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Manhunt

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12 Interesting Facts About Manhunt

Interesting Facts (9)

  1. #001

    Manhunt is set in Carcer City, the city located right next to Liberty City, the setting of Grand Theft Auto III (2001), where it had also been mentioned repeatedly.

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  2. #002

    Four gangs were created that did not make it into the game: the Camheads, the Clowns, the Lost and the Jury. The Camheads wore suits and had cameras mounted on their heads; the Clowns were dressed as their name suggests; the Lost wore cleaned-up metal; and the Jury wore hockey masks. The hockey mask design ultimately went to the Skinz gang. The Clowns were given a backstory with obvious parallels to serial killer John Wayne Gacy, including a lawyer who shared Gacy's surname. The Lost motorcycle club of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned (2009) served as a tribute to the scrapped gang from Manhunt.

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  3. #003

    In 2004, following parents' concerns, the PlayStation 2 version was reviewed by the Ontario Film Review Board and rated Restricted, legally barring anyone under eighteen from renting or buying the game.

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  4. #004

    Each of the iron bars has the number 666 written on it.

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  5. #005

    The game's concept came about when Rockstar Games president Sam Houser asked writer Christian Cantamessa to find a horror story that did not involve monsters, vampires or fantasy characters. Artist Alan Davidson drew concept art for the game; one of the drawings was an underpass in which a character is chased by a gang, with the main character barely visible and only the shadows of the people chasing him in view. This reminded Christian of the film A Clockwork Orange (1971), and he thought that having players be chased, as the homeless man in the film is chased by the Droogs, would be a frightening concept.

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  6. #006

    Two "boss" characters did not make it into the game: Korkuluk and Binbag. Korkuluk was to be the former leader of the Smileys, stripped of his title after being defeated by Piggsy, with whom he carried on a feud. When not in his costume, Korkuluk was nothing more than a drunk vagrant spouting meaningless words, who can be seen in the game when Cash confronts the Innocentz. Binbag was to be the leader of the Lost (an unused gang) and would have been dressed head to toe in black garbage bags.

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  7. #007

    Due to its extreme violence, it was banned in countries including Australia, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand (until 2023, when the ban was lifted and it was given an R18 rating).

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  8. #008

    On most of the covers, the title "Manhunt" appears inside a black-and-white Mini DV label, a consumer-level video cassette format widely used in the 2000s, when the game was released.

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  9. #009

    According to writer James Worrall, the game's script was about 200 pages long.

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Easter Eggs & References (2)

  1. #010

    When the game is corrupted, the Journalist mentions the interrogation of a police officer named Gary Schaffer. This is a reference to a radio bit in Grand Theft Auto 3, also made by Rockstar Games, in which the DJ of Lips 106 mentions "police chief Gary Schaffer in nearby Carcer City," who was accused in connection with some missing witnesses.

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  2. #011

    While the journalist's apartment is searched in the "Press Coverage" level, a calendar in the kitchen shows the current month and year as November 2003, with a small smiley face drawn on the 19th. November 19, 2003, was the game's premiere date.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #012

    This game inspired the stealth mechanics of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

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