Violent video game ban may be reviewed, says film censor

THE film censor said yesterday that he was open toreviewing the ban on aviolent video game after restrictions were lifted on its sale in the US.

Manhunt 2 became the first computer game to be banned from sale earlier this year after the Irish Film Censor’s Office found it featured “gross, unrelenting and gratuitous violence”.

Players act as a scientist with amnesia who escapes from an asylum and then goes on a bloody killing spree.