15 Greatest Ever Video Game Anti-Heroes

It's strange to think that anyone in Manhunt could come anywhere near to the title of 'hero'.

James Earl Cash begins the game incarcerated and on death row for seemingly undefinable reasons. He finds himself presented with a strange opportunity on his execution day: if he violently murders his way through the gang-infested neighbourhood he has been dumped in for a snuff film, then he will have his freedom.

The tension ramps up when he is pitted against multiple gangs and mercenaries throughout the city of Carcer. James Earl Cash is clearly an efficient but savage killer, using items such as a brick, broken glass, a plastic bag and a chainsaw to brutally execute his victims.

There is almost nothing making us empathise with this playable lunatic, until it is discovered that members of his own family have been kidnapped to add some twisted drama to this murder porno. Despite being told to free them by the director of the snuff film, they are all later murdered anyway, and Cash is forced to watch their murders capture on VHS.

From here, Mahunt becomes more of a justifiable revenge plot, but after all James Earl Cash had done up to this point for the sake of his own freedom, he is still far from being a good guy.