I thought it was fantastically dark and well-conceived, one of my favourite gaming memories from the PS2 Xbox days

I had it for the PS1, but I thought it got boring quite quickly.

a headache-inducing mock-video effect.

And having the voice of Brian Cox goading you on was amazingly sinister

The eurogamer thing aptly sums up why I'd never play it.

"why do you want to see the worst, nastiest kills?"

I don't.

I don't tend to pay any attention to the press anyway. But it was clear from the review that thematically the game wasn't for me.

I can't remember a stealth game around the time this came out that did a proper stealth game.

The Splinter Cell series started the year before.

I didn't think much of Splinter Cell as a stealth gamethough. Bored me senseless with its sterile story and characters.

and, for the time, looked like Jesus.

I played Manhunt when it came out. It was a boring wait-em-up. Rubbish.

This confirms it was a bona fide classic, doesn't it?

Derek just preferred Fruit Hunt and Try Not To Manhunt... each to their own!

Manhunt

This confirms it was a bona fide classic, doesn't it?

I disagree with any criticism of this game. It's one of the greatest games ever made.

It defied gaming convention by making you stand still and observe. It's kind enough however to let you try a run, bodge it up but let you run back to the safety of the shadows. I can't think of a game before Manhunt that asked so much of the player. I can't remember a stealth game around the time this came out that did a proper stealth game. MGS was flirting with it but had the ridiculous boss fights and cut scenes. Manhunt stuck to its guns throughout the lengthy playtime.

It was brutal, it had bags of atmosphere, it was oppressive but most of all it was awesome.

Just when you're getting worn down by bagging enemies you're given a pistol and suddenly you're allowed to be loud and brash. You make you're way through the prison slaughtering guards. They peer into the shadows and for the first time you can be confrontational. They crane their necks into the darkness and you blow their faces clean off. You were the weak and hunted but you become the hunter with empowering weapons.

The scenery tells the story as you make you try to make your escape. It's The Running Man, isn't it? You're part of the game and you're trying to outsmart the game you're trapped inside.

And just as you do, the SS-inspired storm troopers arrive and once again you're underpowered and hunted again. You turn it around of course as you make your way back inside the game but it's a thrilling story told in a grimey bleak setting. It's the 90's horror version of The Running Man. The director is one of the best characters we never see in a game (more astonishing from his underwhelming normal appearance at the end of the game).

It's a PS2 game that captured the atmosphere of its story perfectly. Utterly captivating.

Now I think I've missed something. Will it go on modern PCs?

In.

I'll get it posted asap.

ASAP!

I'll get it posted asap.

ASAP!

Any chance Grim... could post the disc onto me when he's done with it, and then I'll post it onto you?

I know you think I'm a proper cunt and that

but it's games innit, they transcend petty forum squabbles.

What a mantra! I hear Ian Huntley is into video games - let's encourage him to sign up!

You reap what you sow, I'm afraid.

much less being so amazingly petty as to 'refuse access to a game' on the basis of some sort of tit-for-tat 'you were mean and horrible on the forums so you can't borrow my stuff' arrangement.

WTF? Are you under the impression that borrowing people's possessions is a right, rather than a privilege? Because I'm pretty sure communism's ship sailed when the Iron Curtain came down. Not wanting to lend your stuff to people you don't like isn't "amazingly petty", it's just common sense.

A simple 'no' would've done the job though, innit.

A simple 'no' would've done the job though, innit.

A simple 'no' would've done the job though, innit.