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A Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is truly an amazing game! As a lot of reviewers have said, I loved Manhunt ever scince the first level. The dark, trashed city matches up extermely well with the concept of the game, and you will be amazed what a short amount of time it takes for you to really feel like you are actually there.

There is such a wide variety of ways and weapons to do damage to your opponent with, from sneaking up on someone and suffocating them with a plastic bag, or running down the dirty, litter-filled street with guns blazing.

As great as this game is, it is definatly NOT for kids. It is very sick and violent, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 16. Along with the violence, the language in this game is about a bad as it gets in any video game. Manhunt has definetly earned it's M rating, and it is great for older gamers!

dark brilliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It seems like most reviews here are either quite positive or quite negative, so for any potential buyers out there here's my opinion: anyone who has the patience and the nerve to successfully play this game will love it. there are two kinds of people who do not like this game: those who are looking for more of a "run and gun" experience---one that's more fast-paced---and those who don't have the stomach for its oppressive, cruel and, yes, violent nature. Later portions of the game do in fact contain fast-paced shootouts, but the real brilliance of Manhunt is the seamless connection between quiet, patient stealth and brutal, intense murder. Also the game should be played with maturity---perhaps you don't like violence, but that won't change the fact that this is an excellent game, meticulously planned in its level design, pacing, AI, presentation, sound, and gameplay. It is NOT a truly "repetitive" game. True, the player must repeat the action of killing, but anyone who has played up to such levels as "view of innocence" or "drunk driving" should realize the depth of level design and the subtleties (and variety) of gameplay---the gradual introduction to guns and the slow, subtle increase in tension has been expertly done. In the context of Carcer City (MH's setting), the stealth gameplay mechanic works so well, it's a shame that some reviewers have cast this gem aside after a brief rental---the whole point of this game is to use your intellect, or instincts, to take advantage of resources and survive...of course Manhunt does not work as a game if the player tries to attack gangs head-on...Manhunt is meant to be played with 100% stealth kills until the player gets hands on the trusty sawed-off and the like. In other words Manhunt's brilliance can only be appreciated when played well, and that appreciation grows over time. Anyone who has the balls to put in good time with this game will discover that it provides a real thrill, and a real challenge. Just be sure you have the patience and the stomach to deal with it.

Pretty fair

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very gruesome, that alone should tell yourself that it isn't safe for kids. Also, it's use of interjection and cuss words is not a reason to get this game for your children. Now the content, of it's many levels it starts to get stale after a while. Crawling around executing people just loses it's pizazz after a while. However there are some good levels where the main objective isn't to kill. Like there is one level where you have a "friend" following you around. You have to keep the transient alive throughout the whole game. While you can send him into a "sleep mode", and goes into a shadow away from the Innocentz. There are many doors and you can not get buzzed in unless you have this guy with you. It's going to do for games what movies like dawn of the dead and day of the dead did for movies. Which is break through censorship barriers. Oh, and don't piss off Fug.

Snuff films gone wild!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you've ever had a grievance against mimes, sports fanatics, clowns, or carnies, this is the game is for you. As James Earl Cash, it is your job to kill, in the most gruesome manner possible, gangs of inanity-yelling, face-painting, mask-wearing degenerates. And no, the setting is not a Star Wars convention or a Raiders game. It is a fictional place called Carcer city, where you have been sentenced to death--and just as the execution is about to take place, you are awakened by a strange voice and freed. Without giving too much of the story away, I can tell you that as the game progresses you are summarily dumped into various run-down parts of the city so that you can hunt and be hunted by various gangs for the amusement of a seemingly omniscient and severely deranged filmmaker.

I normally avoid stealth-based games like I'd get an STD just from playing them, but this one is a lot of fun. There seems to be just the right balance of stealth and action within the game, rewarding covertness but often allowing players the option to take their enemies head-on if they so choose. This usually leads to a quick death, but it can be a lot of fun.

The stealth-based executions are the highlight of this game, however. Sneaking up behind a foe and trailing them with a melee weapon allows you to perform these executions. There are three degrees of executions, depending upon how long you have been setting up the kill. Each is more violent than the last: bats, cleavers, sickles, knives, and other assorted instruments are used to carry out the kills. These sequences are unquestionably the most violent things I've ever seen in a video game. I did learn a few things from these executions; for instance, a human head can be hit just as hard with a wooden bat as with an aluminum one. Also, hammers are not just for home repair. Enough said. Keep the kids away from this game.

The game is rendered using the same engine that was used in the Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City games, and the character models, textures, and game levels are on par with those. There is occasional slowdown in the heat of the action and there are definite clipping issues, but graphics are not the heart of this game. It is mood and style that drive Manhunt. For example, whenever you are being hunted, you can hear the individual members of the gangs taunting you and muttering sadistic things under their breath. The effect is usually comic, but it also serves to give each gang a distinct personality. The audio is terrific; although there is very little music, what there is fits the mood of the game. The voice acting is great and over-the-top, and every noise, whether focal or ambient, is extremely well done, unnerving you in moments of tension.

All in all, this game was a lot of fun; violent, profane, memorable and original. Just don't look for Disney to buy the movie rights

Great, but very violent.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I find that Rockstar Games has been the only game company that seems to take their games a little farther than other game designers. I'm talking about games like Grand Theft Auto, State of Emergency, etc... but none have ever crossed the line more than Manhunt. This game is one of the most violent, yet one of the funnest, I have ever laid my hands on.

The game starts of in Carcer City, and there are gangs everywhere that want you dead. You are James Earl Cash, an inmate at the state penitentiary. You are executed, only to be brought back to life by the director (voiced by Brian Cox, who does a good job at it) and he has sent gangs and thugs on you to kill you again. It's your job to escape Carcer City. Since he wants you dead, what he says in Cash's earpiece won't help much. So you should ignore him most of the time.

There are some pretty good things to like about Manhunt (notice the huge paragraph that you're reading right now). The graphics, for example, are even better than Grand Theft Auto and the animation looks almost realistic. The music and sounds are dreary to kinda add that urban-horror feel (they aren't bad, they're actually pretty good). Not only that, but the controls handle like butter, they are really smooth. The USB headset can be pretty fun to use because you can hear the director's comments in the earpiece and you can shout and cuss in the mouthpiece to call enemies toward you (there is no voice recognition, though). There is also a good selection of weapons to pick up from a simple garbage bag to a big chainsaw (I haven't beat the game yet so I don't know for a fact if you can get Piggsy's chainsaw). There are guns, too. Once you get one, the game gets more interesting. Rockstar also did a good job at the stealth part of Manhunt; you hold R1 to run and you can walk silently without the pressure of accidentally making a noise by running. Don't forget to use shadows for cover and hiding. Also, Stealth kills take place in a snuff film camera, where you horrifically kill a thug and blood gets on the lens (not that it's a good thing, I just wanted to point it out). Manhunt also has a good variety of missions to play and four bonus levels to unlock.

While all of this may be good, there are also some downs that might or might not bother people. The enemy A.I. is not smart, nor are they dumb. They fall for the stealth kill thing every time, even though they just saw their friend get nailed by you. Not only that, but the difficulty level is a little high, even on Fetish mode (the easiest difficulty in the game), it's mainly trial and error until you get it right but in the end, it's worth it. But still, I can only imagine the frustration I'll have to put up with in Hardcore mode (the hardest difficulty). Repeating a level over and over gets so annoying so quickly. The game's pretty sadistic, too. It might drive some audiences away.

Aside from these flaws, which are very few, Manhunt proves to be a very good game. It won't be a classic, but it sure as heck does NOT suck. This game is definitely worth your time if the sadism and the gruesome violence doesn't get to you. For those who get bothered by strong violence but want to play this anyway, don't say I didn't warn you.

p40dan is an idiot!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome!!!! This game is no different than Halo or Doom or Unreal in the fact that the whole goal is to KILL!!!! The concept of using the headset is awesome in the fact that you have to must be silent while playing or you will be killed.... unless you are baiting a future corpse. Rockstar is setting the table for what games should be for adults and people who realize that it is just a GAME!!!!!!!! Im tired of sucky Mario kiddy games.... if you dont like it....DONT buy the damn thing!!!!!!!

Hit or Miss

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The main reason I had for playing this game was because I was a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto games and was curios to see what Rockstar had come up with. I am not going to tell you what the game is about but rather what things are good and what things are bad about this game.
First, this game needs a lot of dedication on your part if you want to play it. You cannot just sit down and play for a few min. like in GTA. I found that my average time for each level was about 40 min.
Seconed, this game can get old very very fast. If you are not good at games where you have to be quiet and keep from being seen, than this game is not for you. It is one of the only games i have found where your enemies are as strong and ruthless as you are, so being hidden is important as hell.
Overall this game is hit or miss. You love it or you hate it. But plese rent it before you buy it. If you dont have the time or patience to play it, than dont waste your time

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games out at the moment and by far the most disturbing. You play a guy called James Cash - a convicted prisoner who gets "executed" but instead he is knocked out. He then has to go through "scenes" in which he murders people and is closer to finding out who did this to him.

This is quite scary too. On the opening movie you see a blood soaked guy with a hockey mask on in workmans clothes (the guy on the front of the box. There are a lot of weapons for you to use, even though a lot of them you can only use once and then dispose them. If you have for example a glass shard then depending on how long you have held down the 'X' button the more gruesome the murder is. The most gruesome is where Cash grabs a guy stabs the glass in both of his eyes and then slits his throat. His bloodied body falls to the ground in a puddle od blood. (Gruesome -- that was one of the least gruesome you will see in the game. The worst execution is probably hacking someones head off with a meat cleaver of bashing there skull in with a hammer).

Toe to toe combat is rather unchallenging though with only 2 buttons used ( the 'X' and square buttons) and enemies take a lot of health out of you but a big bottle of painkillers is nearly always nearby. Some of the enemies are really hard to kill though on the second scene (doorway to hell) an insane guy jumps out at you with a knife, this took me 4 attempts to kill him.

It's not just violence in the game the F words and the S words are said reguarlly throughout the game. Remember the guy with the sickle who said "I'm gonna f****** kill you, you p****".

The game is well done though with great graphice and creepy soundsI rate it 5 stars for the effort that was put in the game . The only flaws I can find with it are it's unchallenging toe to toe combat.

It's also the most violent game ever made. It's been banned in New Zealand. Restricted in Canada. Withdrawn from over 1000 stores in the United Kingdom. Germany aren't too impressed with this game either.

Manhunt: Hunt ROCKSTAR!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are expecting something something along the lines and quality of GTA:Vice City-

Forget it.

I don't have a problem with a violent, adult orientated game. Hey, it can be fun to play a homicidal maniac. But this game just gets repetitive and dull. Hide in shadows... Kill. Hide. Kill. You don't even have any real combos when you do have to fight an opponent. It gets old really fast.

I'm quite surprised that with the reputation that Rockstar has, they would release a game of this low quality. The graphics aren't that great, the action slow and tedious.

I'm glad I got this game as a gift instead of purchased- I would have been very angry at the loss of my money. If you must know about this game, RENT BEFORE YOU BUY!!

Look at me...I am a moron writing a review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 26
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even though I have never played this game, I am sure it will be great...blah blah...Rockstar puts out great games...blah blah...it sure looks bloody..blah blah...I love to write reviews for games I have never played...blah blah...signed, Fanboy.

(Please...wait until you actually play a game before you review it...some of these "reviews" were written a month before the game was released)

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