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• Unusual new weapons, from glass shards and syringes to pens
• Execute your kills in 3 deadly threats - Hasty, Violent and Gruesome
• New environmental kills - Push an enemy face-first into a live fuse box, use telephone cords to strangle or drown an enemy in a toilet
• Use ambient sounds to your advantage - Let loud noises cover your trail, and learn to regulate breathing so you aren't heard in absolute silence
• Lamb can climb and crawl -- two things James Earl Cash couldn't do in the original
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.53 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.31 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Release Date:
| October 29, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 41 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| PlayStation2 | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
uncensoredNov 04, 2007
By Anonymous
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23 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 Saved by codebreaker and Skiller!Nov 09, 2007
By Justin
"Mad Man"
My life kinda sucks. I have a dead-end job even though I graduated valedictorian from college. I've never been lucky in love or good at making friends. I think about killing myself at least once a day. The only thing that keeps me going is art, looking forward to the next great horror movie or ultraviolent videogame. I loved manhunt the original and had been looking forward to a sequel ever since I beat it. I went to BestBuy on Halloween, paid my 29.99, and took what I expected to be an orgy of bloody beauty home with me. When I put it in and performed my first execution, however, I couldn't believe my eyes. What's with all this artistic bullspit, the bluriness and black and white and pixelation; I can't tell what the heck's even happening. I kept playing, hoping it would get better. I thought maybe once I injected myself with the drug Leo said would clear my head I would get to see the executions clearly. No such luck. So I went online to Amazon and read what other people were saying. CENSORED!? How? What? Rockstar would never do that, would they? Not the people who gave us GTA and Manhunt. Say it ain't so. But it was so. And so I thought, well, that's it. Time to run a bath and take the blade out of my box cutter from work. I figured I'd leave a note detailing how censorship led me to do myself in. I could see the news story. "A young man in Ohio killed himself when he discovered that the controversial videogame, Manhunt 2, was censored by its publisher. This senseless tragedy is causing many to wonder whether video games are violent enough. Several parent groups are demanding that Rockstar games release the original, uncensored version of the game for fear that others may be driven to suicide by the disappointment." I figured if my death could change the world, it would be greater than anything I could probably achieve in my life. But then I saw the post where someone was talking about a code that would uncensor it and something called codebreaker. I did some research and discovered that there was in fact such a product and code. I praised god, turned off the bath water, put my box cutter back together, and placed my order for codebreaker. It's three business days later now and I'm finally enjoying manhunt2 in all it's beautifully gory glory. Praise be to codebreaker and Skiller for saving my life.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Confusion ReignsNov 13, 2007
By LeviDevi "Bubman"
When I played the first Manhunt (way back when), I thoroughly enjoyed it. That game, much like its successor, received lots of negative exposure because of its "subject matter content" and overall violence. I, like most others who waited patiently for the sequel, plowed through yet more negative publicity; watched RockStar cancel its original release date for the game, and waded through all sorts of internet gossip about what had been done to the content of the game.
Manhunt (the original) is a far better game than Manhunt 2--and not becaue its gore factor was untouched. It was a better game, guys, because it had "soul." The characters were way more interesting, the writing was better and more creative, and the last stages were absolutely some of the creepiest I've ever encountered! My personal favorites were the Smileys (a tongue-in-cheek answer to Insane Clown Posse). I got killed so many times because I was laughing my butt off at some of the lines, e.g. "passing out before the main course...REALLY;" "well, I look divine? Why, thank you so much; it was just something I threw together;" and "My God; they're dropping like flies!"
In Manhunt 2, you get NO interesting characters. Instead, you get caricatures. It seems two people are involved in some sort of mind-altering experiment; the inmates riot, people escape, others are killed, and you try to retrace your footsteps to see what it all means. Along the way, you are urinated on, have feces thrown on you, you puke a lot, and you kill a lot. And that's about it. The big difference in Manhunt 2, is that even though the killings are much more grotesque than in the first game, you can't see any of them because of what RockStar had to do in order to get the game released. A "filter" has been installed and all you really get in the ability to HEAR what is happening to your victims. The controls are used differently, which I also didn't care for.
I do not blame RockStar for what it did; it simply did what it had to do in order to sell its product. I would suggest, however, that if there is a Manhunt 3, you see if you can't create characters that are more memorable; a storyline that is more than just killing; and have a main character your playing audience can feel something for.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Just replay the first one and save your moneyNov 11, 2007
By M. Hoagland
I loved the original manhunt, I have to admit it, I loved it. I though it was a sick and delightfully twisted game...no...art! It was spooky, gruesome, smart, intense, and totally enjoyable for someone like me. This one, like most sequels....sucks. It looks like the first, it plays like the first, it's in the same vein as the first, but it's the details where it falls apart, and I mean bad!
In the original, the levels were layed out where you were mostly stealth killing or getting into cover-based shootouts and sometimes a blend of the two, and the levels and AI were set up for that type of experience. This game has no clue what it wants to be! I tried to do mostly stealth kills, but sorry to say, you wind up just shooting most of em'. Speaking of AI though, the AI in this one is really bad!!! In the first one a hunter would inspect a brick, hitting a wall, or finding his dead buddy, but in Manhunt 2, they usually don't care, spoiling any opportunity to lure a hunter away from his friends to disfigure and break him. Thus, you will find it wayyy easier and much less frustrating to just snipe a guy from the shadows, turning a once great stealth platform into...a really lame shooter.
Another real problem, is the story. In place of a meager, bare bones type of plot, (Kill for sick director's pleasure and survival, then revenge) with a simple plot that has been made far too rushed and scattered. Gone is the simple and enjoyable kill from point A to point B plot, now, it's all twisted with "gotta find this guy, gotta find this chick, gotta figure this out....who am I, what happened" This doesn't directly affect the action, but somehow it makes for a very rushed and detached experience, hardly any of it worth remembering. Essentially they made a mountain out of a mole-hill, and it really just annoys more than anything. I had a hard time of following why I was at a place and found it much simpler in the original to just know I was on my way through to fight another type of gang for the director's joy, but now it's all finding out about a character I care nothing for in a story I care nothing for. Coupled with useless flashbacks and twists in the plot, I don't care enough to remember any of this game.
Even when the director in Manhunt bacame impatient, you were scolded by the talented Brian Cox, now an annoying nobody screeches at you which really disrupts the type of flow the first had. No velvety voice of a known and great actor, now your just getting bitched by some guy that kinda sounds like a cross between a bitchy girlfriend and Ray Liotta, but not nearly as cool as Ray Liotta, and almost as irritating as your ex-girlfriend.
Thinking about it, I doubt even if the stealth kill weren't blurred, this still wouldn't be anything nearly as fun as the first. When a you execute a hunter, at the point where you strike or shoot or stab or slash a guy, a fast and artsy blur jolts everything and the shade of everything goes negative for a bit. About 60% of the kill is plainly visible, but 40% is blurred. These kills are actually pretty good, and I especially like the firearm executions, but coupled with the filters and obstructions they had to program in, it really doesn't matter. Some of the environment kills are entertaining, but hardly worth the addition if they were at the cost of everything else I disliked.
In short people, everything in this game reminded me of Manhunt, it reminded me of how it's NOT...manhunt and certainly of how it's not as good as Manhunt. I will now sell this game, and fire up the original for the experience that this game failed miserably to acheive, and no doubt I will crack a sinister smile and bathe in the joy of hearing Brian Cox direct me to massacre a bunch of scumbags.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Hopes Will Be DashedNov 16, 2007
By Chris
"takethekman"
Maybe I'm sick, but I was really looking forward to this sequel; The first game, however violent and twisted it was(and it WAS!), it was also one of the most intense, heart-in-your-throat, challenging games I had played; There was dread around every corner; There was a feeling that your very own life was on the line; Plus, you actually cared about the story and fairly straight-forward premise: Escape w/your life and get the guy that did this to you. And you wanted to get him, too!!
Even though I had heard part 2 was unrelated character-wise, I put my faith in Rockstar; They rarely put out a bad title in my experience. The storyline sounded interesting and the settings/level ideas had some potential promise. I was excited to play, hoping for a game that was thrilling and tough. Instead it seems like a half-baked retread that is missing more than the violence it had to take out.
The lack of violence wasn't the troubling factor here; It was gruesome enough, although it's hard to believe anything could surpass the 1st one, which is still out there uncensored(as it should be...). It was more the horrible control scheme and poor camera angles that appeared during the most critical of times, like fights or flight. I died due more to not being able to tell where I was or which direction the punches were coming from than by lack of skill(not the best player, but not the worst either...). The story had some nice moments, some great cut scenes, and the interactive deaths were a nice touch. But too short and uninspired to me. I really didn't care about my character, what my goals were, the twist you see coming from a mile away, and the fact that I never really felt like I had to be fighting for my life. And w/so many great games out there to play, nowadays I have little patience for games that control poorly, esp. one from Rockstar. That just makes me sad.
They should have delayed this longer and made it right. I just expect more from them.
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