Cottonmouth

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CITY
Cottonmouth
From top to bottom, left to left: Skyline of Cottonmouth, the Fisto Sugar Manufactory Depot in Blackwell Island, the Red Light District, the residential area in Wooddale Community Enclave, Dixmor Hospital for the Criminally Insane, another shot of Wooddale, Cottonmouth Sewers and City Center skyscrapers.
Appearance(s)	Manhunt 2
Mayor	Unknown
Population	Unknown
State	Unknown state in Southeastern United States

Cottonmouth is a major city in the Southeastern United States that appears in Manhunt 2.

Although its name is never explicitly mentioned in-game, the name of the city appears on the sewer manhole covers and certain unused textures.

Description

The city is a major coastal city located in a unidentified state in the Southeastern United States. Cottonmouth is much more modern, cleaner, and safer than Carcer City, with skyscrapers in the City Center, as well as domiciled houses and blocks.

Influences

According to Rockstar Games, Cottonmouth is a hybrid of multiple large southern US cities, including New Orleans, Charleston, Atlanta, but not any one in particular.

Etymology

Cottonmouth is a common name for the Agkistrodon piscivorus, a species of viper (venomous snake) that is native to the southeastern United States.

Geography

Cottonmouth is much more modern, cleaner, and safer than Carcer City, with skyscrapers in the area of City Center, as well as domiciled houses and blocks.

Being in a humid-subtropical zone in the southeastern region, palm trees, banana plants and Yucca plants are commonly seen throughout the city. Many of the houses in residential districts are surrounded by palm trees and other trees native to the region.

A mountain is also seen from afar as part of the game’s skydome, seemingly inspired by the Driskill Mountain's natual summit in the real-life state of Louisiana.

Weather

Due to its geographical location, Cottonmouth is very often at risk for hurricanes and is commonly affected by tropical or subtropical cyclones. This real-life fact is used as a plot device to explain the derelict-looking residential areas between the flashbacks and present day events in-game.

As being located close to the Gulf of Mexico, the city experiences thunderstorms very frequently. Ironically, the present day events of Manhunt 2 are only made possible due to an inconvenient thunderstorm.

Television

The only known television station in Cottonmouth is TV-MK. This channel transmits news, weather, talk shows, films, etc.

The name of the station is a play on MK Ultra, a reference to the game's plot.

Crime

Main article: Hunters in Manhunt 2

During the flashback events set around the year 2001, Cottonmouth is a very clean and safe place. However, in the exact same year, a major serial killer hunting would take place after a malfunction in a bioweapon manufacturing-related research experiment conducted by The Project.

The test subject, former San Fierro-based doctor Daniel Lamb volunteer of the experiment, was implanted a "personality sample" of deceased high-skilled government agent and hired assassin Leo Kasper, resulting in a major personality clash inside his mind with the late assassin trying to overtake his mind.

After the assassination of The Project's main financial contributor Stanley Grex in the middle of the Maibatsu Plaza by doctor Lamb (under control of Kasper), a wide-spread manhunt occurred in the residential areas of Cottonmouth, resulting in the imprisonment of Lamb/Kasper.

Six years later, circa 2007, the city is depicted as a very dark, miserable, dirty, and unsettling place, as being devastated by recent severe weather conditions. This gave the opportunity for the rapid rise in crime in the city, including the emerging street gang “Red Kings” trying to take control of the city's Red Light District.

Local strip clubs are also used as a front of recruitment by The Project, as well as being a major S&M dungeon and torture chamber run by The Pervs gang.

Transport

While there are no known subway lines in the city, the Watkins Trainyard is located in the industrial zone, near the Ten Four Trucking company warehouse, implying the city has a functional railway system. The trainyard is located under a unnamed elevated expressway.

A Daschund Buses company was originally planned to appear in Manhunt 2, but was cut during the development. According to logo seen on Steven Walsh's portfolio, the motto of the company was "Cottonmouth's Premiere Public Transport". It was the third concept iteration of the Greyhound-inspired company, after Whippet Express Coach in GTA III and the cut Dash-hound in GTA San Andreas.

Police Department

Main article: Cottonmouth Police Department

Unlike the CCPD in the previous title, the Cottonmouth Police Department don't play a major role in the storyline, making minor appearances in the present day events and being dispatched to capture and kill the Maibatsu Plaza serial killer (a.k.a. Lamb/Kasper) in Wooddale.

They appear to be inspired by the New Orleans Police Department, as evidenced by the similar patches, uniforms and the rankings.

A Police Cruiser of the Cottonmouth Police Deparment. (Rear quarter view)

A Police Maverick of the Cottonmouth Police Department. (Rear quarter view)

Neighborhoods

	City Center The city's busy central business district. At its heart is the Maibatsu Plaza, hosting the Bright Shire Alliance office building, used as a cover by The Project.
	Wooddale Community Enclave Typical southeastern neighborhood. According to Wooddale residents, there hasn't been a major incident in the area for 8 years, until the local police was dispatched to search for a cold-blooded serial killer who was reported to be on the loose around the area.
	Blackwell Island The city's harbor, hosting several factories including the Fisto Sugar Manufactory Depot.
	Red Light District The city's pleasure district is hosting several legal prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and derelict adult entertainment businesses. Home to BDSM creeps and rising necrophiliac street gangs, the area is used for recruitment for The Project.
	TV-MK Studios The city's television studio complex, where all of the Channel 9 TV shows are filmed. Property of The Project, used as a cover for brainwashing experiments.
	Weary Pines Cemetery A large cemetery advertised throughout the city. Only visited in one occasion via hallucination.

In the Grand Theft Auto series

While the Manhunt series is part of the same shared universe as the Grand Theft Auto series' 3D Universe, the city is never mentioned by name in any GTA title. However, several brands from Cottonmouth's Red Light District are advertised in a promotional website for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

Some of the drugs manufactured by The Project, sex shop products and other in-game brands also exists in the HD Universe of the Grand Theft Auto series, as they appear in Grand Theft Auto IV, as a alternative reality version of those brands (for example: H4PP1 and Hingmyralgan were not created by The Project in this reality).