so has anyone seen the videos that gametailers.com has up for manhunt 2?
supposedly their the UNCENSORED version of various weapon killings, and i must say...
their not as gruesome as i thought. after seeing those videos i honestly dont see how this violence is any different then stuff we've already seen. especially when you take the graphics into consideration... things look even less realistic. if this was an HD game but had the same art style i could see being a little more grossed out by some of these death animations but as it is.. its kinda laughable.
in most cases its just a head exploding, like in re4 except re4 looks muuuuch better, and much more gruesome because of it. in Manhunt2 theirs just a ridiculous amount of blood that is reminiscent of the splatters you'd see in an Oldschool mortal kombat game. it doesnt look realistic in anyway, and the camera pans around so much that you dont see much of whats going on. I'm not implying the camera controls suck, everyone by now should know that when you go into one of these death animations the camera changes angles to stylize the violence, but the way it does it actually tones down the violence because you can never truly see whats going on.
the most gruesome thing i saw was a Death by Sythe animation... your character jumps on the back of another character (in one of the many possible animations you'll see) and begins to tear the "enemy's" face off.... or maybe he's pulling his brain out thru his nose..... honestly you CANT TELL. all you see is a hand w/ sythe in front of the characters face, lots of fake looking blood (loooks too thick and cartoonish) and then his head explodes as he falls off screen.
so yeah, you cant tell whats going on but i still found it to be the most gruesome death, why? i think it has to do with the fact that in other forms of media, like film, we're so used to seeing more, much more and in more detail, that our brain "fills in the blanks" so to speak. all i was a hand with a weapon in front of someones face and my brain told me to think "he's pulling out his brain thru his nose." does that make me a sick person, or does that simply show that i enjoyed reading about Egyptian culture and knew that the brains of the deceased were pulled out via the nasal cavity before mumification and had an idea of what it would look like because i've seen it done in R rated movies..?
after seeing that i feel really cheated that what ships on halloween next month will be a toned down version of a game that wasnt even that violent....
ps.
the scene where you wrip someones testes out with a pair of pliers (sp?) was lame. the guy is just standing there when you sneak up behind him and your hand goes between his legs, lots more of that fake looking blood then you have an unidentifiable object you throw away. same thing goes for the version of it where you rip out their throat. you cant tell what you ripped out, you just see something red in the pliers but the guys neck is intact..
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