As mentioned before, cut scenes have been blurred in the goriest of places. But the bigger change was the deletion of a kill score meter that was included in the original Manhunt, rewarding players for the most brutal of executions. Barrera feels the score meter helped the flow of the game and that the deletion of this feature was an "opportunity" generated by the ESRB edits, but we're left wondering if that's the entire story, and if not, why the ESRB would allow a feature one time around or not the other—and if "package deal" game editing is part of negotiations.
'Manhunt 2' Developer Finally Talks About Game, Ratings Controversy — Much As It Pains Him [mtv]
