"Despite months of intense hype surrounding Manhunt 2, at least one major review site finds the game disappointing.

GameSpy has clubbed the Wii version of Manhunt 2 with a ho-hum 2.5 (out of five) score."

"I've played through and beaten both the original and Manhunt 2 multiple times on both difficulty levels, and while it's great to see Rockstar start to make this into a "franchise," it feels as though a number of things went missing in the sequel."

"It is clear by now that violence in video games is thought more pernicious than comparable violence in more traditional media. Just look at coverage of Halo, the top-selling science-fiction series that is akin to “Star Wars” in its level of made-up mayhem. In the mainstream media Halo is often described as a “violent space epic” or a “violent shoot-’em-up game.” But when was the last time “Star Wars” was described as George Lucas’s “violent space movie”? For that matter, when was the last tim..."

"The biggest and most disappointing change relates to the major death strikes. When Danny sneaks up on an enemy, gamers can hold the A button down, at which point they will be given the option to pick from three different murder animations (on Wii, they get to act them out with Nintendo's motion-sensitive controllers). In the AO-rated build of Manhunt 2, we could clearly see these over-the-top and horrific animations. In the M-rated version, Rockstar has added both an extreme blur effect and i..."