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'''''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
The second game casts you as an amnesiac scientist who wakes up in a mental asylum and is forced to escape with the aid of another inmate in order to unravel the government conspiracy that locked him up. It added jumping, gun, and environmental executions, but it's mostly notable for attracting far more attention than it had any right to because it was denied a rating in several countries over its graphically violent content (effectively making it impossible to sell). ''Manhunt 2'' arguably did the most damage to the pro-videogames movement in over a decade than any of its violent contemporaries. To add insult to injury, when it was finally released -- in a revised form that heavily censored the execution scenes -- reviewers across the board reported that [[So Okay It's Average|it really wasn't that great anyway]].
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*** Obviously, the hunters have no idea they're in a snuff film - or if they do, they presume they're meant to be the ''star'', not the victim. [[Xanatos Gambit|Either way, Starkweather gets plenty of bang for his buck.]]
* [[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 with 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.
** Although, the second game looks more realistic, and its executions are much more sadistic.
* [[Score Multiplier]]: Via the different kinds of execution.
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