Another new game title falls foul of the UK censor, reports Felicia Carma-Geddon
It’s turning out to be a bad year for the video gaming industry. No sooner has Manhunt 2 been denied a UK release after failing to receive a BBFC rating, when Bill Oddie’s Bughunt 7 looks set to face a similar fate. Developed by TV Personality Games, Bughunt 7 puts the player in the role of a rare beetle called Ben, who is trying to avoid capture after being released into the wild from the collection of a crazed entomologist.
During the game, Ben must escape the clutches of a series of bloodthirsty nature programme presenters, including Bill Oddie, David Bellamy and Steve Irwin, before facing the big boss, David Attenborough and his team of jungle gorillas. In its report, the BBFC criticised Bughunt 7’s cruel and sadistic portrayal of flies having their wings pulled off and ants being burned with giant magnifying glasses.
‘But in reality we just don’t like creepy-crawlies’, explained the BBFC’s Pauline Killjoy. ‘Yuck, nasty little creatures.’
Bernard Manning’s posthumous game release, Jokehunt, where the player faces a gruelling quest for humour whilst being assailed by vicious mothers in law, also looks set to meet the censor’s axe, later in 2007.
‘But in reality we just don’t like creepy-crawlies’, explained the BBFC’s Pauline Killjoy. ‘Yuck, nasty little creatures.’
Bernard Manning’s posthumous game release, Jokehunt, where the player faces a gruelling quest for humour whilst being assailed by vicious mothers in law, also looks set to meet the censor’s axe, later in 2007.
