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Manhunt - Rockstar's Secret Weapon?
Thanks to Shacknews for pointing to a Gamers.com report with the first solid details about Rockstar North's PS2 'survival horror' title, Manhunt. This allegedly disturbing and voyeuristic, long in development game is from the developers of Grand Theft Auto, and has been kept about as secret as it's possible to. But according to this new information in a UK magazine, it's "a wholly realistic survival horror game, in which the player assumes the role of an inmate on death row whose lethal injection is faked, and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent urban warfare game arranged for the amusement of its wealthy creator. Your goal is to escape the city... populated by roving armed gangs." Are Rockstar keeping this quiet to get the game onto shelves unbanned, or is the stealth marketing just a publicity ploy?
You have to convince the distributors and store chains to sell the game in the first place, you know. And when considering if to sell a game or not, their major concern is marketing budget. Sad but true.
Not meaning to troll, but this sounds a lot like they are trying to reuse the story from either "The Most Dangerous Game" or "The Running Man".
...whose lethal injection is faked, and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent urban warfare game arranged for the amusement of its wealthy creator. Your goal is to escape the city... populated by roving armed gangs.
Sounds like the same game as GTA, but with a different way of getting on the street, and a different way of getting off... but the middle could be exactly the same.
Why do they even bother? All they do is endlessly promote games that may not be any good anyway.
/. and R* will keep to what they are good at, making some of the best games on the planet.
Maybe you have not been paying attention, so let me refresh your memoriy. GTA3, Vice City, Max Payne, Midnight Club 2, are these the games which 'may not be any good?'
Keep to what your good at, trolling on