- Publisher: Rockstar Games
- Release Date: Apr 20, 2004
- Also On: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4
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Manhunt isn't an essential game - it has a pernickety camera, repetitive gameplay and often-frustrating real-time combat. Yet, it also has a unique atmosphere, tense moments and stylish, visceral videotaped kill cut-scenes - if you can stomach the violence. Now, where's that cheese wire?
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Its simplistic arcade gameplay simply doesn’t cut the mustard on the birthplace of stealth gaming, and its only lasting effect will be a strange desire for the involving, story-driven gameplay of the king: "Thief."
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Like a creepy, surly teenager on his first day of high school, this game simply tries too hard to be cool and achieves very little of what it sets out to accomplish.
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Manhunt’s good stealth gameplay and immersive atmosphere are weighed down heavily by its questionable premise, brutal violence, and generally slimy feel.
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It’s for the most part far too easy, and that tends to dilute any tension that builds up.
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Gory and pointless – just one more tedious stealth game.
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Computer Gaming WorldThere's never a sense that you could make your way through a level based purely on your own sense of ingenuity and improvisation. [July 2004, p.76]
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After you see through its repetitive gameplay, gimmicky execution scenes, and tiresome, self-consciously obscene dialogue, there isn't much left. Manhunt's gameplay isn't deep or varied enough to match up to the alternatives on any platform.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 136 out of 205
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Mixed: 52 out of 205
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Negative: 17 out of 205
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Mar 9, 2012
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LouiePFeb 3, 2010
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Jul 28, 2013