Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Rockstar Games EAN: 0710425213946 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Format: CD-ROM Label: Rockstar Games Manufacturer: Rockstar Games Model: GOD21394 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Rockstar Games Release Date: April 22, 2004 Sales Rank: 5076 Studio: Rockstar Games
Features:
Action/adventure horror game
Manhunt explores the depths of human depravity in a vicious, sadistic tale of urban horror
Continues Rockstar North's tradition of world-class gameplay with high production values and sardonic humor
Product Description: Manhunt highlights the sick and gruesome world of cold-blooded murderers. It's anintense, violent gaming experience, capturing the dark side of humanity more accurately than any game before. NOTE - This game has accurate&realistic depictions of violence and murder. It is not recommended for sensitive or younger game players.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Too hard and Unbalanced
The character you play is James Earl Cash,a man that was suppose to die on a electric chair,he escapes so every gang and group is everyone in the city is trying to find him.This game is fun when you first play it and then later on around the fourteenth level this game is way too difficult.This game has so many things wrong with how it plays,at least the violent stealth kills are cool,but besides that the game is lacking overall.In this game you mostly hide in the shadows and wait until they turn around and kill them with wire,plastic bag or shoot them in the head.The problem with this game is that when the character does not have a weapon he can not fight without losing a lot of health or everyone finding where you are at.Later on when you go against the swat you have to restart over and over because they outnumber you in better weapons and people.
When their is five enemies with machine guns against you that is unbalanced.Another problem is the radar,their could be an enemy standing right next to you and the radar will not show it and then you get seen.The game is about stealth kills in the beginning,but later on the stealth is replaced most of the time with guns,which is not fun when you are outnumbered.The health items are hidden and hard to find so you are likely have to start over it find where it is at,saving is not any better and you cannot save unless you get really far into the level before you get the save point tape item.
Manhunt is not good game to play and it wasn't for the extreme difficultly this game would be better.This game is mostly uses the hit and run tactic most of the time because the fighting is useless and you are outnumbered with guys with better weapons.This game overall is weak and unbalanced.
Pros: stealth kills, grainy videos and voice acting
Cons: cannot save without save hit tape, ridiculous amount of enemies at once with better weapons,can't see enemies on radar that are very close,frustrating difficulty that makes you crazy after you play the same level over and over
Rating: - For a particular type of gamer
Manhunt
This game is great, if you like stalking and killing other poor souls. It is very well made with a real sense of danger and risk. Very fun to play with the lights off and has great replayability as you are able to unlock various cheats, bonus minigames and artwork by playing on the harder difficulty level. Definitely worth the money. It's one of my absolute favorite games for PC.
Rating: - A mediocre steath game
The premise of Manhunt seems fresh enough: protagonist gets off death row, is dropped in a dangerous part of town, and is hunted by thugs while the cameras are rolling. On the good side, the game has convincing atmosphere, the gameplay mechanics work well, the cutscenes are good, and the voice acting is appropriate for the theme. Bad side: very repetitive gameplay, cheap tactics can get you out of most tight spots, and you never really feel connected to the character or his story. This is too bad, given that the developer (Rockstar) has made some truly amazing games (like Grand Theft Auto 3) using similar mechanics and themes.
Manhunt is pure and simple a stealth game. Cash, the protagonist, can fight hand-to-hand, but the game is intended to be placed in stealth mode. Some of the stealth killings are indeed intense and gruesome, but after about 5 missions they become less shocking. The game primarily consists of distracting an enemy, finding a hiding place, sneaking up behind him, and executing him. Wash, rinse, repeat. Some people are going to like this, and I must admit that the brutality of the kills is morbidly fascinating, at least at first. However, this kind of gameplay has been done much better in games such as Hitman. If you can stand the very repetitive nature of the gameplay, this might be worth checking out. Otherwise, try something like Hitman: Blood Money or one of the Splinter Cell games instead.
Pros
+Good idea for a game
+Some truly over-the-top executions
+Good voice acting
+Typical controls for this sort of game
Cons
-extremely repetitive after a while
-merely decent graphics
-not enough tension
-little character development
-the checkpoint save-game system
Rating: - Splonter Ceel
You take splinter cell, you take away the engaging story line, you take away complex level design, you take away character versatility, you take away advanced graphics, you take away objective variety, you got manhunt.
Zip, zap, zoop.
Rating: - Ladies and gentlemen, I give you James Earl Cash.
By this point, it's safe to say that Rockstar Games in general -- and Rockstar North in particular -- will be known for all time as the makers of the hugely popular Grand Theft Auto games. Nothing wrong with that; I happen to love GTA, and I probably always will. But that doesn't mean they can't do something different every once in a while.
And believe me, friend, this is something COMPLETELY different.
James Earl Cash, a death row inmate, is set to be executed...and he is. No, wait; he isn't. He's tranquilized by the corrupt staff and his life bought by a man named Lionel Starkweather, to be the "star" of the latest MANHUNT, a lethal bloodsport/snuff film where Cash must fight to survive against murderous gangs out to kill him on sight. So while it has shades of survival horror games like RESIDENT EVIL, or stealth games like METAL GEAR SOLID, this is a whole different beast. You can't survive a fight against massed numbers; you have to be quick, quiet, and utterly ruthless, and strike from the shadows.
Weapons are like nothing you've ever seen, ranging from the conventional to the brutal to the inconsequential. They're arranged in four color-coded categories. GREEN weapons are completely silent, one-handed affairs, but they're used up after a single use, and they include such everyday items as a plastic bag or a glass shard. YELLOW weapons are more useful as lures; you throw them to draw a hunter into a trap, and they include such simple things as bricks, bottles, or cans. BLUE weapons aren't as quiet as greens, but can be reused, and are more varied; a hand axe, a scythe, a crowbar, handguns, etc. RED weapons are two-handed, and are the most powerful and brutal in the game; metal baseball bats, rifles, you get the idea. You can only carry one of each class of weapon, so you'll have to choose carefully, depending on the situation.
Carcer City itself is a very different animal from the other cities in the GTA games. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be Detroit, but you can forget thinking you'll be on foot in a place similar to Liberty City. Carcer is a decaying metropolis; nearly every level takes place in a location that's been closed down and abandoned. City blocks, shopping malls, apartment complexes, you name it; they're all dark, shadowy, and rotting, sprayed with graffitti, festooned with garbage, but far from being empty. In fact, they're literally pulsing with menace and dread.
The gangs of hunters you'll face are psychotic in their own way, and barely human. Hoods, Skinz, Wardogs, Innocentz, Smileys...they're all more animal than man, and they need to be put down like the rabid dogs they are. Even the corrupt Carcer City police and Starkweather's personal guard, the Cerberus, will be lining up against you. And with the weapons you'll acquire, you'll be able to take them down in some very imaginative and gruesome ways.
That's not to say the game doesn't have its occasional flaws, however. One of the most glaring being: precisely what was it Cash did that got him on death row? Did he actually do it, or was he set up by Starkweather? Not knowing these things made it a little harder for me to be able to sympathize with him, unlike Tommy Vercetti or Carl Johnson. In fact, Cash is such a walking cypher that he's only a few steps above the mute protagonist of GTA3; he actually speaks, and you know his name, but that's about it. And while one mission introduces two men and two women identified as his family, they're never named, and we never learn just HOW they're related to him. Are they his brothers and sisters? Cousins? We never know.
But in spite of all that, this is still a harrowing, thrilling game. It's long been a habit of mine to compare a game to movies I find similar if I were to explain it to someone else. And in this case, I'd have to say if you took the blighted urban landscape of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the death-as-a-game-show aspect of THE RUNNING MAN, the gangs of human jackals from THE WARRIORS, the depths of human depravity you'd find in SAW, and combined it all with the absolute, inhuman garbage you'd find on most of today's reality TV game shows, you'd find MANHUNT staring right back at you just seconds before it plunges a glass shard into your eyes.
- Too hard and Unbalanced 
- For a particular type of gamer
- A mediocre steath game
