@bybeach: I think my favorite was the guy who thought you had stolen his shoes. I've been trying to get hold of his lines for ages, think they would make a good, slightly fucking up, ringtone lol

Manhunt passed the legit point for me. I was surprised how grim it was and hyper real.. The only thing I resented was in the Insane Asylum being forced to yellow or red for harder-core kills. On the other hand I discovered one of my fav. characters, least for the time, Drugwhore. I also enjoyed how it was a stealth game in the 1st half, and a shooter in the second. I liked the shooter once you understood the cover mechanic..sort of like being a swinging door, kind of weird. And yeah...piggsy.

I did try to play it a second time, and was put off by the graphics. Attitude on my part maybe, would try again. And I would argue that it is a true game, just rather adult..you know that term. From what I read, they really whored manhunt 2 and lost veracity for for the manhunt name by it...

Manhunt is fucking terrifying.

@Grissefar said:

I still remember the level where you meet Piggsy, that was some scary shit. Really dark, you can always hear the chainsaw but you don't know where he is until it's too late.

That attic is one of the most terrifying locations in all of videogame history.

One of my favorite games still to this day.

I still remember the level where you meet Piggsy, that was some scary shit. Really dark, you can always hear the chainsaw but you don't know where he is until it's too late.

Manhunt is one of the grimiest games ever and I love it for that.

Great to see this series making a come-back! I'd recently found myself wondering how your endeavour was going, and now I know!

I played Manhunt last year, and enjoyed the experience, but both the stealth and shooting segments felt a bit lacking to me. The stealth felt clunky and stilted more often than not, and the gunplay became frustrating due to Cash frequently breaking cover. The fact that the game more or less completely abandoned the former in favour of the latter during its last third also bothered me, because it lost a lot of what made the first two thirds so tense and atmospheric, not to mention caused some really frustrating difficulty spikes during the endgame. Like I said, I did enjoy Manhunt, especially the snuff film-style presentation which is incredible. I just felt like there was a lot of scope for refinement in terms of its gameplay.

How do you sneak up on somebody with a fucking chainsaw?

I have always wanted to try this game though. Good blog post.

Manhunt came out when I was about 15 and I was itching to play it.  Obviously as you can see from the big, red 18 sticker on the box art above, buying it wasn't going to be easy. To make things even more difficult I had to wait until the pc version of the game came out and just as it did there was a fairly major  incident in the UK involving the game. I wont go into details as its doesn't really relate to what I'm going to talk about but the game became very difficult to get hold of. Eventually I found a copy at an HMV and managed to buy it after convincing the  manager that, while I didn't have any ID with me, I did have a checkbook in my name which you can only get once you're 18. That was of course bullshit and it made getting hold of a copy of Manhunt feel dirty and like something I would get in trouble for, which felt GREAT!!!