Manhunt

=== Setting ===
Manhunt is set in the fictional Carcer City, a dilapidated rust belt city rife with corruption and crime. On the prowl around the city are numerous violent gangs, who seek to find and kill the player. The game is set in a shared universe with the Grand Theft Auto series.



Plot

In 2003 in Carcer City, a journalist (Kate Miller) reports about James Earl Cash (Stephen Wilfong), a death row inmate who has been recently executed by lethal injection. However, Cash was only sedated, and awakens to an unknown voice referring to himself as "The Director" (Brian Cox), who gives him instructions through an earpiece. The Director promises Cash his freedom, but only if he kills "Hunters" – gang members sent to hunt him – in special areas around Carcer City filmed by CCTV. Cash is first pitted against the Hoods, a gang of dangerous criminals and corrupt police officers patrolling an abandoned area of the city. After eliminating them, he is abducted by the Cerberus, the Director's personal security unit, who take him to another part of Carcer City.
While the Director monitors his actions, Cash is forced to kill more criminals across various abandoned locations, including a white power skinhead gang called the Skinz, a sadistic paramilitary group called the Wardogs, an outlaw gang called the Innocentz (consisting of the Skullyz, mostly made up of Hispanic occultists, and the Babyfaces, a group of pedophiles and mentally challenged murderers), and a gang of former asylum inmates called the Smileys. Eventually, the Director betrays Cash and, after ordering the deaths of his family members, whom he had abducted, tries to murder Cash as part of his film's climax. Cash survives the trap, and escapes after vowing revenge on the Director.
The remaining Wardogs, led by the Director's right-hand man Ramirez (Chris McKinney), are sent to re-capture Cash, and they manage to trap him in a game of cat and mouse. Cash prevails and kills Ramirez and his men, before being found by the journalist reporting on him, who reveals that the Director is Lionel Starkweather, a former film producer from Los Santos who now produces for a snuff film ring. The journalist has acquired enough evidence against Starkweather to get him convicted, but needs Cash to escort her to her apartment to retrieve it. Meanwhile, Starkweather blackmails corrupt police chief Gary Schaffer into sending his men to kill Cash and the journalist, but the two manage to avoid them. After retrieving the evidence, Cash tells the journalist to leave the city with it while he goes after Starkweather.
Pursued by the police and SWAT throughout the subway and streets, Cash is eventually cornered in a train yard and almost executed. He is saved by the Cerberus, who kill the SWAT team and take Cash to Starkweather's mansion so they can execute him themselves. Cash escapes after the Cerberus are distracted when Piggsy (Hunter Platin), a chainsaw-wielding maniac that Starkweather has kept chained up in the attic, suddenly breaks free. Heading to the mansion's upper levels, Cash uses stealth attacks to fight Piggsy and tricks him into standing on a grate, which collapses under his weight, allowing Cash to take Piggsy's chainsaw and kill him with it. After eliminating the remaining Cerberus, Cash confronts Starkweather in his office and murders him with the chainsaw. The media and police arrive at the mansion as the journalist exposes Starkweather's snuff ring and police complicity, leading to Schaffer being criminally prosecuted for corruption. Cash, however, is nowhere to be found.