Manhunter 2: San Francisco is a post-apocalyptic adventure game

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 designed by Barry Murry, Dave Murry and Dee Dee Murry of Evryware

Evryware

Evryware Inc. is a computer game development company based in Olympia, Washington, USA. It was founded in California in 1980 by two engineers, Dave Murry and Joe Gargiulo. Dave's siblings, Barry Murry and Dee Dee Murry, joined a few years later to round out the company. Evryware was active through...

 and published in 1989 by Sierra On-Line. It is the sequel to Manhunter: New York

Manhunter: New York

Manhunter: New York is a post-apocalyptic adventure game designed by Barry Murry, Dave Murry and Dee Dee Murry of Evryware and published in 1988 by Sierra On-Line. A sequel, Manhunter 2: San Francisco was released the next year in 1989-Scenario:...

, developed by the same authors. As of 2010 a sequel, Manhunter: London is being worked on by the Murray's as confirmed by e-mails between the owner of the Manhunter Shrine website and Mike Murray.

Story

The game continues the story depicted in Manhunter: New York. The game begins with the player, piloting an Orb ship in pursuit of the antagonist Phil Cook, crash-landing in San Francisco. Another manhunter on the ground is killed in the crash, so the player assumes his identity. As the gameplay progresses, the player learns of an organized resistance, experiments that have created mutant slaves, and the goal of the malevolent Orbs. The game reaches its climax at the end when the player is on the verge of catching Phil Cook who escapes in an Orb Ship with the player hangs on to the outside, flying off towards London where the third and final game is to take place.

Reception

• Adventure Classic Gaming gave the game a score of 3/5 stating "Similar to the first game in the series, Manhunter 2: San Francisco show some potentials in its delivery, but so much more is needed to develop this game to be considered more than just a worthy peculiarity." The average reader score is 5/5.
• Computer and Video Games
  Computer and video games
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   (UK) gave the game a score of 61%, criticizing the game's unorthodox mixture of adventure and arcade elements (compared to most other Sierra games of the era).
• Computer Gaming World
  Computer Gaming World
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  gave the game a positive review, calling it, "an excellent followup to the previous game."

The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#156 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

External links

• Manhunter 2: San Francisco - Adventure Classic Gaming Game Information & Screenshots
• Evryware' s official website
• The Manhunter Shrine