The controls are also diabolically loose. As long as someone's dead and someone's distracted, you will complete the level. Until you acquire firearms, Manhunt 2 consists of creating a distraction and killing the guard, or killing the guard as a distraction or any other variation of those two key elements. Nearly every situation has a set method for completion, and the game punishes you mercilessly if you deviate from the plan. I realize it's meant to be one man on the run with only his wits and a plastic bag to help him, but it wouldn't kill Rockstar to mix up the gameplay a little bit. In recent years, stealth games have begun giving the gamer a larger scope of gameplay, with multiple ways to accomplish objectives based on available items or surrounding terrain. All of this can be negated by a sudden switch in camera focus that sends your view flying into the wall and makes you completely unaware that your former prey is now grinding your head into the floor. The stealth portions play out well, and the seconds before a kill can be excruciatingly tense as you wait for a red arrow to appear, signifying that the enemy knows you're there, and it's time to fight or flee.
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Gameplay is essentially the same here as in the original Manhunt, but since this is the PSP version, you have even less control over the camera angle.
The camera becomes a real problem when you need to keep Danny running in the same direction to evade enemies changing directions while armed psychopaths are chasing you down is an even more difficult task. The camera and control system already make Danny handle like octopus on roller skates, so introducing pitched gun battles into an already difficult control system leads to frustration and the possible smashing of your PSP. The main problem starts when the game bizarrely goes down the action path, and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto roots start to show. Admittedly, this may get tiresome after a while, and the utter ridiculousness of the sex club level may make some gamers switch off the game right there and then, but for a while, you can relieve a lot of stress by bludgeoning people with a baseball bat. There was an odd satisfaction in dispatching an enemy with a seemingly random object and then stashing his body in the shadows, and this is also true in Manhunt 2, the lack of variety in gameplay aside. You wouldn't play this game for the story, but the simple fun of the original Manhunt was generated by the creative methods used to kill the mentally unstable enemies who hunted you at every corner. The moral struggle that Rockstar attempts to instill in the antihero protagonist never really emerges, and as such, the story falls on its face a bit. The characterization of Danny is also puzzling he's portrayed as a reluctant participant in these events, ultimately egged on by his mysterious companion Leo Kasper (who becomes playable for certain missions), but he still undertakes the gruesome task of killing multiple people without much hesitation. The story itself is fairly thin and mainly serves to connect the repetitive sequences where you hide behind a wall, make a noise to distract a guard and then maim him while his back is turned. Needless to say, the solution to all of these problems involves butchering countless people.
He wants to find out why he was committed, what happened to him while he was there and bring those responsible to justice. In Manhunt 2, you play as Danny Lamb, a troubled escapee of a mental asylum. Even though Rockstar has slightly toned down this iteration by scrambling the screen during the visceral death scenes, it seems as though they've purposefully tried to rile up these opposition groups in order to create publicity for a rather mediocre title. Any game that has you slicing and dicing enemies with razor wire and glass shards doesn't promote the idea that video games are harmless forms of entertainment. Even though I would be one of the first to denounce right-wing parental groups and the ever-present Jack Thompson as sensationalist scaremongers, Manhunt 2's debut on the PSP is fairly difficult to defend. It's been said that simply uttering the words Manhunt into a mirror three times makes you a Satanist, and that Rockstar is in league with Beelzebub.
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