Manhunt

The Good
This game manages to create an atmosphere of depravity and decadence that I never have seen before; I think it's a perfect combination of the stealth in the "Thief 3: Deadly Shadows" and the thrill of the "Silent Hill" series.

This is not a game for the light hearted, it has a lot of gore, violence, strong language, and fun. And hell yes, it's fun. A lot more than I first expected a priori.

This is the point: you are a scumbag, a dangerous one; in fact, you are the last scumbag they should have messed with, because you're going to give them hell for (oops, no spoilers). That's why they should have killed you when they had the opportunity, now it's too late.

The gameplay is fast and clean: just a few buttons are used: the tutorial is very simple and short: learn to hide and kill. The story is good! There is a reporter trying to disband the organization that has trapped you, so you both share common interests. All this could be very easy to be turned into a movie, but that's how Rockstar make their games, that's their seal of quality.

The Bad
Pretty much nothing, I liked it from the beginning to the end.

The Bottom Line
A very cinematographic adventure of depravity and sickness, with lots of blood and an unique atmosphere. For people without moral problems who can distinguish between game and reality.

The Good
The dark atmosphere of this game is just awesome, the characters are awesome, With gangs, to Starkweather, just awesome.

The controls are very well down, the ambient music helps set the mood, and it is just one of them games that you can never stop playing.

The Bad
The game was in my opinion way to short. I think that Rockstar could of done a longer game and they could of added more levels, more characters and what not.

The Bottom Line
A stealthy action game, where you play as James Earl Cash, a death row inmate who gets a second chance at life, and stars in a snuff film from director Lionel Starkweather, Starkweather is giving you another chance at life, if you can get by his obstacles, then you get to go free.

If you haven't checked this game out, I would highly recommend this game.

The Good
Almost nothing. The music / audio was good, I suppose. The voice acting teetered between good and hammed up. And believe me, I'm stretching with this. It's hard to come up with anything positive.

The Bad
Just about everything.

Graphics: sucks. Game play: sucks. Fighting: monotonous. Levels: tedious. The world is highly non-interactive. Physics engine: sucks. Windows and gas tanks are just about the only thing you can interact with (by breaking/blowing them up).

The only other games that I may like less than this would be the Blair Witch trilogy of games. Maybe. This may or may not be worse; at least the Blair Witch games have better graphics.

Oh, and to top it all off, it's one of those stupid "save point" games. You can't save your games until you hit certain points within the game. I hate that!

The Bottom Line
Some people focus on the violence in the game. Meh. I suppose there's some, but honestly, you're watching the same scenes over and over and over. You behead someone with a sword vs beheading them with a knife vs beheading them with a baseball bat. I pretty much got de-sensitized to the violence. Once that happens, there's really no point to the game. There is waaaaaaaay more gore and violence in a game like Doom 3. I really don't understand what people are yapping about with the gore in this game. Meh.

The game is boring. You pretty much sneak around slowly because fighting out in the open will get you killed quickly. It's a slow paced game.

The cursing? Meh. I love cursing, but this was too much. The great thing about cursing is that they're special words that you only use sparingly, so when you drop an F-bomb, it really means something. It accentuates a point. When the F-bomb is dropped on every other word you say, it kind of loses its potency. You get desensitized to it.

I really do NOT understand the other reviews -- I absolutely concur with the only other user submitted negative review by "ganjathief": I couldn't recommend this game to anyone. Not even Charles Manson.

If you have a 2 year old, perhaps you could use this game to put them to sleep because it is long and booooring. Booooring!

This game is boring and pointless. Keep away!