Manhunt 2

Manhunt 2 is a controversial 3rd person action adventure game.

I worked as the lead programmer on Manhunt 2 as part of the Rockstar Vienna team between 2004 and 2006. As the lead on this project, with a team of 10 programmers, my work split was roughly 30/70 programming/management.

Manhunt 2 was built using the Manhunt codebase as its starting point, written in C++ using the RenderWare engine for the PS2 & Xbox.

The two most significant changes to the engine undertaken by the team were:

• Moving from a level based loading structure, to a streaming contiguous world.
• Automating traversal animation selection for movement across obstacles.
• Adding "Environmental Executions".

When Take Two closed the Rockstar Vienna office in 2006, the Manhunt 2 project was 'completed' by another studio (released almost unchanged), with the original Vienna team uncredited.

On Amazon: Manhunt 2 (Wii)

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