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You Cant Buy Manhunt 2 At Target So Dont Try

More trouble for Rockstar Games Manhunt 2, it looks like Target will refuse shipments at the store level and only sell the game online. Gee I bet they will still sell unrated edition DVD’s along side the ultra gory horror movies, BUT OMG we can’t sell manhunt 2 to people 18 and over in the store.

I just spoke to a contact at my local Target store, who informed me of an interesting internal memo. Apparently all Target stores are to stop selling Manhunt 2, going so far as to tell managers to refuse shipments of the title for all systems, with Take 2 agreeing to take back all unopened copies of the game.

Why is this action being taken? The extreme violence in the game is the given reason, but my contact (an employee but not a manager) was told that it was due in greater part to the unfavorable coverage the game got in the national press the last several days. Target stores had been selling the game since it’s launch, but it was only today that they were told to pull the product and refuse further shipments.

The listing for Manhunt 2 on the Target website shows that the item is “not available in stores.”

I’ve spoken to employees of several other large retailers (Best Buy, Gamestop and Circuit City) and none of them are, at this time, taking similar actions.

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Tags: manhunt 2, psp, rockstar games, target, wii

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