Manhunt 2 Details Emerge

Manhunt 2 to be a lot gorier than its predecessor.

Avinash Bali|Mar 06, 2007, 15:01:05 IST

I loved Manhunt… Yeah, I agree it was a sick game that went a bit overboard with the shock value but there’s something satisfying about hacking off a guy’s head with a machete or gouging his eyes out with a shard of glass. And now if British magazine OPM is to be believed, Rockstar is set to raise the gore bar for Manhunt 2 to new levels; take a look at what you can expect in this highly awaited sequel…

The Director, gangs, CCTV cameras and death row dodger, James Earl Cash, from the first Manhunt won't play a part.
Manhunt 2 's main character, scientist Dr Daniel Lamb, is locked in a private asylum by The Project - shady backers of a top secret drugs-based weapons program that Lamb was working on.
After breaking out of the asylum, Daniel Lamb goes on the run with psychotic inmate Leo Kasper, who is happy to coach Lamb on the brutal art of violence.
Like the first Manhunt, kills are executed in three deadly shades - Hasty, Violent and Gruesome.
Environmental kills have been introduced (push an enemy face first into a live fuse box, for example)
Loud ambient noises can be exploited by Lamb to drown out his own crashing about.
When hiding in shadows, if an enemy comes close the player will sometimes have to copy a button combo in order to regulate Lamb's breathing and ensure that he remains undetected.
Lamb can climb and crawl - two moves that Manhunt's James Earl Cash couldn't do.
Guns can be used for stealth kills.

But wait, there's more; "Later in the game, a member of The Project has both his plums and a pair of vertebrae removed with a pair of pliers."

Ouuuuuuuuuuuch!!!

By Avinash Bali

Nash, as he prefers being called, woke up to the wonders of gaming rather late but don't bring that up around him. It's a touchy subject. A self confessed Battlefield veteran, Nash spent a good part of 2010 on the Steam Battlefield - with Bad Company (see what we did there?). He has a zero tolerance policy towards RTS games but is currently showing an interest by picking up and moving people - who he refers to as units - in the office. Thank God he's not that enthusiastic about Angry Birds or we'd be seeing women flying all over the place. Bali... Bali, put the receptionist down now.