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There was once a world in which Rockstar published more than two games a decade. Difficult to believe, I know, but having lived through that halcyon period, I would testify to its existence in court.<\/p>\n

A game like Manhunt 2 was sandwiched between Vice City Stories and Bully the year before, plus GTA 4 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles the year after. In fact, as a colourful demonstration of how busy Rockstar\u2019s release schedule used to get, consider that the publisher was responsible for no fewer than four takes on Los Angeles over a span of eight years. That\u2019s GTA 5, San Andreas, LA Noire and the aforementioned city racer, all open worlds.<\/p>\n

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It was a packed catalogue that allowed a subset of Rockstar games to be something they never are today: forgotten. Manhunt 2 now exists as a curio, more talked about than played. It\u2019s most often remembered as a moment in which Rockstar\u2019s controversy-baiting finally came home to roost\u2014impacting not only marketing and perception, but the state the game actually launched in.<\/p>\n

Rockstar\u2019s history of courting bad press extends all the way back to the first Grand Theft Auto, which it promoted by hiring the notorious UK publicist Max Clifford\u2014who later died in prison after being found guilty of eight indecent assaults on women and young girls. For GTA, Clifford planted stories and prodded at politicians, puppeteering the British political establishment until the game\u2019s age rating was discussed in the House of Lords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without such cynical marketing, there\u2019s a good chance GTA would never have ascended to become a global phenomenon. And so you can understand where the Manhunt series came from. A stealth concept about televised torture, in which players were rewarded with extra points for committing murder in the most explicitly awful fashion with plastic bags and garrottes, it had tabloid outrage baked into its DNA. Although that didn\u2019t equate to blockbuster sales, Manhunt\u2019s cult status only added to its video nasty appeal\u2014which was enough to ensure it got greenlit for a sequel.<\/p>\n

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\"Manhunt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

(Image credit: Rockstar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By that time, though, real trouble was bubbling up for Rockstar. Newspapers had blamed Manhunt for a teenage murder in the wake of the original game\u2019s release, and with the help of anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson, calls to limit Manhunt 2\u2019s sales emerged before its launch.<\/p>\n

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By the time Rockstar had appeased ratings boards, Manhunt 2 had been significantly censored. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

“We are aware that in direct contradiction to all available evidence, certain individuals continue to link the original Manhunt title to the Warren Leblanc case in 2004,\u201d Rockstar said in a statement at the time. \u201cThe transcript of the court case makes it quite clear what really happened. At sentencing the judge, defence, prosecution and Leicester police all emphasised that Manhunt played no part in the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publisher concluded that it would submit the game to the appropriate bodies, and expected to get an 18 rating. But that\u2019s not exactly what happened. By the time Rockstar had appeased ratings boards, Manhunt 2 had been significantly censored. In particular, its killings were dramatically toned down, and blurred onscreen by a psychedelic cocktail of visual effects.<\/p>\n

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\"Manhunt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

(Image credit: Rockstar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oddly, this has left the difficult-to-find PC version of Manhunt 2 in a unique position. It\u2019s the only place you can see the game\u2019s takedown animations as they were first intended. Fans have covered the differences exhaustively on the Manhunt wiki<\/a>, where you can find out precisely what happens to a man\u2019s eyes when you attack him with a pair of pliers on your desktop.<\/p>\n

By contrast, I\u2019ve been playing the PSP version on Vita\u2014a remarkably full-featured port by the magicians at Chinatown Wars studio Rockstar Leeds. There, the attacks are noticeably blunted, in a very literal sense\u2014jittery protagonist Danny Lamb treating every weapon as if it were an edgeless object, rather than taking advantage of the obvious properties of a massive pair of shears.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if Lamb was setting about his opponents with a big foam sword\u2014or it would be, if they didn\u2019t make the most terrible gurgling noises during the ordeal. Ratings boards tend to focus heavily on visuals, rather than sound, but as any horror aficionado will tell you, a scream or a snap is often much more evocative than fake blood. Audio has the capacity to stick with you long after the image has faded.<\/p>\n

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\"Manhunt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

(Image credit: Rockstar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Discussion around Manhunt 2 online tends to focus on finding the definitive, uncut version, which I can understand. As someone perpetually on the side of the artists, I tend to seek out games and movies in the state their makers intended them. But in this case? I\u2019m not sorry to be on the receiving end of a little censorship. I do not, in fact, need to see Danny plunge his hand into a victim\u2019s neck and pull out their Adam\u2019s apple. I prefer a Pink Lady or Granny Smith, and being able to sleep at night.<\/p>\n

What bothers me more is the other consequence of the ratings hoo-ha: the lack of a score screen at the end of each level. A core mechanic of Manhunt\u2014arguably its USP, the one thing that makes it stand out from its better-loved peer, Splinter Cell\u2014is the ability to charge up takedowns before letting loose. The blows don\u2019t get any more powerful, and bonking an unaware enemy on the head the moment their back is turned will remove them from the board just the same. But in the original game, you\u2019d get a higher score for pulling off charged-up attacks, which treated your Squid Game audience of paying sickos to a grislier and more varied set of deaths. Not so in Manhunt 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scoring was a holdover from the first game, and when we had the opportunity to make edits because of the rating, we decided to remove it,\u201d former Rockstar high-up Jeronimo Barrera told MTV in 2007<\/a>. \u201cWe felt it flowed better without a score screen between levels.\u201d Perhaps. But in what other game has a ratings board battle caused the entire metric by which player success is measured to be tossed out? Only on PC is there an incentive to creep slowly behind enemies as they move, holding down the attack key all the while. Otherwise, you\u2019re merely doing it for your own professional pride, or disgusting gratification\u2014delete as appropriate.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Rockstar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Improving the flow of Manhunt 2 might have been a sensible priority if it had a \u201creally strong narrative\u201d, as Barrera claimed. But despite flourishes of non-chronology, its dual-personality horror is ultimately predictable. For a serial killer, Lamb is oddly passive in his own story\u2014failing to piece together hard truths in his past you\u2019ll have long since cottoned onto.<\/p>\n

The harder truth for Manhunt 2 is that controversy does not, in the playing, make a game more interesting or brave or special. In fact, this is a distinctly safe sequel\u2014failing to move beyond the mechanical confines of its predecessor, or make bold decisions as a psychological thriller.<\/p>\n

Today, the most rewarding and alluring thing about Manhunt 2 is that it was among the last of its kind\u2014a dedicated stealth game made by a blockbuster studio, shortly before Splinter Cell shifted into action-hybrid territory and the industry followed suit. Shoved between Bully and Midnight Club in the release schedule, this was a cat-and-mouse simulator of light and sound that demanded you sit in the shadows and wait out your enemies\u2014the likes of which we rarely get today. That\u2019s how Manhunt 2 is best appreciated, rather than as a graveyard of censored images related to the misuse of gardening equipment.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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There was once a world in which Rockstar published more than two games a decade. Difficult to believe, I know, but having lived through that halcyon period, I would testify to its existence in court. A game like Manhunt 2 was sandwiched between Vice City Stories and Bully the year before, plus GTA 4 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles the year after. In fact, as a colourful demonstration of how busy Rockstar\u2019s release schedule used to get, consider that the publisher was responsible for no fewer than four takes on Los Angeles over a span of eight years. That\u2019s GTA 5, San Andreas, LA Noire and the aforementioned city racer, all open worlds. (Image credit: Rockstar) It was a packed catalogue that allowed a subset…<\/p>\n

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