just a bit of the old ultraviolence…a little weighs a ton!
so…in contrast to Erika’s gift to me of Peter and the Wolf, yesterday I got Manhunt. Nothing like a “man gets drugged and kidnapped, and set loose in a town full of blood thirsty gang, all while being videotaped by a sadistic bastard, ala the movie The Running Man” game to either make you a psychopath, give you insomnia, or put you at ease — whatever floats your boat.
This is the most violent game that I’ve ever played. I’m not offended by that, but it’s just suprizing. Normally, when someone makes a statement like “most violent” it falls short of the goal for most people. This game aims to please (or nauseate).
In the first three levels, which are really like training, I’ve faced no less than 25 gang members, having to kill them in a variety of ways. I’ve suffocated them with plastic bags, stabbed them with shards of glass (always about the neck and face), beaten them with a baseball bat and a crowbar. The latter actually allowed me to break open a man’s skull — this was apparent when I picked up the dead body and there was only half a head.
Throughout the game the sadistic director taunts you through your headset, and if you make any noise, either as the character, or via the microphone on the headset, it attracts the attention of the friendly men who are hunting you.
Here are a few of the gang members that you face (they’re not all skulls and zombie-like…they are a bunch of Friday-the-13th-Jason looking guys, as well as hooded gangs.)
And to think, when I play Madden 2004 too much I see football games when I close my eyes…