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>He also didn't say that it would end the same, he said it was heading in that direction

As far as I understand it, a serialized story can't appear to "head" towards a deus ex machina ending. Deus ex machina has to be something dragged into a story totally unexpectedly, ie. no groundwork laid for it whatsoever, to force a desired ending: hence "god from a machine" because actors playing 'god' were (apparently) winched down from above the stage to tie up Greek tragedies. It doesn't just mean anything that employs gods or supernatural forces though. It's better illustarted by the Simpsons 'Lord of the Flies' pastiche where right at the end a smug voice over says "And then the children were all rescued by oh... let's say... Moe."

If, in the last episode of Dead Eyes, Indigo Prime decide to interfere that will be deus ex machina.

I don't think Revere really counts since the whole strip was about him going though a kind of psychic proving ground to attain this kind of higher state of control. Firekind, maybe.

OLD LADY 1: But they say it's a lot harder to learn new things when you get old don't they -
OLD LADY 2: Oooh that's rubbish! I've just learned to cut straight.

A girl in a my class at school circa 1995 (talking about the film Titanic)

"I saw something about they spent 60 million pounds building it two-thirds of the original size. What's the fucking point of that? Why don't they make it full size?"

The only DVD I have ever taken back to the shop to exchange for something else:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/BR2_DVDCover_TartanAsiaExtreme.jpg">

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Just a load of meaningless consonants (I have ok eyesight and access to magnifying glass).

Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/Manhunt-2-II-Wii-BRAND-NEW-FACTORY-SEALED-Low-Shipping_W0QQitemZ120130515731QQihZ002QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Here's one on eBay

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All that stuff about demons is only my conjecture of course but I'd be surprised if it isn't more or less accurate.

Funnily enough, Carmaggedon is the only other videogame ever to have received this treatment and that was eventually allowed release after appeal once the programmers had changed the pedestrians blood colour from red to green, suggesting they were zombies (because it's okay to mutilate the dead isn't it). But they built in an option to change the blood red anyway.

For the record, I played the first Manhunt to the end and found it a curiously distasteful experience - the final boss is just a little guy in a suit, scared out of his wits, with no weaponry, and you go after him with a chainsaw. I thought at the time Rockstar were being quite clever, making a game so violent that it kind of re-sensitizes you to violence, like in A Clockwork Orange. So making a sequel... I don't know.

I wouldn't actually have bought it anyway, but I do expect to have the option.    
 

Ah fuckin heck...

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MANHUNT 2
INFORMATION

An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong. Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper are the only surviving subjects. The Pickman Project will stop at nothing to hunt them down and stop the truth from getting out.

Demented scream echo around the dank asylum that has caged you for the last six years. You open your eyes. A white-coated body slumps to the floor through your shaking hands. A bloody syringe slips from your arm. Waves of confusion and paranoia crash over you. You have no idea who are how you got here.

The door to your cell is open. One choice. One chance. They took your life. Time to take it back.

Below is the game info from Rockstar's site. Since Rockstar are not exactly known for their subtlety, use of the name "Pickman" for a secret medical project suggests an HP Lovecraft influence (Pickman's Model). So I'm expecting there's a twist somewhere along the way where your character discovers the facility is breeding demon hybrids or something, like in 'O! Lucky Man' where Malcolm McDowall stumbles upon the half-man half-sheep guy.

Now, if the game really does revolve around human experiments and it turns out your enemies are part demon or part-demon enablers, doesn't that change the nature of the game to 'fantasy violence' or, ethically, even mercy killing (stretching here I know)? Even if you gouge a demon's eyes out with a sword, isn't it still a nasty demon getting what it deserves? Or do demons have feelings too? Shimura was never banned. I've got a book of Krishna with a colour plate of him decapitating a demon with a sacred gold frisbee. That hasn't been banned...
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Definitely "6.?"

That kid is rubbish. Michaelangelo wears an orange mask.

Well obviously, but it was meant to come out on May 15th. What's happened to it is what I want to know.

Doesn't seem to be available anywhere. Not even in the 2000ad shop...