DESCRIPTION:
2nd entry in this series.

Music from the first stage of the cult horror game, Manhunt. Manhunt was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games for the PS2 in 2003, PC and XBox version released in 2004. You play convicted killer James Earl Cash in a primarily stealth-centered survival horror game where you are thrust into a run-down urban wasteland resembling Detroit or Pittsburgh, and must use stealth to take down, one by one, an increasingly dangerous and murderous rogues' gallery of gangs hired to find you and kill you, all for the benefit of the CCTV cameras an insane filmmaker has set up throughout the city for his underground snuff film ring.

The soundtrack was modelled off of all those old horror movie soundtracks, and was composed by Craig Conner, using an old Korg mono/poly synth keyboard, which was then distorted with lo-fi effects, a few drum samples added, and occasionally 'downgraded' to 8 bit sampling.

This game is actually quite influential on me; I was totally drawn in by the run down urban environments and the sheer brutality of the people in it, and how the only way to survive is to be even more brutal. I know folks like Jack Thompson like to rail on and on about violence in video games, and yes, Manhunt IS violent, brutal, and dark- the main character has almost no redeeming qualities and neither does anyone else; but that's the whole POINT. Where games like Resident Evil or Silent pit you against monsters of biological, supernatural, or psychosymbolic origin, in Manhunt the only monsters, the true monsters, are other people, showing them at their worst, showing just how awful they can be.