Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=166215

Looks like Manhunt 2 has succeeded at getting itself banned, even before it's released. We'll have to watch this one carefully and track developments!
I'll need to check up on our law and see if it is actually banned. But it certainly looks that way for the PS2 version anyway.

UPDATE: 'GAME', a popular UK games retailer, has removed Manhunt 2 from their site, and stopped accepting pre-orders. www.game.co.uk

This is a very very bad day for Take Two and Rockstar. Manhunt 2 just got rated AO. Most console manufactures will not let publishers publish AO games on their consoles.
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British mag, NGamer has gotten the World's Exclusive Manhunt 2 review. And guess what? It got a whopping 92% Subscribers to the mag will have recieved their copy by now, otherwise, you can expect to see Issue 12 on the shelves on 20th June. Well done Rockstar!

Two new Manhunt 2 previews have shown up giving both old and new info. The Official PlayStation Portable Magazine [Issue 30] pretty much just gives already known info whereas , the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine gives quite a fair bit of new facts, read them all here:

• Execution button has been refined to just holding down the R1 button now, with no need for any addition buttons to be pressed.

• Flashbacks level ‘Best Friends’ where you play as Leo. In the level you are hunting down a man who stabbed you in the back, by the name of Michael. The level takes place at a dockside warehouse and includes a meat-packing puzzle. The confrontation ends with Michael being killed and Leo escaping on Michael’s powerboat. The magazine goes on to say that the battle acts as a ‘boss battle’, or is the equivalent to a boss battle for Manhunt 2.

• New weapons confirmed and or shown include: Uzi, baton, magnum, scythe, barrel of water and a flare gun.

• A new gun execution is mentioned; you put the gun in the hunters’ mouth and blow the top half of his head off.

• There is the ability to turn ‘VCR-style static’ off and on.

• A new hunter type is shown, they are big bulky military type characters, imagine the Wardogs on steroids and you are in the right ballpark.

• The magazine suggests that Daniels blackouts might be triggered through the use of televisions, in one screenshot you can see a half dozen or so TVs with Daniel holding his head as though in pain.

• New environmental executions revealed include a puddle of petrol that can be ignited with a match, a meat grinder that can be used for dumping bodies in and another shows Daniel holding a manhole cover over a fallen hunter, ready to decapitate him.

The Official PlayStation 2 Magazine also has the honours of getting the worlds first ever Manhunt 2 review, so check out for Issue 87 [Released 21st June] for that!