play it play it play it play it
You can always play it for 15 mins, then call a friend, then play for 15, play some Pokemon Pinball, play for 15, ... use some strategy to disperse the evil. ;)
tell us what you think! I've been meaning to take a look at it as well, perhaps I'll go grab that now.

you don't understand. i am SUCH a fraidy-cat about horror movies and such. even playing Eternal Darkness freaked me out.

and i still have nightmares about Alien V. Predator.

but. okay. i WILL. just.... not now.

I wouldn't worry about the game scaring you. Granted, there are moments when guys make you jump, but that's rare. In fact, you may even find the game a little boring but you'll get hooked. I couldn't stop playing even with the mechanics constantly repeating themselves (make noise, hide, kill the NPC when turned around, repeat). I suggest you play it for awhile being its gathered so much attention. Let's us know what you think!

Play Mario & Luigi instead!

and to think i had the actual yellow puffy envelope in my hands, and yet resisted the urge to tear it open at dinner.

i should have been a better bad influence last night.

oh. and you aren't alone. you have cats. which is all the better, as their eyes illuminate eerily in a pitch black room with just the tv on.

I love games like this. I sit in front of the TV in the dark with my girlfriend holding tightly to my arm. Sometimes I put the controller in her hands and she plays for 10 minutes or so before screaming and handing it back to me. Then she buries her face in my shoulder while I tell her, "Look, Honey! Your missing the best part!"

I don't know about Manhunt, I just don't know. I really like stealth-action games but I just can't get past the snuff-film part. I also found the Marine demo of AvP too frightening to finish and don't get me started on The Ring. On the other hand I have this pseudo-scholarly desire to see the game and see if it lives up to the hype. So I'm torn.

Luckily, I don't own a PS2 so the problem more or less solves itself.

I'm interested to hear what you think. I haven't played it yet. My prejudices:

• sneaking around == fun
  
• a world of surveilance cams == culturally resonant fun
  
• bloodlessly killing someone with a gun == fun
  
• killing someone with a plastic bag != fun
  
• killing someone with a shard of glass != fun
  
• killing someone with a baseball bat != fun
  

i think daggerfall was the scariest game i have ever played. creeping around, lost, in endless dungeons filled with horrible things, at 3 in the morning with all the lights off... yeesh.

The most frightening game I've ever played was ULTIMA IX: ASCENSION.

Between the memory leak, crash-to-the-desktop bugs and corrupted save games, you literally never knew when you might be in the last minute of your character's life.

Scary.

Manhunt's been banned in New Zealand.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/manhunt/news_6085503.html

Ever try to uninstall Pool of Radiance? :)

as much as i like being terrified, it rarely happens. however, at an early age, i remember being absolutely chilled to the bone with the original castle wolfenstein on the C64.

"HALT!"

so good.

pepito pea

I'll hold your hand if you'll hold my... uh, nevermind.

Wait, did I just violate the Terms of Use?

well but then i don't have any hands free to work the controller.

I still laugh at myself when I think about the time I screamed out loud from the bathroom scene in Eternal Darkness....

Nothing like playing in complete darkness, a kicking home theater system pumping out the atmospheric spookiness.. and then BAM!

AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

followed by my own laughter.. those bastards at Silicon Knights had got me... and somewhere in the valley I could here the game designers chuckling...

Stealth-action, graphic violence, and gore. It's not really a survival horror kind of game, so what's there to be afraid of? (Well, other than when you're spotted...) Zombies and ghosts are way worse. O_o

I am working through my first FPS on the PC, and am hooked actually, but was looking for shooter with more of a plot than Call of Duty. Thought about trying an old Hitman, but if you like Manhunt let me know...

imho the game isn't scary or brutal at all.. its
just good old GTA with a few extra's and sneaking
involved. it kinda let me down :\

Games that DO give me the creeps are silent hill,
fatal frame and the upcoming siren. They have that
kind of atmosphere i seem to be missing in manhunt.

Set for this weekend: fatal frame 2, cant wait! x_x

Aliens vs. Predator 2 is STILL the scariest game I've ever played. At least, when I play as the measly human.

Scariest game ever for me? Thief I, any zombie level. The combination of unkillable undead and sneaking really creeped the hell out of me. I could only play for 15 min at a time.

After that it'd be Fatal Frame and Silent Hill 2.

I can't play scary games. I was watching someone else play Resident Evil on the GameCube, I could never get past the play control, and I had to hide behind a pillow. When I was playing Eternal Darkness I had to shut the GameCube off and go for a walk every once in a while, it scared me half to death. The part where you hear some faint knocking in the distance, that did me in. I can't imagine playing a game like Fatal Frame or Silent Hill, I would probably have a heart attack and die. I've avoided scary games as a rule, but so many people told me I really oughta play these games, so I did. Lesson learned. Manhunt should be doable though. I think it's supposed to be more of an adrenaline rush than a pants wetting experience. It has radar, doesn't it?

Pool of Radiance had the hard drive wiping bug, didn't it? That is scary.

OOOH! I am rather jealous to say the least...I can't wait to get hold of Manhunt. I always enjoy Rockstar's spin on adult entertainment and the absolute boundaries they push.

As far as "scary" games are concerned, I'm insanely envious of those who DO get scared beyond comprehension at the horror genre titles...the only game to have me whimpering like a little kid having just lost their mother in the supermarket was the Silent Hill series, and only because of the way that game affects you on the emotional level...making you associate so fully with the characters...Yay me, I got Silent Hill 3 yesterday (finally) and have stocked up on sleeping pills - I'm going to need them!

i like how this thread is us all just sayin ghost stories about video games. my scariest was when i was playin resident evil in ps1, a day after getting my wisdom teeth pulled, outta my mind on pain killers. man that was scary, i would kinda moan and just drool whenever something scary happened. i couldnt move too much tho, so i hadda play it all the way thru in that state. eternal darkness definietly gave me some weird feelings walking around at night in the dark in florida tho.

Gamers this freaked out by a game? You'd think there was a member of the opposite sex in that package!

ahaha...uhhh...yeah, sory. Yet another instance when I should hit Back instead of Post.

I just don't think I can motivate myself to play Manhunt, not because it's scary, but because there are just some representational frontiers I'm not keen to cross.

But I definitely agree that Aliens vs. Predator 2 scared the bejezus out of me, and I was surprised how much it did. When I got out of the first trip down into the alien infestations and then the other marines tell me I have to go off by myself again, I actually stopped playing for a while because I wanted the option to say, "No fucking way...I'm staying right here in the big vehicle. YOU go off and do it, okay?"

Well, I don`t really wanna play Manhunt, it isn`t my favorite kind of game, I just don`t like the psychopat part. But I love scary games, I remember Alice, the scary one, I couldn`t play alone without getting jumpy. I just can`t wait to play Fatal Frame II and STALKER, the 2 most wanted for me!

The most scary experience I've ever had playing a video game was Lucasfilm's "Rescue on Fractalus" for the Atari 800. You would land on a hostile planet to rescue a downed pilot, and see him running towards your ship... but every so often, the pilot turned out to be an alien who would jump up on the windshield and smash it. Totally terrifying. And like some newer horror games, there was no music - just ambient sounds. That game kicked ass.

One of the first major third-party mods for Marathon Infinity was called Fury, I think. That for me was a real proto-moment of the kind of thing you got later on in the AvP series and the like, quite a lot. The first level started out as the same ol' run and gun with familiar beasties... then you entered a dark corridor, and suddenly met an incredibly short, ugly creature with long, long claws that kind of snuck up where you might not have been looking (I don't think mouse look was even supported in the Marathon engine at that point) and absolutely tore you in half. That was a real wake-up call - run and gun time is over, kids - and yet it was fully in the tradition of the Marathon games: make up what you lack in technology with atmosphere, story, and consideration of your audience.

Jane, did you ever play Illbleed? It was a sleeper game for Dreamcast, horror-action. You played a bunch of teenagers stuck in a horror-themed amusement park after taking up the owner's invitations to make their way through it without dying to win big cash. Each level was a "movie" you had to survive. It went more for the gruesome creep-out than the big scare, though there were some incredibly startling, scary moments in there. Also some crazy twists, even in the beginning of the game. (For example, in the first level, after you fight the level's boss, you're not done; you have to evade away from him in another part of the mansion, then get past a giant version of him... and then get out of the "movie" by making your way to the control booth and killing the machine operator working the robot in an attempt to kill you and prevent you from getting out of the level.) Makes me wish my Dreamcast still worked so I could finish the game.

I too finally played Manhunt a little last night. I bought it weeks ago, but I have so many other "non-snuff" games that I didn't have the time.

The mood is great. Like some lost John Carpenter film and the sound effects (knocking over a lone grocery cart in a deserted alley) are spot-on. However, the control seems kinda booty.

IMO, Fatal Frame 2 is way more terrifying. I played that with my wife and just freaked the freak out. It's got that Pulse, The Ring vibe. Brrrrr...

While the rest of the game didn't affect me much, the part in Resident Evil: Code Veronica where you find the movie of the kids pulling the wings off a dragonfly creeped me out for days. I still shudder thinking about it.

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

I found Manhunt kind of boring, and not at all what I'm looking for in a videogame. But I did coin a new word for the impression it left on me.

This game, and GTA3, for that matter, I find to be downlifting.

caleb

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