Manhunt

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » November 22, 2003, 12:39 pm

This game is unbelievably brutal.
Anyone else playing it?

noel · Post by **noel** » November 22, 2003, 2:20 pm

I AM WAITING FOR YOUR REVIEW SIR!

It may be brutal, but... is it good?

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » November 22, 2003, 4:59 pm

picking this up real soon

I have heard on a good word that this game is great. The fatalities are just sick, so much so that it will have you laughing.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » November 23, 2003, 12:34 am

Sick is right. Kills come in 3 flavors - quick, medium, or brutal. Quick kills you only need a lockon for about 1 to 2 seconds and aren't very rewarding. 2 to 5 seconds gives you a medium, which isn't that bad. Anything over 5, the targeting is red, and your victim is in for a treat.

Some examples of a few of the (Brutal) fatalities so far:
Knife / Glass Shard: Stabs them in the back, turns them around, gouges out both eyes.

Baseball bat: chokes them out with hte bat, when they drop to their knees, you go all Ken Grieffy Jr on their brainboxes.

Billyclub: Hits them in the back of the head a couple times, they turn, he gets them in a headlock, then breaks their neck.

Wire: Comes up behind, saws through their neck with it, then picks up their head as a "distraction" weapon.

Crowbar: Hooks them in the kidneyes, jerks out, then rams it into their skulls.

All kills are done in special cutscenes which add to the grittyness of the game. This isn't an easy game, either.. put it simply, if they see you, you're working at about 70% odds that you are dead. Your radar only works while your opponents are making noise.. such as whistling, walking, talking. They will assist each other, and whenever YOU make a sound, if they're in range, they come running. The story is wierd but entertaining, and the locales are as gritty as you could hope for. The npcs are hostile and will verbally taunt you constantly..

Damn fine game, imo. DO NOT let kids play this.. fuck this fuck that fuck you heads exploding over a wall.. not for the little ones.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » November 23, 2003, 2:22 am

In other words, another fine Rockstar Games product.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 23, 2003, 2:30 am

my god i must play this game, what consoles and/or pc?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » November 23, 2003, 11:09 am

It's just on the PS2. Also, according to a review I read yesterday.. if you have the headset, you get some fun things.

Lemme give the story on this real fast.

You play a man named James Earl Cash - a convicted serial killer. At the beginning of the game, the United States of America shoves your ass down and gives you a lethal injection.

You die.

You wake up a short time later with a splitting headache and an attitude problem. Yes, you were killed - but a guy named Starkweather, aka: The Director, has arranged it so you've been revived, and now you're in the starring psychopath in his snuff films (no, you're not banging hookers and putting them down). The Director speaks to you in an earpiece he leaves by the place you're revived at. Your mission, weather you want to do it or not, is to get the hell out of this beaten down city he's so delightfully prepared for you. The problem? He's also hired a few dozen gangs to kill you. And his own little traps are all around for your.. enjoyment.

Back to the headset. If you have it, the director's voice comes traight into your earpiece IRL; the rest of the sounds come through your TV's speakers. If you say somthing into the mouthpiece.. ie, somthing startles you and you go OH SHIT - guess what? Manhunt translates that into a sound you just made in the game and the opposition WILL hear you.

Funky, no?

masteen · Post by **masteen** » November 24, 2003, 12:41 pm

My friend was showing me this. The plastic bag is by far the fucking best weapon.

Post by **Sylvus** » November 24, 2003, 2:41 pm

Damn, it's not out for Xbox? I'd hate to have to turn my ps2 on for the first time this year.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » November 24, 2003, 5:48 pm

all the good games from rockstar hit ps2 before xbox, only to be converted a year down the road after already visiting pc (READ: GTA3 and Vice City)