I finally picked this game up and have been playing it. And I can see how it could offend people.
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Originally posted by mrquackers
What disturbs me more are the people who say "yeah, it was shocking at first, but you get used to it." If you can be conditioned so fast to seeing a close-up of someone get their throat slit, I weep for you.
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Personally some of the "executions" still make me cringe even after seeing them done multiple times. I think younger kids who play it would probably get used to it better then I can. But I think the reason is that there is a disconnect between the game world and the real world for younger players. Meaning they play this game and say "ooh, cool, look at his head splatter" but then they don't stop and think that this would be a horrific thing in the real world.
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For the most part, the people I've seen raving about it are people who, going by the rating at least, shouldn't be playing it. Most adults find it either offensive or repetitive/boring.
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Well, I am an adult and I still think it's a well-crafted game. Yes it can become repetitive, but so far, for me, it has managed to avoid that problem for the most part.
I measure the success of a game with how well it puts you in a certain world and keeps you there. A game like "The Getaway" was great at putting you in the Lodon crime world, but it deffinitely became repetitive and boring during those long drives around the meticulously created London streets (whereas, the GTA series keeps you insterested despite the sometimes long drives it takes you to get to your next mission).
For me, Manhunt really puts you in this game as this psycho and keeps you there (keep in mind I haven't finished it). There are times when I'm playing and a guy I've been following discovers me and starts attacking me setting off a fight where I finally knock him to the ground and get much satisfaction from beating him until his head explodes.
Now is this the first time I've gotten pissed off playing a game? No.
But with this game it's different. It's disturbing to me when that happens. The game has successfully put me in this world as this psycho (no, not really, just as much as a video game can). And that is, in some twisted way the sick genius of Manhunt.