The Duke On "Manhunt" For The PC. - Page 3

Technology is wonderful, is what I mean. Allows you to hear fuck-words in virtually every medium.

But back to the Manhunt. What you need to do is hide in shadows etc and then sneak out and kill folks by suffocating them with a plastic bag, or slitting their throats with wire, or scalping them with a machete, or smacking them upside the jaw with the blunt end of a hammer and then crushing the other side into their heads. Real thought-provoking stuff. Plenty of head-juice for you to be getting on with.

I'm only about half way through the thing, but I feel I can contemplate putting those bastard memories out of my head with regards that whore of a franchise-filler I mentioned earlier. The thrill of hiding in the corner and then running out to blast a motherfucker in the back of the head with a sawn-off shotgun, well, that's hard to beat, especially when you're rewarded with a gaping hole in the back of the recipient's skull and half of their jaw hanging off.

Obviously, some folks are gonna say about how violent and deeply immoral this is, but really, the only difference between this and, say, Centipede, as far as violence goes, is the improved graphics. Remember Space Invaders? What was that all about? Blasting the hell out of some poor civilisation maybe just wants to ask the way to Pluto. No context, no fuck-words, no nothing, just blowing the hell out of ET's we don't know nothing about. Haven't these pixellated individuals got families and so on? What about the baby ET's that grow up with the knowledge that their daddy was gunned down by some humanoid motherfucker? All that's gonna do is breed more intergalactic hatred.

Jesus Christ, man, don't be so fucking barbaric with regards our extra-terrestrial brethren.

According to the folks on the web-net forums, individuals who know a thing or two about the Tomb Raiding and Nuking Dukem's and so on, this Manhunt fits into the category of Stealth, or possibly Survival Horror. What this means, as far as I can gather, is that there's lots and lots of hiding in shadows, but also plenty of scalping folks and so on, and it's also incredibly frightening. Certain parts are guaranteed to get you in all of a tizzy, like when you inadvertently hit a trashcan a kick and alert a group of clown-faced reprobates as to your whereabouts.

Even the packaging is fantastic, with the side of the box decked out with a blank video label, like as if it were one of those flicks about The Cannibals What Ate London or whatever, and the instruction booklet is designed like a snuff film mail-order catalogue.

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