What did undermine one of the games vaunted features however, is the censorship.
The game is at times seemingly going for sensationalism, but that doesn’t completely undermine it.
MANHUNT 2 KILLS MOVIE
When a movie contains a scene that makes me feel voyeuristic, that is meant to make me feel voyeuristic or uncomfortable, that isn’t something that makes me not want to watch it. That to me isn’t something to criticize the game for. Playing the game made me feel guilty and yet I wanted to keep playing.
You don’t know if the people you think are trying to kill you, that you say you’re just killing in defense, are really trying to kill you.Ī lot of the people you kill, seem like bad people, and they probably were, but as the game plays on, and you saunter through strip joints and brothels and god knows what else, you do find yourself questioning if these people deserve to die horribly just because they’re trying to catch you or because they’re some kind of perverted sexual deviant themselves. Interactivity puts a whole new spin on trying to get inside the mind of a clinical psychopath, as many great horror movies have… and it really adds a new layer to it. Are you really the deranged psychopath you’re accused of being, and if you aren’t, why are you killing all these people so horribly? Is it because you’re being pressured into it by someone who appears to be your friend or is there much more too it? Are you as a player absolved of guilt on the occasions you play as the character who is unremorseful about killing? You don’t remember why you were there… and trying to figure that out, while continuing to evade capture drives the plot. You start the game escaping from a mental asylum, egged on in your escape and killing by someone that appears to be another patient. As much as people laugh at the notion that something like Manhunt 2 is anything other than a sick exercise in killing, or that any attempt at justifying that sick killing with a story is just an excuse, there really is something valid going on here.
MANHUNT 2 KILLS SERIAL
It isn’t going to make you want to be a psychopath, but it does give you a glimpse at what it might be like to see the world in the disturbing and twisted way that a serial killer might.Īgain, is it the best possible execution of that concept? No it isn’t… but right now it’s the only interactive execution of that concept. Of a person who doesn’t have a complete grasp on reality. It isn’t glorifying violence… it is asking you to walk a few hours in the mind of a sick person. It’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer the game. The only thing offensive to me is that my home country of Britain is one of the ones refusing to release even this censored version. Granted, that wasn’t the intention of the developers, and they were unquestionably restrained in that regard (and in a way that directly hurts the gameplay, at least on the Wii), but what we are presented with is not more violent than any other game, nor is its content more morally reprehensible than any other game.
In its current form Manhunt 2 is less violent than a lot of games on the market. On pretty much every metric you usually use to review a game, presentation, sound, graphics, gameplay, it’s average and yet if there is one thing that Manhunt 2 isn’t, it’s average.Įveryone reading this review knows by now that Manhunt 2 is one of the most controversial games ever released. It’s incredibly difficult to put a score on a title like Manhunt 2.
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The graphics, aren’t bad either… but again they’re certainly nothing to write home about (though I will have to admit to being impressed by how close the PSP version looked to the PS2 and Wii versions of the game). It’s the exact sort of title that under normal circumstances I’d never have finished. The gameplay, usually the crucial thing in any title, isn’t bad… but you wouldn’t want to sit and play this title based on its gameplay alone.
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