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DISTURBING + CREEPY= AWESOME 8 OUT OF 10

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Manhunt is without a doubt one of the most disturbing games ever made, and judging by the scores given to its sequel, it still retains that throne. You spend a lot of your time killing enemies without being detected, and if you are detected you're in deep s***. The game has an incredibly creepy environment to do your hellish deeds and eliminate the enemy. The game can get incredibly difficult, especially when you're trying to fight more than one enemy which will in many cases cost you your life. You can lead enemies into traps by making noise by banging your weapon against a wall. Then, when the enemy comes and doesn't see you and walks away you can kill him in macabre ways(via suffocation with plastic bags or stab him with a piece of glass, which is made more brutal when you hold down the attack button). You will only be terrified throughout this game because you don't know what will come for you next and how will it try and kill you. The game has problems though. The camera is a bit squirrelly, especially when looking around, and controls are a bit of a chore at times. But if you enjoy getting the s*** scared at you by all means pick up this game immediately.

kill kill kill

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

THis game is one of the most grisly games i ever played. it is an great game an i love the little movies of when you kil your enemies. Like bashing a guys face off with an bat. It is just great. You can also take fiber wirer and use an execution by strapping it around the guys throat and scraping at his neck till his head falls off. it is just an awesome game. I cant wait for manhunt 2!!!!!!!!!!!

Manhunt...................

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Manhunt is probbably one of my favorite games of all time. I like how you can sneek up behind people and kill them and stuff like that. I'd reccomend this game to people if they like gore and blood and stuff like that

The smell of death is in the air

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just the feeling of killing a man with a glass shard will get you heart pumping and in this game it will pump a lot. The gameplay itself has a pretty basic scenario to it hide and when the guys back is turned kill him, but it's just the sheer brutality of it that never gets old.

Simply the best game I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There is a movement going on in the world of video gaming, those of us who absolutely cherish the 'Manhunt' title are doing whatever we can to convince Rockstar to make a sequel to this game!!! It's been out for a few years, and I know it was a hit when it first came out, so instead of wasting time with more dumb GTA titles, can we please get our sequel? There is numerous web-sites dedicated to this 'movement' , they talk about petitions, phone-calls, you name it, fans of this game are willing to do it. I believe one person went so far as to try and get to the head execs at Rockstar headquarters, but his message apparently fell on deaf ears.

Alot of fans feel the reason no sequel has been discussed is all the controversy that first appeared upon the games initial release. I have a hard time believing this, while I agree this game is sick and twisted and extremely violent, it's nothing we haven't seen before in any of the GTA or Resident Evil titles. If anyone takes this game to serious and causes any problems then blame the individual, not the game.

Okay, enough preaching, let's chat about this amazing game. No game I've ever played kept me more entertained, excited, and shaking my head in disbelief then 'Manhunt'. While I agree it is a tad slow and deliberate, the patience and persistence you need to play this only adds to the enjoyment. It's nice to have a game when you can use stealth instead of mass-murdering, when you use patience and planning istead of running head-on into the crowd and start hacking everything in sight. I also liked the way the game gets much harder the farther you advance, at first the beginning levels are rather easy, but as you hit level after level (there are 20) the game gets more intense and much more violent. Another big plus is you can control the severity of the kill, you can make it quick and mildly painfull, or make it gruesome and gory.

I have never been a huge fan of 'bosses' those games when you finish a level, but at the end there is some ultra-tough boss that takes an extreme amount of damage to destroy. With 'Manhunt' you don't get that, it's just gang member after gang member coming after you, all with different weapons that vary in inflicting damage on you. I have played and finished all the GTA games as well as the Resident Evil titles, and don't get me wrong, those are fun games (except Vice City, what a waste of time) but after playing 'Manhunt' and completing it some 15 times now, it amazed me how much those other games were lacking. For pure suspense, there is none better!!!!!!

Brian Cox supplies the voice of Starkweather, the main man in control of the whole game. You talk about a perfect fit, his voice is chilling yet comical at times, forcefull through most of the game, then pathetic and begging at the end. Cox absolutely nailed this, and heres hoping that if we ever get a sequel, his voice will again be behind it. So while I'm not gung-ho with the petition, etc, etc. I figure the more I can make people aware of this sensational game, then the more apt they will be to play it and buy it, maybe that will get Rockstar's attention.

Did they really make this game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes. That is my question whenever I think of this game. Did Rockstar North create a game where you spend hours at a time sneaking up on killers, thugs, Nazis, and Psychos and then executing them in the most horrific method imaginable? Then I look over to my video game shelve, at the X-Box Section, and there it is. "Manhunt", nestled in between "Halo 2" and "Mega Man Anniversery Collection." Yes, that's right. The Grand Theft Auto series is getting more attention than what is perhaps the most wonderfully depraved video game I have ever seen, perhaps ever made. How they got away with this, I don't know. Seriously. Can anyone tell me of a more sickening video game? E-mailme so I can further drive myself to madness.
What happens when you blow someone's head off with a shotgun or sniper rifle in GTA? Well, first off, their head straight up just dissapears. Then a healthy fountain of blood rockets out from their neck, Kill Bill style. When you empty a shell into the face of a Smiley or cap a cop from 100 yard away, something special happens. Speacial and horrific. You actually get to see the bits and pieces of brain and skull go flying off their shoulders and splatter, freakin' splatter, on the wall of ground behind them. Sometimes the tops of their heads remain and all that's left is a gaping, gooey hole in the middle of their faces.
My favorite execution has the gruesome version of the plastic bag. It looks the most realistic.

Bleed for the Camera

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

By far one of the most strange, perverse, and blissfully violent games ever to grace the Xbox. While we collectively pray for a sequel we can spend our time finding ways to sneak up behind masked criminals and see that they get the justice that the courts failed to provide.

I wanted to LOVE it....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is truly one of those games where looks can be deceiving. It is quite violent, but the violence is always a cut scene. There are 3 levels of stealth kills. Each levels kill for a single weapon is always teh same, so it gets a bit repetitive. The only things i HATED were that it's ALL stealth and if you actually have to engage in melee combat with an enemy it takes them forever to go down. Truly an inspiring game though..I am thinkign about renting it again to see if i can get further and enjoy it more.

Its all in the System!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What a bummer, Manhunt falling into the grasps of the evil x-box and its 2 game limit. Its pathetic, but I must admit at least now x-box has one good game on their console.

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Besides all that, the game doesn't perform well on the x-box whatsoever. The controls are hard and glitchy, and the pixels are too underdone. The most critical thing is that the controls were under-looked which makes the game just as sad as the xbox. The game is great and receives a 5 but instead of playing it on the xbox just throw the game in the toilet. It's a lot more disrespectful and definitely more entertaining.

decent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Whoa! i wasnt expecting a game like this, IT BLEW ME AWAY! first off, id like to say, if your disturbed easily DO NOT play this game! you will be sick, and run for the bathroom in mere seconds! second off, id like to say that if you like really gory intense game that has buckets of blood, weapons, and massive swear use, YOULL LOVE THIS GAME! the plot is that youre james earl ca$h, and mass murderers are hunting you for sport (or for fun) and you must kill them before they kill you. sick huh? oh ya! but the main point is that this game is action, but its also puzzle, sneak up on them before they sneak up on you with knifes, butcher knifes, ice pix, and/or guns, ETC. you are being guided to the person that did this to you...and butcher him... ya i know it sounds creepy, BUT ITS REALLY FUN! a definite 5

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