Product Description

An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong. Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper are the only surviving subjects. The Pickman Project will stop at nothing to hunt them down and stop the truth from getting out.
Demented screams echo around the dank asylum that has caged you for the last six years. You open your eyes. A white-coated body slumps to the floor through your shaking hands. A bloody syringe slips from your arm. Waves of confusion and paranoia crash over you. You have no idea who you are or how you got here.

The door to your cell is open. One choice. One chance. They took your life. Time to take it back.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1766 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Rockstar Games
• Released on: 2008-10-31
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review

Considering the furore that greeted the release of the first game it’s a genuine surprise to see it get a sequel, especially one as uncompromising as this. However unpleasant the original was though there was no denying it was an excellent game and one of the most original and effective stealth-based titles of recent years. The story in the sequel is at least slightly less disturbing than before, as the snuff movie theme of the first game is ditched in favour of you escaping from a mysterious research facility.

The gameplay is more familiar, as your limited access to heavy weaponry and the large number of enemies out to get you mean that you have to spend much of the time creeping about in the shadows. It gets to the point where you have to shoot out lights to increase the gloom and have to regulate your breathing when an enemy is nearby – to ensure you aren’t spotted. The stealth aspects work just as well as Metal Gear or any of its progeny, the difference here being that hiding isn’t an occasional novelty or plot device but the only way to survive the game.

Of course what Manhunt is most famous for is the violence and that has not been toned down in any way as you use everything from a ball point pen to a plastic bag to perform some of the most gruesome attacks in gaming. There are also new environmental kills, similar to those in THQ’s The Punisher, where you can drown enemies in a toilet or strangle them with telephone cord. It’s not a game for the faint of heart, but for those that can stomach it there’s plenty of gameplay here amongst the gore.
Harrison Dent

Manufacturer's Description
An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong.  Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper are the only surviving subjects.  The Pickman Project will stop at nothing to hunt them down and stop the truth from getting out.

Demented screams echo around the dank asylum that has caged you for the last six years.  You open your eyes.  A white-coated body slumps to the floor through your shaking hands.  A bloody syringe slips from your arm.  Waves of confusion and paranoia crash over you.  You have no idea who you are or how you got here.

The door to your cell is open.  One choice.  One chance.  They took your life.  Time to take it back.

Customer Reviews

A great sequel
You will have heard about the controversy that this game has provoked, and therefore you will know that it is extremely violent and pretty brutal. Let me tell you that even though the executions have been blurred with a high contrast filter, it does not obscure what is going on. You can see pretty much everything, unless you are a dark place...in which case you cant see anyway. Seriously, the game is VERY violent and VERY bloody. The gameplay is exactly like the original, and works extremely well and the new weapons and characters make the experience more fun. Weapons such as the sledgehammer and pliers are new to this game and the pen which is exclusive to the wii version. The motion controls are excellent. They are very intuitive and when you are required to (during an execution) thrust a crowbar into a neck and yank it up and then hack them on the ground with for good measure, it is disturbing but (gulp) feels freat. The movements are sensitive and work unless you do it wrong. Shooting is easy and reminds me of resident evil 4.
Graphics are ok, not brilliant but pretty good. Everything is through a grainy CCTV filter anyway. The sound is incredible, the blood splatterings and screaming, brilliant. And the hunters say some disturbing and funny things to try and fush you out. My only gripe is the AI of the hunters, as sometimes they will turn around loads or climb up a wall and jump down repeatedly. Not very often though. Overall, a great game for wii.
Have fun, especially with the saw!

Fun without the polish!!!
Manhunt 2 was always going to be controversial and after playing the first one wondered how this would follow up. Thankfully the game is still fun in a sick sort of way and doesn't disappoint too much.

The idea of the game is to try and escape different areas without being caught by the other gangs. To avoid detection you have to move quietly and lurk in the many shadows and then take the bad guys out one by one.

The executions in the game have been heavily censored now, so all you get is a blury red smudge on the screen as you murder your victim in a violent manner. This doesn't really spoil the game and in a way makes it more stylish.

Graphically, the game doesn't look amazing but does have some nice atmospheric locations. Lights flicker in seedy nightclubs and hospitals and light shines through broken roofs in old lofts. All though the effects aren't amazing, it does fit in with the locations perfectly.
The frame-rate is fairly steady, but does dip now and then creating small stutters in the gameplay.

The sound is amazing and also very atmospheric. Police sirens can be heard in the distance, dogs barking and people screaming.. very unearving!

Controls aren't amazing, but do work. The nunchuck and wiimote can be swung in different directions to cause different attacks and seem ok most of the time, but can feel unresponsive occasionally.

So overal, the game is far from perfect, but VERY fun for adults looking for a more mature game for the Wii. The price is very reasonable now, so buy it before it gets banned again!!

A TRIUMPH OF ARBITRARY, IDIOTIC, CENSORSHIP
The first manhunt game was far from being a complete masterpiece, but as far as treating adults like adults, and giving them some entertainment aimed directly at their demographic, it was a triumph. From the 70's style, nasty, low-budget, droning, synth sounds to the grainy, video nasty, VHS filters that sporadically clouded the screen so effectively and right down to the seedy underworld scenarios and warriors-esque, themed, street gangs: Finally gaming had reached beyond silly sprays of chunky, Mortal Kombat, blood to real adult entertainment. So naturally we all waited with bated breath in anticipation of the next installment. But something unfortunate happened between Manhunt and Manhunt 2, the censors lost, first their minds then, their spines.
I recently watched a comparison online of uncensored footage from this game and the kills from the original manhunt (Don't know why they haven't torn that video down already) and I have to say that the original was much, much nastier than this, and not just in the gore stakes but also in the realism of the story and overall characterisation. Fair enough the game has gone from serious nastiness to fantastical story telling and cartoonish schlock but there in lies my point - why cut this game and not the first? It's ridiculous hand holding nonsense like this that tells me I can't play what I want to, I am not free to indulge in something darker from time to time, which is just insulting and infuriating and we are being treated like idiots.

There are a few people on here saying that the headache inducing red blur that smears the screen every time I dispatch some very bad people doesn't take away from the game, and even adds some style: I'm sorry but there is enough style in here without this gaming equivalent of banging your head on a wall destroying your enjoyment. Secondly sometimes you can see a bit of the kills but the very fact that they are obscured is the total ruination of the entire point of waving your pads around like a fool, and destroys the payoff you get from spending your time hunting the hunters.

What this all boils down to is as follows: when you see imbeciles buying their screeching brats games like Grand Theft Auto and this, because their friends have got it and they're moaning, and these buffoons actually see what their kids are playing, instead of blaming themselves for not reading up on the game before they dumped their kids in front of it, they blame the makers of the games and thus this backwards censorship grows and gets out of control like a cancer, ruining everyone else's enjoyment. Two perfect examples of this madness can be seen on the Sim Animals page here on Amazon, two feckless parents blaming the game and not their bad judgment are featured right there and it's clueless people like them, and the pathetic old men running the BBFC, that are telling us what we can and can't watch and how we are allowed to entertain ourselves. It's ridiculous but they're getting there own way, and if this hollow shell of a game doesn't prove it then perhaps the banning of Natural Born Killers and Childs play back in the day may spring to mind and remind you why these people have to be stopped. Games do not make people do bad things, but these censors are making me want to. Everyone who bought this game, in hope that the cuts may not have been that bad, should receive the game as it was intended, coupled with a letter of apology, and be reimbursed from the pockets of these complete morons.

As far as the game goes, it's mediocre, not a patch on the viceral orignal (mostly down to the problems 'hinted at' above), and has AI that makes my cat look like a member of MENSA, but that's not the point now is it.