Let me rephrase. Brutal was probably the wrong word to use.
I rather meant brutal as in 'emotionally unsettling'. With fiction it's easy, as you know it's all fake and make believe. This changes when you know something is as real as it gets.
I like to play Manhunt. Call me a sadist, but I just can't help but laughing when beheading someone with a machete, or seeing someone get slammed by a toilet lid. It's just the grotesquely over-the-top sadism that draws my attention. Not the brutality. It would've been brutal, if it was real...
Hahaha yeah, that reminded me of the wire weapon in the first Manhunt. In the Hardcore execution you could behead someone with that. That was so over the top it was funny.
Same goes for the big baseball bat, by the way. Normally you'd just fracture someone's skull, but in Manhunt, you can...
Is this even porting to the PC? Last I heard, I thought not.
I watched the reel, but it eventually bored me to the extend of making me yawn. It didn't really shock me since Manhunt was and is an over-the-top game, however, the first Manhunt had a pretty fitting storyline, whereas this one seems...
First of all, the Hydra (even though it's not from HL1). She'd make an awesome replacement for the tentacles.
Then the Garg. Of everything I encountered in the first HL series, that thing was probably the most fearsome of all.
Greek and Latin are not the same, thy blasphemer!
The Greek word Ichthus (or ΙΧΘΥΣ) is used as an acronym by Christians - Iesous CHristos THeou Uios Soter, translated as Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. They still use it as a symbol today, in the form of fish like ornaments (e.g. on the back...