Wire

WEAPON
Wire
The Wire in Manhunt.
The Wire in Manhunt 2.
Appearance(s):	Manhunt Manhunt 2
Also known as:	Barbed Wire (Manhunt 2)
Weapon class:	Green
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Manhunt
Manhunt 2

“Used for strangling opponents, it's silent and quite deadly. This weapon can be seen throughout Starkweather's films. A simple mode of killing, the weapon is made of two handles joined by a razor sharp wire. Used by sneaking up behind a victim and pulling the wire over his head and onto his neck. The wire squeezes the life out of him. Own the signature weapon that is seen throughout Starkweather's features - $75”

―Valiant Video Winter / Spring catalogue, p.10

The Wire is a green class weapon available in Manhunt and Manhunt 2.

Description

• Manhunt
• Manhunt 2

The Wire's use in murder perfectly expresses one of the many fragilities of the human body. Even a thin and durable wire, if applied with enough force, may close the airway of an unfortunate victim and asphyxiate them. If the user is nasty enough, they may have the mind to saw someone's head off with this surprisingly sharp length of wire.

Valiant Video sold garrotes exclusively to their members for $29 each at Valiant-ent.tv's Adult Store. They are light and durable, rust free, and can fit around anyone's neck.

Following Starkweather's last film, Valiant Video sold originals and reproductions of the Wires used throughout his snuff movies to their members only for $75 each.

The Wire returns in Manhunt 2 with a nastier form, its sharp edge is now lined with the small barbs found in barbed wire. Ouch.

Expect to inflict some serious gashes while choking a hunter and new ways on using this to incur as much pain as possible before death.

Appearance/Influence

• Manhunt
• Manhunt 2

Just a length of nondescript wire that's winded into a circle. When Cash uses it to execute, he wraps each end around his hands due to the lack of handles.

It is presumed to be made of a durable metal since it can slice through necks, sawing through flesh and bone with great effort.

Manhunt 2’s version looks more like an actual garrote wire with two wooden handles that are wrapped with each end of the wire.

Additionally, the wire part also looks nastier as it now uses what appears to be razor wire or barbed wire.

Abilities/Properties

• Manhunt
• Manhunt 2

Melee System

While wielding the Wire, the player is able to punch, block, and grapple. It adds nothing new to melee combat and it does the same damage as one's fists in hand-to-hand.

Disposability

As a Green class weapon, the Wire can only execute one hunter before it is lost from the player's inventory.

Silent Executions

The Wire is a Green class weapon, its executions make no noise. The player must still look out for proximity to hunters and their line of sight.

Surface Knocking

For the full page on this mechanic, see Surface Knocking.

With the Wire equipped, the player can knock on surfaces to make one large pulse of noise that travels instantly to attract hunters within its range. Players can tell when they are able to knock on a surface if Cash is holding his Wire close to himself when he's very close to and facing any surface. The player cannot perform any quick attacks or hard attacks in this state until the player exits it via backing off or facing away from a surface. Pressing either the Action button or the Action2 button will cause Cash to swing his Wire-wrapped fist at a surface and make a large pulse of noise. The player is also able to knock on surfaces while pressing against cover to the same effect.

However, the player may still produce the same large pulse of noise without getting close to a surface by simply performing any quick attack or hard attack towards a surface without getting too close to it, otherwise Cash will detect that he is near and facing a wall thus he will knock on it instead.

Decapitation

For the full page on this mechanic, see Decapitation.

The Wire's Gruesome execution beheads the victim, dropping a free Head for the player to use as a lure weapon.

Melee System

While wielding the Wire, the player is able to punch and block. It adds nothing new to melee combat and it does the same damage as one's fists in hand-to-hand.

Disposability

Carried over from the previous game is the Wire's Green class weapon attribute of being lost from the player's inventory after executing one hunter.

Silent Executions

All weapons in Manhunt 2 that aren't firearms have quiet executions, like the Wire. Still, watch out for proximity to hunters and their line of sight.

Surface Knocking

For the full page on this mechanic, see Surface Knocking.

Works the same as the previous game, no new mechanics added.

Decapitation

For the full page on this mechanic, see Decapitation.

Just like the previous game, the Wire's Gruesome execution beheads the victim, dropping a free Head for the player to use as a lure weapon.

Executions

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Manhunt

Type	Execution	Description
Hasty	insert	The player garrotes the target with the wire. After a few seconds of struggling with the target, the target dies and he pushes their corpse away.
Violent	insert	The player strangulates the target with the wire and quickly turns them around to make them kneel and face him while he chokes them to death.
Gruesome	insert	The player wraps the wire around their neck to briefly choke them before kicking their knee pit to make them kneel. The player plants his knee on their back and saws their head off with the wire.

Manhunt 2

Type	Execution	Description	Prompts
Hasty	insert	The player wraps the barbed wire around the target's neck, strangling them and gashing their neck until they die.
Violent	insert	The player wraps the barbed wire around the target's neck, strangling them and gashing their neck. The player stomps on their knee pit to make them kneel before he saws their neck with the wire until they die.
Gruesome	insert	The player pulls the wire up their intercrural and saws their groin with the wire. The pain causes them to kneel and they extend their hand out as one last attempt to stop the player before he shoves their hand away and pulls the wire up against their neck while planting his knee on their shoulder to behead them.
Jump	insert	The player jumps from an elevated position and lands behind the target. He wraps the wire around their neck and strangles them with it, shaking them back and forth, until they fall on their back and he continues to choke the remaining life out of them.

Appearances

Manhunt

• White Trash
• Grounds for Assault
• Strapped for Cash
• Graveyard Shift
• Mouth of Madness
• Divided They Fall
• Trained to Kill
• Border Patrol
• Key Personnel

Manhunt 2

• Ghosts
• Red Light (Wii only)
• Best Friends
• Ritual Cleansing
• Altered State

Gallery

Official Screenshots

Manhunt

Trivia

Manhunt

Unused icon for the "Deliverance" variant of the Wire.

• According to the texture files, a different version of the Wire was originally meant to appear during "Deliverance". It is likely that it had exclusive execution animations for Piggsy, like the scene's variant of the Glass Shard.
  • Also, the Wire was originally planned to appear during Born Again, Drunk Driving, Doing Time, Wrong Side of the Tracks, Brawl Game and Time 2 Die.