I was wondering if any of these groups/people actually played this game? I spent most of my time in the game actually protecting the nerds from the jocks and greasers. There was nothing distasteful about this game.

If anything Rockstar should have promoted this as an anti-bullying game?

I agree with Mr Kennedy on this,
i played through the original game (with the irritating title Canis Canem Edit)
this game does not and never has encouraged bullying if anything the game discourages it, I wish all the anti gaming politicians and anti gaming groups actually played the games they protest against, granted manhunt 2 is a violent game but that is why it is marked 18, If we need to do something about games how about lets educate parents what the purpose of an Age Label is.

Far to many anti gaming groups still view games as a childs pass-time ignoring the fact that the majority of gamers are well into their 20's-40's. I say if people actually read the label before buying the game for their childtren then possibly just possibly we might have far less of these stupid complaints from anti gaming groups.

Another great thing would be if the papers stopped going on about worse case scenarios, in the case of manhunt 1 what happened to Stefan Pakeerah was wrong and also very sad, however no matter how much evidence there is to prove Waren Leblank(seeing as it was found in the Victims room not the killers and the only evidence we have the killer had ever played the game was the victims mother who would obviously be biassed) did not own the game and the fact both the killer and the victim shouldnt have had the game as they were both minors is always ignored by the hysterical media,Games dont kill people, People Kill People.

The Bottom Line?

How about we work harder on educating parents and children alike on what is acceptable and what is not and actually try enforce a ratings system to avoid stupid censorship and media hysteria over games taht frankly are there for people who are old enough and mature enough to play them Instead of just banning games and working ourselves up over the latest game that kills people then sitting back blindly while our govornment sends our friends and family off to die in a pointless war?

but to be fair....rockstar do bring it on themselves....far less people minded it being called canis canem edit (i dont know and cant be bothered to find out what it means) than bully....the name bully makes it sound bad to people who will never pick up a pad. I have played CCE and it was a cracking game...and like the poster says above...if anything, a ANTI-bullying game!

Just for your information Canis Canem Edit is latin for Dog Eat Dog. :P