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Story mediocre, Not as gritty or dark
posted by devinS (GRESHAM, OR) Nov 5, 2007
Member since Sep 2003
11 out of 16 gamers (69%) found this review helpful
I would give manhunt 2 a weak 7 out of 10. I would almost give it a 6. Maybe im being a little too generous with the 7 rating.
When i first played the first manhunt game, i wasn't much for it. But when i rented it again, i liked it a lot more than the first time i played it. Just so i get that straight.
The story with manhunt 2 is very different from the first manhunt game. It has to do with insanity, split personalities. It kind of has a mix of the suffering and the fight club movie, and maybe a few other things. You play as a different character named daniel lam, and you can play as his friend leo. The story develops very quickly, and doesent mess around. You are pushed into doing flashback missions also. The levels seem to get longer and longer the more you go.
The thing that manhunt 2 misses, is the great feel the first one did. The first one was very dark and ultra gritty, creepy, grisly. It had a great essence of you being hunted by scumbag, ruthless disturbed bad guys. The first four or five levels of manhunt 2, kind of seemed to have the first manhunt deal going, with sexual deviants, porno shops, mental instituitions, torture dungeons. After the first four levels it looses its darkness grittyness like the first one, and becomes a by the numbers type of game, and you just go around and kill people and that's it.
The blurry camera trick effect during the executions did not bother me, you can still kind of see what's going on, and kind of see the blood and guts. It is pretty brutal and violent. The executions in manhunt 2 arent really gory, but they are bloody and brutal. The only time there is really something gory, is when you are shooting guns, people's heads explode and brains and blood splatters everywhere. There is basically one or two moments in the game where you are able to chop off heads during the executions, but that's about it, not much. The fight club type ending was messed up.
Overall, it was okay.
When i first played the first manhunt game, i wasn't much for it. But when i rented it again, i liked it a lot more than the first time i played it. Just so i get that straight.
The story with manhunt 2 is very different from the first manhunt game. It has to do with insanity, split personalities. It kind of has a mix of the suffering and the fight club movie, and maybe a few other things. You play as a different character named daniel lam, and you can play as his friend leo. The story develops very quickly, and doesent mess around. You are pushed into doing flashback missions also. The levels seem to get longer and longer the more you go.
The thing that manhunt 2 misses, is the great feel the first one did. The first one was very dark and ultra gritty, creepy, grisly. It had a great essence of you being hunted by scumbag, ruthless disturbed bad guys. The first four or five levels of manhunt 2, kind of seemed to have the first manhunt deal going, with sexual deviants, porno shops, mental instituitions, torture dungeons. After the first four levels it looses its darkness grittyness like the first one, and becomes a by the numbers type of game, and you just go around and kill people and that's it.
The blurry camera trick effect during the executions did not bother me, you can still kind of see what's going on, and kind of see the blood and guts. It is pretty brutal and violent. The executions in manhunt 2 arent really gory, but they are bloody and brutal. The only time there is really something gory, is when you are shooting guns, people's heads explode and brains and blood splatters everywhere. There is basically one or two moments in the game where you are able to chop off heads during the executions, but that's about it, not much. The fight club type ending was messed up.
Overall, it was okay.