GTA Creators Push Limits With Manhunt

Posted by simoniker on Saturday August 23, 2003 @09:06PM from the a-real-state-of-emergency dept.

Thanks to IGN PS2 for a new, screenshot-toting preview of Manhunt, the forthcoming "brutal urban videogame" produced by the developers of the Grand Theft Auto series. This previously secretive, potentially controversial title starts you, completely defenseless in Carcer City, where 'the Director' has sprung you from Death Row and "...populated [the city] with psychopathic gangs hired for the sole purpose of finding and slaughtering" the player. The piece muses that this "third-person perspective stealth game" seems to be "...much darker, more disturbing... than Grand Theft Auto, which offered seasoned comic humor and parody to counter the bloodshed and chaos."

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Yawn by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-23 21:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Why don't they push the limits by creating a multiplayer vice city ?
Re:this really sounds like a dumb idea. by Newrad · 2003-08-24 03:17 · Score: 0, Troll

You seem like a person who only bought GTAIII/Vice City simply because everyone else did and you didn't want to be left out. You only liked it because you could progress through the game without having to kill every civillian and commit hate crimes. You only played the games to be in the "in crowd." I doubt you even liked the killing part in the missions.

Some people play games like this to relieve stress and pretend that the person they are violently beating is their boss or someone they hate (which can be made to look like the person with some propper modding.)