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Waste of a great idea
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I was very much looking forward to this game, since I think that the idea is awesome. Instead, I was let down, disappointed and frustrated at what might have been. Here is the rundown:
GRAPHICS: Mediocre. Maybe the Xbox and my PC have spoiled me, but the PS2's graphics are really starting to show their age. The grainy texture, meant to simulate a video feed, conveniently hides low-res textures and graphics.
SOUND: Good, though I've heard much better. Splinter Cell (a game after which Manhunt is patterned in many ways) does it MUCH better.
CONTROL: Laborious. Remember how fights in GTA 3 were somewhat laborious, especially with multiple baddies? That's Manhunt. The control is a little better, but still rather stunted and jerky, lacking the precision of Splinter Cell or Metal Gear. The fights are button mashing affairs, with little difference between the hard and fast strike buttons.
GAMEPLAY: Linear, repetitive and forced. The game won't let you escape an area without killing, so there goes the stealth aspect. You MUST gore the hunters in order to proceed. The weapons vary, but be prepared for drudgery at the lower levels: you have your fists, a shard or a plastic bag. Again, it's like Splinter Cell without the sense of purpose or mission, as you mindlessly dispatch yet another identical clone on your way to the next level, where you... mindlessly dispatch another identical clone. The atmosphere is pretty good, though again the control and graphics conspire against this game. If you want to run around and create havoc, get GTA 3; if you want stealth action, get Splinter Cell. If you want to waste money, get Manhunt.
This is so stupid
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 17
Date: March 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Okay, as if we don't have enough killing games already. GTA3 VC and other games are all fine and dandy, but this is just dumb. There is no point to it. It's stupid and everything is very fake and lloks dumb. I can't believe people play this crap.
Violence in Video Games is Way Too Overrated --
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game is a demented game first off. This game is racy and violent and is definitely not intended for anyone below 17 or so, particularly today's teenagers. Manhunt, the disturbed spawn of Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell, is alive and well. Cash utilises radar, sound and shadows of both respective games, Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell. Like one of its brothers, whenever a stealth kill is performed, the scene is broadcasted (like Tenchu). The controls are nearly perfect, and the sound is exceptional, particularly with the use of the headset. The Director is an interesting character. He is more or less a wicked version of Otocon or Lambert, and he guides you along the way. The use of ratings is particularly unique but not new. But the use of the headset as a distraction device for the hunters, those attempting to kill you, is fun to use.
Now to the bad parts --
The graphics is bland, and I mean, bland. The textures are horrendous, and the use of the same old greys, reds, etc. should be banned. Second, the enemy AI is inconsistent sometimes. Sometimes, the enemies are brilliant and soemtimes, they fall short of fellow Pet Rocks. Next, the mission objectives are sometimes quite obscure. Additionally, the missions can get tedious after a while because the story does not move. Cash is dragged from one place to another without revealing much in terms of story. Lastly, the level design is very linear. Cash can not hang or jump onto objects. The only thing he can do is hide...that's about it.
Overall this game is good, but this game is not intended for children or teenagers. There is some racial language and some demonstrations of out-and-out violence. This game is definitely worth a test, particularly those waiting for Metal Gear Solid 3 or Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.
Great Idea For A Game, But There Are Drawbacks of Course
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Manhunt is a game created by Rockstar Games (i.e. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City). The game is about a convict (James Earl Cash) who was sentenced to death row. Anyway, he is rescued by a mysterious man by the name of the Director. The Director is a lunatic who is obsessed with snuff films and puts Cash into his own personal fantasy. Your every move is filmed and you have a ton of goons hunting you down in an abandoned city. The goal is to kill the goons and do what the Director says. The idea of this game was very cool and fresh. When I started playing the game I was very impressed with the fluid motion and graphics. I like the idea of being hunted kind of like Jean Claude Van Dame was in the movie "Hard Target." Anyway, the downside to this game was that it needs more action. All in all, this game is pretty good due to the idea that this game invokes.
Style, Stealth...and a word starting with S meaning "Gory"
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User
When you see "Rockstar Games" on the box for this game, don't think "Oh, then this will be like GTA or Max Payne." Think more like "Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid" and you're a lot closer. "Manhunt" is an incredibly stylistic stealth game with a horrendous amount of gore thrown in for the heck of it.
You play as Cash, a man sentanced to death row, and executed...or at least, made to look like you've been executed. You're still alive, and are now trying to get out of a town right reminisant of post-apocalyptic Hell, without the fire and brimstone, full of hired gangs looking to collect on the bounty on your head, all so you can be put on films to be sold on the black market for death-fetish enthusists. Simple enough, I suppose...you're armed with nothing but your wits and whatever you happen to find on the ground. So how are you supposed to get past all these gangs? Stealth. Stealthstealthstealth. And one more time so you get it, stealth. Hide behind corners, hide in the shadows, hide in dark alleys, hide behind a box, hide everywhere you can. If you hide well enough, you can sneak behind your enemy and execute him in a rather...unpleasent manner. From the crowbar, to the baseball bat, to the plastic sack, every execution you preform is rather grotesque, and there's 3 fun ways to execute people for each weapon! With the violence shown in some of these animations, it's almost hard to believe that they only got a "M" rating on this game...
So, you may be asking yourself, "OK, I've played stealth games before. Besides intense gore, what seperates this from any of the others?" Well, what seperates any game from anything else? Style. The game is truely creepy. The atmosphere in the game is truely disturbing. Everything is dark, enemies are waiting around every corner. You'll jump in your seat every time someone leaps from the shadows and yells like a nut. You'll be moving around an abandoned bulding, and then hear a cough and see a blip on your radar and you'll say "{Oops}." The game uses a minimalist soundtrack, and thank{fully} they did. Some games go for one thing, and then the soundtrack completely ruins the entire feel of the game. Not here. The feel of the game is so well done. Kudos to Rockstar for making something that'll make someone out there probably crap their pants...
The game isn't without hiccups though...it's called "Controls." I doubt it'd have been hard to make the right thumbstick control the camera, but Rockstar north decided against it...it'd make too much sence and be much too convienient, I guess. The controls take some getting used to...OK, they take a LOT of getting used to. The right thumbstick does NOTHING! 3rd Person games without camera control are so Tomb Raider 1. This is 2003. Nothing wrong with two thumbstick controls, people. Thanks to the control-less camera, running away from enemies can sometimes prove to be a trick. The triangle button being used to hug against walls is a bit unnessesary too. Every once in a blue moon, you'll run into the problem of trying to hug a wall, and accidentally kicking a shopping cart, alerting everyone to your presence...so instead of stealth, you get "I'm over here!"
If you're into stealth games, and can learn to live with some unnessesary funky controls, you'll really enjoy Manhunt. Just make sure you have the stomach for it...
Great Fun For 10 Minutes
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User
The problem with this game is it is alot of fun for the first ten minutes and than after that all u do is repeat the same murder scenarios over and over. Sitting in the shadows for 10 minutes waiting for some stupid ape of a gang member to walk away isnt my idea of fun, it is just tedious. Rent it first just in case u might feel the same way. If u dont mind repetitive killing than u will love this game.
My Favorite Video Game, The Funniest Too.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Manhunt Is An Inventive & Gory Game. A Lot Of People Overlook That This Game Has An Great Sense Of Humor As Well. Highly Recommended.
Love ManHunt its the game where you acsaly kill people while trying to survive a all out murder deathmach
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 11
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User
Love the game I have it along with Resident Evil 4 Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 3 Resident Evil Zero Resident Evil Dead Rising the Evil Dead series Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Splinter Cell Double Agent Red Dead Revolver GUN and all the other M raded titles out there have them all and this is new to my collection along with Killzone and Halo II the first time I got ManHunt I was so exieted because I heard it was a big hit in Rockstar Games everyone had it my friend Joe my cousen Anthony and my older 15 year old Brother Drake which he would never let me play because he thought I would scratch the disk and he just like's being Mean no wonder he is the biggest baddest meannest bully in his high school he walks down the halls like he owns the place he dunks students heads in their lunches he takes fried chicken mashed potatoes peaches meatlofe fahetas tacos cookies bagals doughnuts chili and the schools own Harvest Moon cookies they are the best so he takes them whenever possible I even heard he got expelled from the principals office when he took the principals Harvest Moon cookie off the napkin and stuffed it in his mouth when the principal looked at him all he could see is cookie crumbs all over Drakes face what did he do take the Harvest Moon cookie off the stupid napkin and smear it on his face before he ate it unfortunatly that's what he did so on vacation we took him to skinny o ramma California so we could make him skinny because he was so fat he coulden't get on the school bus the people there took him to the Hosbital where he was put on a vegtables only diet and this was his scenuwal he had to go into the sauna 10 times a day for 50 hours with no drink exept water after that he had to work in the gym doing whaight lifting jogging running punch a punching bag with a solid rock inside do track and feild outside in the blazeing heat soggy rain and freezing winter on a muddy track whithout stoping for a drink after that he had to go inside the Spa room get massaged waxed washed and pickled and buttered and get oiled with olive oil and scraped with a razor he said that was the part he dreaded the most and he had to repeat the process over and over and over again until the day came he was atmediatly taken to the Spa again but this time he was bathed in a rumbleing hot tub with shampoo big bars of soap floating at the top one big bar of soap even got so close to his face it touched his lips the people made him lick it off his lips and swallow the taste and after that they made him get out of the hot tub and into a chair where he was perfumed with herbs and spices and they tied a crown of roses on his neck then he was taken to a cerimony where he was forced to walk down a runway naked where lots of people could see him with the roses tied to his neck I saw him he was very skinny his body was skinny his legs were skinny I even didn't reconise his butt it was so skinny that it didn't even look like a butt then he met the skinny master and the master embraced him and welcomed him and made him a member of skinny o ramma California and that is the story
PURE JUNK !!
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 21
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User
why the violence??? oh yeah its the only way it will sell... this game crossed that line and deserves to be banned. besides it just plain sux and is way over rated ... if this is what the video game industry is going to be about, then I'm gonna retire my controller and this junky hardware called playstation 2!
Parents! DO NOT buy or let your kids buy this game!
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 46
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User
When I played this game at my friend's house, i was ready to lose my lunch over the intensity of gore in this game. you can slice peoples' throats wide open, and leave them there screaming for mercy. I wasnted to throw up. Also, this game displayes racism towards many ethnic groups, giving me another reason to not buy it, because I am one of those ethnics. Parents, if there is one game I would NEVER reccommend you buying for you or your kids, it is definitley this game. I have never seen a game this evil and prejudice against cultures in my 13 years on the planet earth. also, you can take axes and throw them at peoples heads, leaving their brains spilled out all over the ground, or you can literally blow them in half with a shotgun. This game must be taken off the market. There is too much of this racism going on in the world today, and these pointless games make it worse. If you have ever played "The Getaway" which is a game for PS2, similar to Grand Theft Auto, and you see the horrible level of racism in that game, multiply that by 3, and you have "Manhunt." It is worse than Grand Theft Auto Vice City!
We don't need this kind of thing in video games! Think of all thew other good games we have for our consoles! If you have XBox, gat halo, or brute force, or if you have gamecube, get a mario party game! If you have PS2, get Medal of Honor, or Splinter Cell! What I am trying to point out is that there are other video games out there that are better than this and don't include this graphic racism and violence. Think about it, and make the right decision. Think of the minds of your kids and how these sorts of games are brainwashing their generation that different races are bad. It's all GARBAGE.One final statement: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S: dont buy this game!
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