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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?
From what they've revealed so far, it does at least make me wonder what the main character would be on death row for. Of course, any character in the GTA games would probably go straight to death row if caught (or just life in prison, depending on the state's position on capital punishment), so it's not too hard to imagine. The whole premise of the game sounds a bit shaky, though - I'm not involved in the legal system, but I seriously doubt that there would be any way to "fake" a lethal injection.
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Yep. And this '3' is quite disturbing, indeed.
In most of fairy tales, things are done or repeated 3 times. (Classic examples are in the three little pigs, or the three bears, which even have the magic three in the title).
I wonder where that 3 come from. Is it because those tales are what mentaly format us, or is it something deeper ?
That's the problem with making a game where your character is free to do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING. It's hard to make another game with anything new to do.
Maybe your character can eat his own arm to survive. Now, that would be cool.
Damn, I was hoping that someone was creating a modern version of Robinson's Requiem. That game was a true survival game, where your spaceship crashes on an earth-like planet. You then have to eek out a living, survive the elements, etc... The game was very detailed, medically, and you sometimes had to resort to things like self amputation of limbs in order to survive.
I was around 12 years old when I played that game. I would always start the game off by amputating both legs. Made movement really difficult. ANyways, that game was all about experimentation.u