Planet Bob - Playing Manhunter 2: San Francisco (DOS)

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Hi there!

 

I'd ever thought that I'd play a Sierra Adventure like that:

 

http://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/xype/manhunter.gif

 

Well, actually I didn't feature any Sierra game ever before, but that's because almost all of them so far were text adventures. I can't stand playing those, so I've been mostly ignoring Sierra, just like Infocom or Level 9 games. Manhunter 2 at hands though, is a point'n click adventure. One could now rightfully argue that the first Manhunter was one as well, but none of my old video game magazines mentioned it anywhere, so I decided to try the 2nd once I read about it.

 

If you're now thinking Manhunter is a point'n click game like the Lucasarts stuff or something with a toolbar of icons or an intelligent mouse-cursor, you're wrong. It's much simpler here: Each screen just has a few (usually only 1 or two) hotspots you can click and with that you either navigate somewhere, pick something up or launch one of a good dozen little action sequences.

 

As simple as...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-7717-playing-manhunter-2-san-francisco-dos/