Time for a Game|Life experiment: try to forget, for a moment, that you’ve ever heard of Manhunt or Manhunt 2. Forget the controversy, the banning, the descriptions of testicle ripping and just watch the trailer. Does the video pique your interest in the game, or does it just look like another so-so action title with weak graphics and a plot that looks like it came from a Mario Van Peebles movie?
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