Torture Game Criticism Cranks Up Torture Game Popularity

[Andy Chalk]

Torture Game Criticism Cranks Up Torture Game Popularity

A controversial torture game has been given a big bump in popularity thanks to the efforts of watchdog groups that are decrying the existence of the controversial torture game.

Available on The Torture Game 2 [http://www.newgrounds.com] lets people go to work on a helpless ragdoll dummy suspended in the air by ropes. Tools available to the player include spikes, rope, razor blades, a chainsaw, numerous firearms and more, with which the player can inflict various forms of punishment and bloodletting until the subject dies.

parental alert [http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/06/26/will-torture-game-spark-new-controversy] about the game.

Ironically, all the watchdogging and alerting has apparently resulted in a large upsurge in the number of people now playing the game. "The latest controversy has been surrounding The Torture Game 2, a fun little ragdoll physics engine that lets you do all sorts of horrible things to a lifeless dummy," Newgrounds webmaster Tom Fulp wrote on the site [http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/930989].

"MSNBC picked up on the Fair & Balanced video [http://tigsource.com/articles/2008/05/29/torture-game-2], expressing their disgust while showing real-time footage of the person being tortured," he said. "Hey! At least we slapped a MATURE rating on the game and made you click a link to view it... Fox just dumped it into every living room in America!"

"As a result of their efforts, many more people are now enjoying The Torture Game 2," he added.

If you want to enjoy The Torture Game 2 yourself, hop on over to Newgrounds and give it a try [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439144].


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[Cousin_IT]

What evidence of children playing this game is provided other then a rather melodramatic fox news anchor saying "your!!!! children play this game"

I also found it amusing that the first thing the fox news PTC representative goes to is "lots of evidence of media exposure affecting children" while theyre showing this thing to millions of people for the first time on the news

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

My favorite thing about that pic is that the torture doll is both tied up and nailed to the wall. Remember kids, you can never be too careful when you're suspending the victim in the air.

 

[Rezfon]

yet again, Fox news are all over the slightest thing that could shock people. Its newgrounds, what do you expect! Someone should really point out that fox news is basically talking about a site that has anime porn and see what they say to that.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Just looks like high school PE to me.

 

[Thais]

Sounds boring. But given that the thing's in a cruciform position, I'm surprised the Christian Right's not all over this with some spiel about disrespecting Jesus or something.

 

[KurtNiisan]

Having played it a few weeks ago, it's not something I'd really give a second thought to. I played it for about 10 minutes and was like "Eh" and went to play something else.

The overreaction of the American media (i.e Fox) just goes to show how retarded it really is when Republicans have their say. Although, in saying that, the Democrats haven't been doing that good of a job of getting the Gaming community onside *eyes Hillary*

 

[Jumplion]

Not that great of a flash game anyway, get's old after 5 minutes or so.

 

[unoleian]

Somehow, melting an army man figurine with a lighter seems more violent and sadistic than this little "game."

Just another chapter in Fox News' continuing saga of Fail.

 

[GothmogII]

So what? I can get free torture games but no-one will bother investing in a free pr0n simulator!? /jk

Still, it's pretty disturbing, although, who knows, maybe it's a good stress reliever, think I saw an option to stick images on the face

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

i like how she brought up tv shows with torture themes, fox's own big hit show 24 has how much torture in it????? oh wait, that's tv it has context and even though there you get to hear people scream and beg a lifeless mute MANAQUIN is somehow more damaging. i'm not saying the game is wholesome fun but come on on newgrounds alone you'll find much worse stuff than that.

 

[Synangel]

Uhm. there's stuff floating around the internet where it shows people murdering other people, and pictures, and stories of people who have died, and they care about an animated drawing. Also in that fox video they refer to him at "It" and "Thing" so they arnt really taking ti that serious. And later they refer to the person who made it. They refered to him as "Some kid in south africa." im not sure if this kid is south african, but to me it sounded racist (not that u took office, mabey im just looking on the dark side.) But ya. What im getting at is theres more grusome things than that on Public sites, and even on the news from time to time.

 

[calelogan]

I haven't played the game yet, but I will now. It's amazing how the media and conservationists can screw things up. Reminds me of the Mass Effect scandal on Fox News...

In any case, I wouldn't have know of "Torture Game 2"'s existence if it weren't for this article. Which proves in turn the point of the message. ^^

Nicely done

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Not that great of a flash game anyway, get's old after 5 minutes or so.

Lasted 3 minutes here. Tried each tool once. Ah well, everybody'll have forgotten about this thing in a few days anyways.

 

[DamienHell]

Boring game; he doesn't even scream.

What's the point in torturing someone if they don't scream?

I know, I'm taking this guys skin off for over 2 minutes, and not a scream, the game is hardly fun, the only sign of life is when he dies he exhales, which I find hard to believe because all the air leaked out of his lungs when I PUT A SPIKE THROUGH THEM! >

 

[Jumplion]

Not that great of a flash game anyway, get's old after 5 minutes or so.

Lasted 3 minutes here. Tried each tool once. Ah well, everybody'll have forgotten about this thing in a few days anyways.

Hell, i never even HEARD of this game until this article. Infact, i bet most kids went to Newgrounds because they saw this on FOX News and now it's even more popular........oh wait....

 

[iamnotincompliance]

Well, not having played the game (and not going to with the "resounding 'eh' " it's gotten so far), I can't comment on that, however, it does remind me of a situation a few months back I'd like to relate. Passing a local video store on our way to... elsewhere, we (doesn't matter who) spotted a group of protesters outside of said store who apparently did not approve of the store's rental of [shock and horror] pornography. [/shock & horror] Naturally, my first reaction was "Huh, I didn't know they had that. Cool." Not that I rent or buy that sort of thing, mind you, although I must say watching it for the so-call storyline is almost always good for a laugh, but enough of my odd habits. The point I was going for there was I'm sure their business rose too, and that's when my inner skeptic kicked in to full red alert. They weren't there when we drove by again, and I haven't seen them since. Conclusion: the video store put out these protesters to boost business, and that's the same kind of thing I see here. Secretly, Microsoft, Fox, NBC or some combination thereof own Newgrounds.

Go ahead and tell me how utterly wrong my conclusion is (I never go to Newgrounds and know next to nothing about it), but to those who will follow, remember I said "secretly".