Here is some more information from the magazine
• Bag, glass shard, 'heavy handgun', nightstick and double barrel
shotgun return. One bag execution has Daniel standing behind an orderly
punching him in the face while the orderly is on his knees. There is
also what appears to be a smaller hammer in one image, although I can’t
confirm that.
• Biro, sledge hammer and spiked bat join the party.
• There is a brother level named 'the Honey Pot', a woman named Judy is
here – the brother is a ‘front’ for recruiting for ‘The Project’.
• Environmental kills are noted by white x on the h.u.d. The radar returns.
• There are telephone and toilet environmental executions.
• There is now a weapons inventory which now pauses game. No idea if
this means you can carry more than 1 item from each grouping.
• Free aim shooting – the magazine notes shooting as being easier due
to free aim shooting, but this was also present in the original game.
It is presumably enhanced.
• Rockstar North is doing the audio for the game, which means the return of Craig Conner and Allan Walker.
• Hinted at that the USB headset will return - Just my assumption, not confirmed!
• Level design and (most) game mechanics are very similar to the first game. No free roaming (GTA).
The magazine appears to have had the chance to play the first two
levels from the game, the first acting as a tutorial. They say that
Daniel had been working on a drugs-based weapons program (for ‘The
Project’) six years prior to the events in the game and that he is a
lot more complex than Cash was. The
game picks up with Daniel in containment, and his first victim is a
female doctor, which he kills by strangling her. An electrical storm
soon hits and knocks out the power to the hospital, freeing the
patients, as Daniel passes by the cells an inmate throws urine over
him! And this is where the stealth mechanics of the game begin to come
into play. Apparently if you aren’t quiet in your escape then a
‘larger’ inmate will throw faeces over you, sound lovely. Before
long you meet Leo, the magazine goes onto explain that Daniel is so
helpless in the beginning that he won’t fight back when attacked, it
isn’t until his health drops so low and he has had enough of Leos
taunting that he stands up for himself.
The magazine skips forward ‘several hours’, it doesn’t explain if this
is through a cut-scene or if they are jumping ahead of levels
in-between. But the level they describe is the brothel level ‘The Honey
Pot’, the purpose of the level is to find Judy. Upon arriving at the
brothel they are greeted by a pimp, who takes Daniels ID, this is when
you are introduced to environmental kills. The level is described as having pimps, project members and people having sex everywhere.
The sounds of people having sex allow for Daniel to manoeuvre his way
around the brother easier due to them drowning out any sound he may be
making.
The magazine states that the game is due for release ‘this spring’
rather than summer, this is likely a difference of opinion but isn’t
spring usually around April or May?
Studio manager for Rockstar London, Mark Washbrook also participated in
a interview in the magazine. When asked 'Any chance we'll see Piggsy
again?' Mr. Washbrook responds with ' Ah, we'll see’.
Excerpts:
• No title has satisfied the fiercely loyal Manhunt fan base since its
release and there was no question that we could leave them hanging any
longer!
• Although there's no denying that Manhunt contained violence and gore
it would be missing the point if people thought these elements were
what made Manhunt as great as it was.
I also want to add that the game looks great; it is easily the best
looking Rockstar game graphically (with exception to Table Tennis –
obviously). It retains the same art direction of the first title but
looks a whole lot more polished than anything that has come before it.
So far everything is looking outstanding in my opinion, Rockstar have
attained everything that made the first game great all while expanding
upon it and they appear to be making it for the people that want the
game, rather than trying to change the opinions of others.
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