The game immediately starts with a flashing montage of action at the Dixmor Insane Asylum. This is obviously a place that's gone horribly wrong, with doctors and orderlies preferring to beat the patients rather than treat them and their mental issues. Of course, this treatment can only go so far before karma retributively strikes back, and one dark night, a power outage strikes the asylum, resulting in the release of the inmates. The staff and administration is quickly overrun as the inmates seek their revenge against their caretakers, with chaos striking every hallway and cell. Without explaining any further backstory or introductions, you're suddenly introduced to the two main characters, Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper. While this initial meeting is somewhat disorienting, it's rather apparent that this is intentional to fit with the situation Danny and Leo find themselves in, and adds to the atmosphere of the first level. I say first level, because you don't remain on the grounds of the asylum for very long. In fact, the asylum is much more of a training stage, where you learn most of the game's mechanics, such as learning the ins and outs of the radar system, alert status of possible enemies and stealth kills. Stealth is still by far the most important facet of the game, since your characters aren't tanks or fully capable of holding their own in a one on one fight. As a result, you'll need to stick to the shadows and time your attacks on your targets when they don't expect it, splitting up packs of enemies and preying on the unsuspecting as soon as possible. Much of this is handled through the use of sound, either by throwing objects to draw someone's attention to a location so you can strike with their back turned, or using a USB headset to make noises to draw them from their friends. However, in the first game, a player could distract some enemies and immediately head into the shadows for safety. That's not nearly as easy to pull off in Manhunt 2, thanks to the introduction of quick time events that are triggered by searching hunters in your general vicinity. Depending on how hard the hunters are looking for you, you will find a combination of buttons that will pop up on the screen that you'll need to input quickly to avoid detection. If you fail, you'll immediately get pulled out of the shadows by the enemy, and you can expect a fierce throttling. If you succeed, however, they'll be completely oblivious to your presence, and you can potentially go about eliminating them in a number of ways. Rockstar also cut out the executions so it has no gore, and the whole screen blurs up in a fuzz, so that is a big letdown from the original, because I mean, who doesn't have a disgusting urge to take your anger out on someone with something from thier bare hands to a shotgun? I know I do. Again, like the first game, players can finish off enemies along three separate levels based on how long you wait to strike. You can pull off a Hasty kill if you want to quickly eliminate a hunter that's close to you, but if you wait even longer, you can trigger Violent or even Gruesome kills. As you go up in the level of attack, the triggered animation for each lasts a bit longer, so some of the Gruesome kills will easily last for more than five seconds, while Hasty kills are sometimes over in one or two. However, you are no longer restricted to using your weapons to kill hunters. In Manhunt 2, you can take out enemies with environmental kills, setting them on fire, smashing them with manhole covers or closing them into iron maidens. You can even perform leaping kills from heights upon hunters below you, frequently bashing their skulls in on the landing. Finally, as players eventually gain access to firearms, players can now perform gun executions on enemies. This game totaly engages you in mental and physical combat, slipping in stealth while you're busy hiding. Unfortunately, some of these new tactics also wind up being the downfall for the en
1 of 3 found this review helpful.
Overall rating
5/ 5
Gameplay
4/ 5
Graphics
5/ 5
Sound
5/ 5
limbella123
Awesome
PostedMarch 3, 2010
This is the perfect game if you like killing games,It is so fun and addictive. You will feel like playing for ever.Anyway the story line is very interesting, and entertaining.The graphics are great and the controls are easy to learn. And i bought this game about two years ago and it took me about 3 months to finish it. I never felt like stopping.The sound is great the graphics are great the story line is great.And you get to kill a lot of people, and if you like games with killing this is the perfect game for you. you can have fun while your doing what you love to do.I love the game but if you don't like Gorey and bloody games you shouldn't play this game. And if you don't like cursing you shouldn't play this game but besides that this is the perfect game for you.
1 of 2 found this review helpful.
Overall rating
4/ 5
Gameplay
4/ 5
Graphics
4/ 5
Sound
5/ 5
violence
Intense, and Grotesce
PostedApril 24, 2009
This game was amazing. It had a long, and suspenceful storyline, and was terrifying. This game gave me nightmares. It was like a horrer movie that you played. my favorite part was the exicutions. you can sneak up behind people and kill them in the most violent ways you can think of. My personal favorite was when you can sneak up behind someone and soffocate them with a plastic bag. you can also jump off of rooftops and attack people. Some of the exicutions are really clever. In one level, you are carrying around a gas can for the whole level, and if there is an enemy around the corner, you can step back, pour a puddle of gas onto the ground, go hide in a corner, and throw a can or bottle near the puddle. The guard will hear it and walk over to the puddle of gas. You can then sneak up behing him and light the gas on fire and burn him to death. this is a game that you just dont want to put down. there are a lot of really chalenging levels that you just want to give up on, but you dont because you are having too much fun.This game is definately worth buying.
Overall rating
5/ 5
Gameplay
5/ 5
Graphics
4/ 5
Sound
4/ 5
.Aaron.
This game is just about all you could ask for
PostedMay 18, 2008
This game has it all folks. It has gore, violence, edge-of-your-seat suspense and a long story mode. The only thing that I would say hurts this game is it was censored, but yeah, the screen just turns red so that isn't even really too bad. Also the graphics are just about the same as the first Manhunt which doesn't really hurt it too bad. On a major plus side this game does introduce a lot of new features to the Manhunt series which make it worthwhile to purchase even if you already own the original. It gives you the option to do environmental kills which is a great addition to the game, and also it puts in execution kills for ALL of the guns. But if you can handle a little censorship and some alright graphics and can handle the brutality of this game, I would for sure pick a copy up since it will have you playing it for days.
