History VideoGame / Manhunter

* AfterTheEnd: You live in ruins of New York. Much of the population has disappeared shortly after the invasion. Probably it's not the end yet, because it's going to get worse.

* AliensAreBastards.

* HostileTerraforming: Planned fate of Earth.
* HulkSpeak: Messages written by mutants.
* LaResistance: Several groups. But quite ineffectual.
* TheMasquerade: Despite being employed by the Orbs (or rather, forced to work for them), you are actively looking for a way to stop them from about the second day on. In order to keep them from killing you, though, you have to keep hunting the targets that they assign to you and accurately reporting who they are at the end of the day. [[spoiler: The Orbs see through your ruse anyway, and tell you that you're being transferred to Chicago at the beginning of the last day in New York.]]

* SilentProtagonist

The second game starts with you crash landing in San Francisco and accidentally killing a local Manhunter. You assume his identity and use his position and equipment to continue chasing Phil and fight Orbs Alliance from within.

''Manhunter: New York'' and ''Manhunter 2: San Francisco'' are AdventureGames developed by Evryware (who previously made ''VideoGame/TheAncientArtOfWar'') and published by {{Sierra}} in 1988 and 1989. Two more games were planned, one of them to take place in London, but never went into production.

While the games used the same AGI engine [[note]] The second game was the last to use the AGI engine. [[/note]] as all the previous Sierra text adventures, they did not employ a text parser. And unlike earlier parserless Sierra adventures, they lacked dialogs, relying on [[GuideDangIt more creative ways]] to give in-game information. Also, they featured then-unique first-person gameplay[[note]]third-person in some of numerous minigames[[/note]], similar to ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', with many New York and San Francisco landmarks as a background.

* SilentProtagonist.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: While it's not a boss, there is a part of the game where a dragon comes right out of nowhere, with no warning. Oh, Sierra...

You start the first game as a press-ganged Manhunter assigned to investigate some murders. This puts you on a track of escaped [[AlwaysChaoticEvil serial]] [[OmnicidalManiac killer]] Phil, lets you find out [[HostileTerraforming Orbs' true intentions]] and lets you eventually clean New York from aliens. The game ends with you chasing Phil in stolen Orbs' ship.

''Manhunter: New York'' and ''Manhunter 2: San Francisco'' are AdventureGames developed by Evryware and published by {{Sierra}} in 1988 and 1989. Two more games were planned, one of them to take place in London, but never went into production.

Manhunter's job is tracking down humans, who violate Orbs' laws, and reporting them to Orbs at the end of the day. Implanting tracking disks should've sufficed, but as it turned out, the disks can only transmit the host's location, not the identity. And they don't work underground. Hence the need for Manhunters.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some sources indicate that the third game was going to be set in Chicago and the fourth and final in London. Others claim London for third and Orbs' homeworlds for fourth.

''Manhunter: New York'' and ''Manhunter 2: San Francisco'' are AdventureGames developed by Evrywhere and published by {{Sierra}} in 1988 and 1989. Two more games were planned, one of them to take place in London, but never went into production.

''Manhunter: New York'' and ''Manhunter 2: San Francisco'' are AdventureGames released by {{Sierra}} in 1988 and 1989. Two more games were planned, but never went into production.

While the games used the same AGI engine as all the previous Sierra text adventures, they did not employ a text parser. And unlike earlier parserless Sierra adventures, they lacked dialogs, relying on [[GuideDangIt more creative ways]] to give in-game information. Also, they featured then-unique first-person gameplay[[note]]third-person in some of numerous minigames[[/note]], similar to ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', with many New York and San Francisco landmarks as a background.

* StarfishAliens / Oculothorax: [[http://themanhuntershrine.talkspot.com/uploads/46966/Orb.JPG Orbs that control New York]] look like a head-sized floating eye with an eyebrow-like antennas. [[http://themanhuntershrine.talkspot.com/uploads/46966/Orb2.JPG Orbs in San Francisco]] look more like a floating head — with wrinkled forehead, two eyes, nose and mouth. And similar antennas.

While the games used the same AGI engine as all the previous Sierra text adventures, they did not employ a text parser. And unlike earlier parserless Sierra adventures, they lacked dialogs, relying on [[GuideDangIt more creative ways]] to give in-game information. Also, they featured then-unique first-person gameplay[[note]]third-person in some of numerous minigames[[/note]], similar to ''{{Myst}}'', with many New York and San Francisco landmarks as a background.

* StarfishAliens: [[http://themanhuntershrine.talkspot.com/uploads/46966/Orb.JPG Orbs that control New York]] look like a head-sized floating eye with an eyebrow-like antennas. [[http://themanhuntershrine.talkspot.com/uploads/46966/Orb2.JPG Orbs in San Francisco]] look more like a floating head — with wrinkled forehead, two eyes, nose and mouth. And similar antennas.

While the games used the same AGI engine as all the previous Sierra text adventures, they did not employ a text parser. And unlike earlier parserless Sierra adventures, they lacked dialogs, relying on [[GuideDangIt more creative ways]] to give in-game information. Also, they featured then-unique first-person gameplay[[hottip:*:third-person in some of numerous minigames]], similar to ''{{Myst}}'', with many New York and San Francisco landmarks as a background.

-> It's been two long, tedious years since the invasion. They came suddenly, like a thief in the night... it was all over by dawn's first light. I have no idea how the rest of the world is doing... outside communication has been suffocated.

-> All of us are required to wear the designated uniform, brown robes, and we must keep our faces hidden as much as possible. Above all else, we are not allowed to speak to each other. To do so would mean certain death.

-> A select number of humans were chosen by the Orbs to become Manhunters. I have no idea how the selection was made or how I was chosen. Tomorrow is my first day on the job... and I have no clue as to my destiny.

-->-- excerpts from the '''Official Manhunter's Field Guide'''

Manhunter's job is tracking down humans, who violate Orb's laws, and reporting them to Orbs at the end of the day. Implanting tracking disks should've sufficed, but as it turned out, the disks can only transmit the host's location, not the identity. And they don't work underground. Hence the need for Manhunters.

* AfterTheEnd: You live in a ruins of New York. Much of the population has disappeared shortly after the invasion. Probably it's not the end yet, because it's going to get worse.