Manhunt 2

Silent Hill Origins
$19.99
I think this game is, most likely due to the new developers, merely trying to "be" a Silent Hill game, in every way except for the music. Mr. Yamaoka is an excellent musician when it comes to the Silent Hill series, but this forced game isn't worth being a platform to deliver said music.

The way that Silent Hill symbols, such as the Seal of Metatron are thrown about with seemingly no regard to their symbolism (i.e., Alessa making a floating Seal, to dispel fire, somehow, for some reason, which is just stupid. It would be like Jesus making a cross symbol to scare away a dragon, just nonsense, really.) was most likely due to the new developers going "Oh, goody, we can place Silent Hill items anywhere we want, a-one here, a-one here, and a-one here...", because they have never worked on Silent Hill before, and thus can't know it so thoroughly as the original developing team/s. The game is abound with "creepy little girls", but "creepy little girls" have never really been creepy, just silly, and since when did Silent Hill use such canned "scare tactic" type spooks? Right here, that's when.

The levels are full of locked doors, as usual, but now it is pretty much just every door between the door you came in through, and the farthest door from you in the new hallway, because instead of the maps being deceptively confusing, springing locked doors on you when you least expected it, they are actually extremely linear. They just hope you will try every door you come across between those first and farthest doors, so you can see how many locked ones they threw in.

Sure, the new developers were "real" developers, but it was pretty much a bunch of Silent Hill fans who had (hopefully) played the original games being allowed to make their own game and put the title of Silent Hill on it, which ultimately gives it a stilted, "fan-made" feel.

I could do that, and you could do that, and they would both be terrible, because we don't make the Silent Hill games, Japan's Team Silent does!

In regards to the items, having TVs, Toasters, and Typewriters in your inventory is pretty silly. Even though characters in other games could have hundreds of pounds of items, if you sort of discounted weapons, the inventory items you carried around weren't overly large. Maybe James had big pockets, I don't know, but he never needed to carry around televisions in case he felt like throwing one.

Edit: I also wonder if even the music is not as it *could* be, if Mr. Yamaoka was given some real, quality Silent Hill material to work with, instead of "Hey, can you make us another song for another dark evil hospital? And after that, a dark foggy night, if you would be so kind."

Almost everything I said above can also apply to Silent Hill: Homecoming, but that game had some really amazing graphics in it's defense.

Manhunt 2
$29.99
This game is a piece of trash! The player control is the worste I have ever seen in a video game. I've playing video games for almost 25 years and I've seen some bad ones, but this takes the cake! Don't waste your money! The player control is so bad that it makes this game almost worthless.

Manhunt
$19.99
Quick, does this sound good to you: Metal Gear Solid crossed with Grand Theft Auto?

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That's really the only question you need to answer to know if Manhunt is for you or not. Manhunt is an ultraviolent stealth action game. You need to sneak around, just like in MGS, but Rockstar has dialed up the gore, the violence, and the sick humor to GTA levels.

No need to sit through some convoluted, moralistic storyline here. The focus is on killing without getting killed yourself. Plastic bags, icepicks, crowbars, baseball bats, pistols, rifles...if you can pick it up, you can use it as a weapon. Simple, quick, effective.

Bottom line: If you dig the movies Clockwork Orange, Man Bites Dog, Reservoir Dogs, and Hard Boiled, Manhunt is for you. If you are a sensitive person, not yet old enough to see R-rated flicks, or think Wii Boxing is too intense, stay away--very, very far away--from Manhunt. You WILL be offended. Boo yah!

Manhunt 2
$29.99
Diversity in levels, intrigue in story telling, countless nailing-biting moments, thrilling take-downs! I bought this game because I thoroughly enjoyed Manhunt 1. This game is a little easier and with a great story! Buy this game!