I am not sure why I like this game so much. The gameplay is fine at the beginning, but turns into garbage when guns are introduced. The story has an interesting premise but gets odd and loses the plot as it goes on. The executions are fun but you end up seeing the same ones constantly if you are going for high scores. But, for some reason, I have bought this game three times and have beat it a decent amount as well. Worth trying as a relic of Rockstar Games' past, but most people will stop having fun pretty quickly.

After the Grand Theft Auto series, Manhunt was another acclaimed series of games created by Rockstar. Manhunt was released in 2003 and was an adult only action and stealth based game. The level of violence in this game surpassed that of the GTA games or any game you've ever seen before. The game's story revolves around illegal manhunts secretly organized in the United States.

Players take on the role of James Earl Cash, a criminal sentenced to death by lethal injection. Interestingly, the sentence was carried out, but the main protagonist didn't die and woke up in a room full of cameras. At this point, a wealthy man named Starkweather, a former director of gore and violent porn videos for anonymous clients, informs our protagonist that he must participate in a manhunt.

The game's action takes place in Carcer City, where the authorities are bribed by the likes of Starkweather and allow them to organize the aforementioned manhunts. On the streets of this corrupt city, players help James Earl Cash survive, fighting different gangs and "hunters". The main protagonist's actions are recorded by Starkweather's hidden cameras. The game offers realistic 3D visuals for the time and is very good at scaring players and making them feel trapped due to the gloomy surroundings of the city and certain buildings. The game's sound effects also add a good quality to the atmosphere.

Gameplay mainly revolves around sneaking through enemy locations, avoiding direct confrontation and eventually eliminating enemies that threaten the main protagonist. In order to succeed, you need shadows that give you the necessary stealth and sounds that can warn you of the incoming threat, shown as red blips on the radar. You need to pay attention to these.

Once you've decided to kill someone, you can do it in many different ways: slitting their throat, strangling them with a plastic bag, breaking their neck with a special hilt, cracking their head with a brick, and using a firearm you can find on the way. However, in the early stages of Manhunt players have to deal with all the threats with their own hands, using tools such as smashed bottles. Each murder presents the player with a level of brutality with three options to choose from.