Manhunt

[Anonymous]

Just finished with this one.

The story is that you're a death row inmate who, instead of being executed, was drugged and taken to be used in a sort of citywide snuff film, having to fight your way past a variety of hunters, all out for your head.

Easily the most violent game on the market. The emphasis is on stealth, and all the weapons you find can be used both for combat and for stealth kills.

A word on the stealth kills: they're set up so that when you sneak up on someone, you hold down the button to determine whether you commit a hasty, violent, or gruesome stealth kill. Despite the ranks, most of the kills are pretty gruesome, from repeatedly stabbing someone in the eyes with a shard of glass, to disemboweling them with a sickle, to a decapitation via three wet chops of a machete.

Later in the game, guns start to show up. Nowhere near as messy as the other weapon kills, but making explosive headshots is fairly easy if you're close.

In short, not a bad game, although the stealth kill system seems more for show than anything else. It's worth taking a look at, if for nothing else than to find out ahead of time the controversy that will almost certainly arise from the game.


On a related note, given that some kids shot at cars on the freeway because of what they saw in GTA 3, I can only imagine what they might do as a result of this game. Don't be too surprised if you hear a story about a kid hitting his friend in the face with a hatchet because he saw it in Manhunt.

[Mr. Vagiclean]

i wondered about this game when they put it on TV to tease...

Sounds fun, i gotta get this along with my "slow children at play" sign for my christmas

* forgot to ask, is the replayability high?

[OrganSplitter]

How was it with the headset, if you used it

[Nemesis]

I'm still at the 'Doing Time' level. Bastard game keeps freezing up on me.

I absoultely love this game. The level 3 wire execution, to me, is the most disturbing. The sawing motion and the gurgling sound....damn.

[liquidstatik]

Babbages wouldn't let me
buy the game. Looks good though.

[Protoclown]

I'LL PLAY IT AFTER I BEAT FALLOUT 1

[Bennett]

i thought this was about last fridays unofficial pub-crawl.

[Nemesis]

I just wish this game wasn't so glitched. It seems like a lot of people have problems with the game freezing. I'm stuck on the same level just because of that.

[Lye]

is this game long?

[Nemesis]

People were saying it was fairly short, but it's turning out to be a lot longer than I first thought. It's a fairly tough game, especially if you're going for 5 stars on each level in Hardcore mode.

Originally Posted by Mr. Vagiclean

* forgot to ask, is the replayability high?

Yeah. Getting rated 3 stars on levels unlocks concept art and brief stories about some of the gangs. And getting a full 5 stars unlocks cheat codes, and, if nothing else, satisfaction of being good at such a hard game.