Manhunt (series): Difference between revisions

'''''Manhunt''''' is a controversial [[Stealth Based Game]] series made by Rockstar Games. There are only two games in the series to date; they share gameplay mechanics and similar settings, but little else.

In ''Manhunt'', the player controls Cash, a criminal who is believed to have been executed; in fact, he was spared the death chamber by a man named Starkweather, a disgraced Hollywood director. Starkweather's most recent "independent" films are actually [[Snuff Film|Snuff Films]] that he sells on the black market -- and Cash is about to be [[Condemned Contestant|his newest star]]. Starkweather promises Cash that he will gain his freedom if he can make it out of the abandoned city he's been dropped into alive -- but there are trained thugs belonging to various gangs that are going to do everything they can to ensure Cash becomes another bloodstain on their boots. The gameplay mechanic revolves around "executions" (gruesome [[One-Hit Kill|One Hit Kills]]s the player can perform when sneaking up behind enemies); the longer you wait behind the enemy, the more drawn-out and elaborate the execution is...and if you perform enough high-level executions, your ranking at the end of the level is higher than if you hadn't.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: '''All'''Almost all of the characters, especially the protagonists. Piggsy in particular cuts his way through the Cerberus, completely clothes-less all the while as a sign of how deranged he is.

* [[But Not Too Black]] / [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Cash, if [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name|The Skinz']] motivation in hunting him is anything to go by.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Thought the first game was absurdly grim, drenched in urban decay, and brutal? The sequel, complete with a level named "Sexual Deviants" that channels ''[[Hostel]]'', is a giant [[Take That]] to you and everyone else who was apparently severely underestimating what Rockstar was capable of. Though having said that, you can have the hero choose not to give in to the man influencing him to do evil things.

* [[Death Byby Racism]]: It's possible to kill members of the Skinz midway through their white supremacist ranting.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: In ''Manhunt 2'', the [[Multiple Endings|Hidden Ending]] is only reached by players who go to great lengths to perform the more difficult "Violent" and "Gruesome" kills as opposed to the simpler "Hasty" kills. In it, {{spoiler|Leo defeats Daniel in the final level's [[Battle in Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]], taking over their body and starting his own string of serial murders.}}

* [[Enemy Chatter]]: Often as a setup for [[Death Byby Irony]].

* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: One of the bonus missions in the first game, unlocked after you finish all the scenes with a perfect score, has you revisiting the Carcer City Zoo to deal with a gang of psychos dressed up as monkeys.

* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: And you can scare other mooks with them.

* [[Rule 34]]: The first game's premise hinges upon this. As if to make sure the players were as squicked-out as possible, Starkweather repeatedly makes oblique (and [[In Love Withwith Your Carnage|not-so-oblique]]) references to how well he's responding to Cash's performance.

* [[Same Content, Different Rating]]: Most of what was cut to take the second game from AO to M was present in the first game.

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|Danny's two kids}}, no mention of them aside from "they're fine" shortly before the game's final moments, after that in the good ending {{spoiler|Daniel adopts a whole new life as David}}, basically implying that now {{spoiler|two children won't have their father, Daniel, back.}}

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