I'm reading a lot of Manhunt references here and liking it
a lot.
Manhunt formula was great, and i loved it back in the days, there was some polish to do here and there but the potential it to be a new approach to the stealth games was there.
I don't know why no one before ND tried to refine or reinterpret what Manhunt was proposing.(In some sense Siren tried).
Maybe was a concept too unforgiving for the new videogaming audience?
So it's even more great that a major dev, as ND are, is going to experiement on this concept that I really do not know how much the new generations may like, used as they are to storm throught worthless enemies with their unstoppable killing machine avatar.
It think that even if this game is going to sell great, between marketing and ND known quality, there will a little backlash from greener gamers.
BTW my respect for ND has raised even more with this attempt.