A brutal disgusting game showing the worst humanity has to offer...awesome?
This game just gets under my skin. The core concept alone is enough to turn me off with the game taking place inside a snuff film. That is terrifying especially when you consider those types of movies exist and they do get distributed on the dark web and such. They sound fucking horrible they are literally movies with real death and other horrible things for the enjoyment of disgusting people I have no desire to look into them (you shouldn’t either it’s not worth it)
But luckily this all works in manhunts favor. Everything great about this game from the story, atmosphere and gameplay all ties back from its concept. This is a intense stealth game literally requiring you to think like a killer stalking and sneaking up on your enemies. It’s both difficult and disturbing learning enemy patterns and trying to sneak up on enemies alone to kill them. This game doesn’t pull any punches if your not ready or if you don’t carefully plan out your killings you will die quickly. That’s because the core melee combat and shooting is incredibly clunky feeling even worse than gta 3. It’s a downside when you need to rely on it but for the most part the game encourages you to be stealthy.
This game really wants you to think like a slasher movie villain, hiding in the shadows and slowly studying the environments along with understanding the enemy locations. It’s a rewarding experience but never stops being disturbing because there really is no escape from the killings you have to take part in.
The atmosphere is bleak and unnerving. I really like the vhs aesthetic this game has with the menus and filters on the executions along with the cutscenes. It ties in with the underground snuff film story but also gives this game a vhs 80s horror film feel. The soundtrack is this dark ambient soundtrack with some industrial noise along with a lot of use of 80s synths and sometimes some guitars I think. Sounding like it takes a lot of inspiration from John Carpenter scores and various other slasher scores. It’s one of the greatest horror game soundtracks of all time.
The story is really interesting. The characters and gangs are all creepy in there own right and I feel like this game really tries to break down the type of people who like these types of movies. Essentially each gang is either a differnent type of degenerate or some type of person with mental issues. It’s this games way of exposing the awful things that happen in those movies not just with the violence but with the people who take part of them. Manhunt seems to want to expose the very thing the game is based on and it doesn’t hold back. Resulting in a unique horror experience.
strong 4/5
This game just gets under my skin. The core concept alone is enough to turn me off with the game taking place inside a snuff film. That is terrifying especially when you consider those types of movies exist and they do get distributed on the dark web and such. They sound fucking horrible they are literally movies with real death and other horrible things for the enjoyment of disgusting people I have no desire to look into them (you shouldn’t either it’s not worth it)
But luckily this all works in manhunts favor. Everything great about this game from the story, atmosphere and gameplay all ties back from its concept. This is a intense stealth game literally requiring you to think like a killer stalking and sneaking up on your enemies. It’s both difficult and disturbing learning enemy patterns and trying to sneak up on enemies alone to kill them. This game doesn’t pull any punches if your not ready or if you don’t carefully plan out your killings you will die quickly. That’s because the core melee combat and shooting is incredibly clunky feeling even worse than gta 3. It’s a downside when you need to rely on it but for the most part the game encourages you to be stealthy.
This game really wants you to think like a slasher movie villain, hiding in the shadows and slowly studying the environments along with understanding the enemy locations. It’s a rewarding experience but never stops being disturbing because there really is no escape from the killings you have to take part in.
The atmosphere is bleak and unnerving. I really like the vhs aesthetic this game has with the menus and filters on the executions along with the cutscenes. It ties in with the underground snuff film story but also gives this game a vhs 80s horror film feel. The soundtrack is this dark ambient soundtrack with some industrial noise along with a lot of use of 80s synths and sometimes some guitars I think. Sounding like it takes a lot of inspiration from John Carpenter scores and various other slasher scores. It’s one of the greatest horror game soundtracks of all time.
The story is really interesting. The characters and gangs are all creepy in there own right and I feel like this game really tries to break down the type of people who like these types of movies. Essentially each gang is either a differnent type of degenerate or some type of person with mental issues. It’s this games way of exposing the awful things that happen in those movies not just with the violence but with the people who take part of them. Manhunt seems to want to expose the very thing the game is based on and it doesn’t hold back. Resulting in a unique horror experience.
strong 4/5