ASA: "Guys, we've had 9 complaints about this gruesome advert...now, we all know that 1 complaint is 1 billion people, so we've had NINE BILLION COMPLAINTS!"

Only a small part is of the game.

When an advert only shows you the product for a tiny amount of time, then you know the product is s**t and they are trying to hide it.

Looks like a rubbish game that needs it's advert banned so people don't waste money on it.

Is there a free demo so the game can be evaluated? Would you guys try it and tell us about it if there is a demo?

So a commercial was retired from broadcast at nightly hours when properly-educated children are asleep (or at least not in front of the telly), and was illico slapped on YouTube which doesn't even have an age control process and is available 24/7 for anyone with Internet access anywhere.

Way to go, people. Really useful that was.

The cherry on top is that it would certainly have showed up on YouTube anyway, but now it has notoriety for having been forbidden.
I'll wager a lot more toddlers will scar their brains with this just-a-click-away gory stuff now that they've heard of it.

I look forward to the day when people can tell the difference between 'depict' and 'condone'.

One very much like that, if not the same one has been airing for quite a while here in the states. I forget if the one I'm thinking about does contain the blood like this one, but it still has the same cranky custodian.

I just use it as a good time to get up and refresh the cold beverage and make room for more...isn't that what commercials are for, anyway?

We should all be horrified that any company would dare to think of showing computer-simulated violence, or even making software about such things.

Obviously these people want us to think such gruesome gore actually exists in this world, and people actually kill each other brutally and in sadistic ways, just for fun or for twisted reasons. Maybe they want to point out how stupid it is, or that simulated violence would be better than actually doing such things in real life.

Oh, wait...

Everybody haves them.

I think people should seriously consider the possibility that the reason kids playing violent video games haven't been more violent is that the video games haven't been realistic enough to cause accidental behavioural modification.

I'm not saying that's the case, but it's something that really needs to be examined, in my opinion.

Being a (former) werewolf & trying hard to stay reformed, stuff like that thrown in your face just makes it hard, you know?
It's like, "well what's the point then; why am I trying so hard".
I dunno, that's how I see it.

If it had been a movie trailer with Redd Pepper saying something like 
"In the shadows lurks an evil..." *hack hack* "you can run, but you cant hide" *blood hack gore*
right from the start, I suspect no one would have cared.

I agree with the first comment, but I bet there are still people out there that fear computer games and cant accept that adults play them too...and buy them for their kids even though they're rated 18 or M, then blame the games when they go out and kill someone.
Hmph.
Eejits.

...here (Germany) it is the whole game you can't get...

...well this is if you don't know shops like amazon which happily ship it to Germany as well - Do'H!

Makes you wonder if the ad company wasn't involved itself in getting it banned so it would get more attention.