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The game puts you on the sets of several fictitious, stunt-heavy movies, including the 007-inspired Live for Two Tomorrows and the Guy Ritchie-inspired Toothless in Wapping. You're to execute detailed driving stunts by following the director's instructions over a radio and several onscreen visual cues. The stunts are constructed mostly out of driving around, through, and over obstacles, but there are more than a few inventive sequences that you have to time just right. If you do it wrong, or mess up the timing of the shot, you have to retake the scene.
The game can be quite a strain on one's patience, however. There's no initial "walk-through," as there would be for a real production, so it takes several passes to even get a grasp of what you're doing. Plus there's a pause for reloading between each scene that can be grating. Still, players receive tremendous satisfaction from mastering a scene.
Gamers may be disappointed in the quality of Stuntman's graphics--it seems only a half-step above Driver 2--but they'll love the handling of these vehicles and the interactivity of the environments. Nearly everything in the game can be moved or broken. The really versatile Stunt Constructor tool lets you play with all kinds of fun toys or tricks, such as jumps, loops, and even cannons. Lay them out in an arena and then drive the course. You have to unlock all but the most basic toys and vehicles by completing scenes, but it's a great way to blow off steam. --Porter B. Hall
Pros:
- Car handling is easy and responsive
- Great game physics with lots of interactive items
- The Stunt Constructor tool lets you wreck stuff in lots of different ways
- Lack of walk-throughs adds a needless level of difficulty to an already challenging game
- There are reload screens between each take
| PLATFORM: | PlayStation2 |
| AGE GROUP: | 13 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Video Games |
| MANUFACTURER: | Atari |
| ESRB RATING: | Rating Pending |
| TYPE: | Video Games, PS2 (PSX2), Sony Playstation (Play station) 2, Playstation2 (Play station2), Action, Adventure, Classics (Classic), Retro, Great Deals (Outlet store) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 742725226395 |
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Customer Reviews of Stuntman
Nostalgic stunts, needlessly difficult At first, I really liked playing this game and I was not too concerned about the reviews saying it was too hard.
You may recognize that the stunts in the game were based on real movie stunts like in Hooper, Dukes of Hazzard, Indiana Jones, and James Bond.
Unfortunately, the game is ridiculously hard and unforgiving, killing most of the fun of playing it. It is a poor reason to give the game longevity by making you repeating the scenes about 20 times to get it somewhat correct to move on in the career mode. In the 1st couple of scenes, you drive a muscle car that doesn't accelerate very well and you are chasing another car. If you fall too far behind, you fail the scene. So if you make even the slightest mistake, you cannot possibly catch up to the lead car.
Before each mission, a cutscene plays that gives you some insight into how stunt work is done, with careful planning and practice, yet when you do the stunt, you have no information about the stunt at all and are reacting to the director barking out orders like "pass on the left" or "hit the barrels" which gives you little time to react. And you have to do all the objectives in series in one take. The physics are unforgiving, and the cars don't handle well at all.
I struggled through this game all the way up to the last James Bond type Movie, where I just got fed up. They finally give you a fast enough car to drive, but its so ridiculously light that the wheels hardly stay on the ground. And its so delicate, that even the slightest bump will flip the car over and wreck it.
So what should have been the most fun mission in the game turned out to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
In summary, playing this game feel like you are threading a needle perfectly the first time, then having to do it over and over and over again. Its nerve-racking, frustrating, and pointless.
Get Grand Theft Auto instead and do your own stunts your own way whenever you want with whatever car you get.
Beyond Driving
Atari and Reflections Interactive teamed up to create an original and innovative driving game. In Stuntman's career mode you start out as a rookie driver and progress though six different movie sets. On each movie you will have to complete three to five stunt sequences. Every time you complete a movie you will get to see a rendered trailer of the film with your stunt sequences in it. You will get to drive all different types of vehicles from sports cars to snowmobiles. There are also three driving games included - precision tests, speed tests and stunt tests. My favorite of these driving games was the stunt tests. There are ten stunt tokens placed throughout a course and you are given a limited amount of time to collect them all. Game trailers are also included for Driver 3, Superman and Splashdown.
The graphics are usually very good but there are occasional jaggies that pop up. The cars also take damage and parts fly off of them. The pedestrians on the street are not very detailed though. The sound is good and the game has a decent soundtrack. The voice acting in the trailers is great. The controls are decent and take very little time to get used to. The steering at first seemed a little stiff but you get used to it.
If you get frustrated easy you should not even attempt to play this game. The levels are challenging and one false move could ruin the entire run. If there is a fault in Stuntman it is the load times. It takes awhile to load in between stunts and if you fail a stunt there is about a ten second load time till you can restart. The game has an average amount of replay value. I really enjoyed this game. There was nothing more satisfying than watching a replay of a stunt you just completed. This game is only recommended for those who are looking for a challenge.