In the midst of the Manhunt 2 rating fiasco, Take-Two management questioned the point of having an "adults only" rating when it effectively bars a console game from release.
During a conference call today, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said that the firm is "evaluating its options" regarding the release of the "adults only" rated Manhunt 2.
"We're determined to bring Manhunt 2 to the consumers for which it was intended, and to do so in a responsible fashion," he stated.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board recently gave the game an "AO" rating because of intense violence. Many large retailers don't carry games with an AO rating, and console manufacturers don't allow such rated games on their machines.
The 2000s was a great decade for a lot of brilliant video games. Here are the ten best games of the 2000s that you may not have played.
You know usually when someone says "you may have missed" it's games that were lesser known, hidden gems, underrated games. These are all super high profile games that sold extremely well.
You know the 2000s is 20 years ago too? Maybe, just maybe this wasn’t an article targeted to 30+ gamers? Still says at the very beginning of the title “THE BEST GAMES you may have missed”. Regardless of how well they sold there’s tons of gamers who haven’t touched these older well known games lol.
It's games you "may have missed", insinuating you were around and gaming in the 2000's and were there to miss them. If it was aimed at everyone else then they missed literally everything, not just the top games.
The original commenter is right, this is a badly written article at best pointless at worst.
Besides only being able to miss it if you were around during that time..if your point stands then this is a horrible list. Tons of better games people may have missed
I would like the original max payne remade in a new engine with ray tracing. 😊
Oh yeah thanks for reminding me I totally forgot they were doing it. Also what the hell happened to Kingpin: Reloaded? On Steam coming soon and nohting from the dev.
Yeah, I was just going to say. It's interesting seeing them back behind the series. Max Payne 3 was amazing, but then Rockstar just sat on the IP.
Well, they sit on virtually anything that isn't GTA and Red Dead now.
What is this list? These are all hugely popular games. I was expecting games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Advent Rising, Arx Fatalis, etc.
the title didn’t say lesser known titles from the 2000s. This is 20 years ago now lol. Big assumption this list was made for older gamers.
I've only played 3 on that list. Part of me feels bad about how little I used all the consoles I've owned as a kid. One bright side is, there's over 30 years of games to experience for the first time.
GTA Underground combines the San Andreas, Liberty City, Vice City, Manhunt I/II, Bullworth, and custom maps into one big map.
Who was that guy recently who said Rockstar dont want to do just meaningless ports?
Cos something like this would be cool if you combine 3, SA and VC maps. Change characters a la GTAV style. Insert some quests in each game to tie in the connection between the three players and have post endgame content of all three games with more missions/heists.
Just a thought.
I would be all for it. Sick of playing a gangster, switch to GTA3 playing as a Mob member or Vercetti.
I've played a few mods like this way back when the only two cities were liberty and vice the fact the old 3d games still have active modding communitys shows that there's still a huge pull to these classics I hope rockstar comes through with proper remakes not just that really bad HD San Andreas and mobile anniversary edition of vc and 3
GI: "Over the past two decades, Rockstar Games has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the games industry. Rising up from quirky Scotland-based developers with a taste for pulp and crime fiction, Rockstar evolved radically, shifting into innovators and provocateurs, creating some of the industry's most influential and blockbuster titles. In the lead up to the eagerly anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2, we came together as a staff to rank every single game that Rockstar developed (this means we excluded published titles like L.A. Noire and Smuggler's Run). From the humble top-down beginnings of Grand Theft Auto to the blood-soaked streets of Manhunt and the beautiful jaw-dropping vistas of Red Dead Redemption, you’ll find every single title put in its proper place in terms of influence, importance of innovation, and just plain fun."
Ranking games on best graphics and best game play and best soundtrack is one thing, but I rank them in terms of when they came out and how they made me feel at the time. For me GTAIII is the best GTA game of all time. Because of how I felt while playing it in 2001/2002. It gave me the most fun, wow factor and joy I can remember of all the games. There's nothing like your first.
hard to argue that, orion - #3 was awesome. but for me, nothing beats vice city - that map was set up so well and the soundtrack/radio banter was amazing.
for me, VC is tied with RDR1 for best rockstar game - both gave me all the things you describe. of course, RDR2 hits this week and i'm prepared to be gobsmacked once again.
The radio banter was amazing. I've never put down my controller to listen to a game for 30 minutes, except for in Vice City.
23. Wild Metal
22. Midnight Club: Street Racing
21. Manhunt 2
20. Rockstar Presents Table Tennis
19. Midnight Club II
18. Grand Theft Auto
17. Red Dead Revolver
16. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
15. Grand Theft Auto 2
14. Midnight Club: Los Angeles
13. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
12. Midnight Club III
11. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
10. The Warriors
9. Max Payne 3
8. Manhunt
7. Grand Theft Auto IV
6. Bully
5. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
4. Grand Theft Auto III
3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2. Red Dead Redemption
1. Grand Theft Auto V
“In that instance, one has to ask oneself what’s the purpose of a rating if it in fact means that a title cannot be released?" Nice quote from Rockstar Games, but it will remain a rhetorical question until the issue is address!!!! Rockstar want to make this game for gamers as it was original intended, so if you gamers want this game unedited sign this online petition which already has over 4000 people who signed it.
http://www.petitiononline.c...
They are correct, in their qoute. what is the point of a rating that cant and wont be allowed. AO basically means banishment. Which is stupid and pointless for non mandatory product. the Same with theaters, Theaters can play unrated movies, but many wont. You can still find screesn to play them then.
but consoles wont let AO games play on their machines.
Like they said, the retailers are doing right... I pikced up two games today and the guy behind the counter said i can still pre-order it, cause in the end it will be knowcked down to M. but i have to be 18 to pre-order it, but once it comes out only 17 to buy it.
honestly, and this question has been raised before on this site, whats one year. 17 and 18? i understand 18 and 21. 17 and 21 makes sense. but 18 and 17.
But in the end, I think this hurts the Gaming World. If compaines, Manufactorers, retailers and Gamers of all ages, want the VideoGame personae to be taken seriously, and not to be viewed as a Childs market. This game needs to be released as AO. Let the gamer figure out how to buy it, If retailers dont want to TopShelf it, or be steadfast in checking ID. but as the middleman between developers/publishers, and consumers, that is their right, not to carry it.
But there are thousands of thousands of mature over the age of 18 gamers, that deserve this game and would buy it, with the AO.
While AO rating may effectively mean banishment, it has no legal bearing, right? Isn't the ESRB a voluntary system? In that case, the only banishment that happens is the market itself banishing the game. Sure, my definition of "market" includes console manufacturers and retailers, but those groups certainly are not government regulators - they are market forces.
If Take2 doesn't like being "banished" for creating their AO-rated Manhunt 2, then they should look in the mirror. Alternatively, they could blame the secondary forces for making their lives difficult: console makers and retailers. But since those are their customers, they don't want to point the finger at them. So the easy whipping-boy remains the ESRB. Wah.
Console makers and retailers are the primary ones who are creating the "banished" status for AO games. If Take 2 and the "mature" gamers out there really believe what they are selling about "games being art" and "taking the gaming medium seriously by not being seen as for children" then I recommend selling it to the console makers and retailers. But we all know those folks aren't buying.