Fresh from the hacker’s pantry, here are the uncut scenes from Rockstar’s controversy magnet/attention whore, Manhunt 2. In all its bleak and bloodsoaked glory, this showreel of murder is taken from the hacked PSP version that I reported on in an earlier post and that Nex added to just a moment ago.
I’ve never been a fan of the term ‘torture porn’ when it comes to videogames, but if ever a game deserved such a label, this would be it. Watching these scenes, I feel like they’re not meant for my eyes, like they were intended for more perverse minds to enjoy. I wasn’t disgusted, nor was I shocked, I felt … nothing watching this. No emotion whatsoever. The bleak and needlessly grim way with which these scenes are carried out just fills me with emptiness.
There’s something about this nasty little showreel that makes me feel one thing, though — an […]
Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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