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Stuntman - I Hated this Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: July 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Thank God I rented this game - I hated it so much I am compelled to write this scathing review. Stuntman flat out [stinks] - I hated it.

There are two ways to play this game: 1) The Career Mode (read below) and 2) Stunt Arena. Stunt arena is a stadium that allows you to set up and execute your own stunts. There is no score for doing stunts, no difficulty rating, no applause meter, no levels to climb - just set up your ramps and jump stuff. After about 5 minutes...its got old, then boring, then annoying.

Career Mode is ridiculous. The cars handle horrifically, the brake button is the "0" on PS2, which is the opposite of every other driving game in history. Most frustrating is that there is no overview of each stunt, which indicates what you need to do before you even attempt it. Therefore, you blindly go through these routines hoping that you do the right thing.

There are no levels or stages in these stunts, so guess wrong, or make the slightest error - and you start over. Try seeing the same damn scene about 45 times in a row - its like ground hog day.

Most embarrasing for Atari are the graphics and the inconsistencies of the "props". You drive by a fence and suddenly the fence stops you. Drive by a car..and suddenly the bumper gets 15 feet long and trips you up (not making this up - bug filled game).

Do yourself a favor and don't buy, rent, play this....just watch the commericials which totally overrtate the game itself.

The Most Frustrating Game Invented...EVER!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi there.
Let me start off by saying I love movies-they are my passion. Everything about them. My collection holds over 200 VHS and 40 plus DVD's. I also love Playstation 2 Video Games. To have these two things combined into one made me EXTREMLEY excited when I heard about the release of Stuntman. The commercial's on TV made me even more excited-it looked like a great game. The premise of being a stuntman on several movies is a great idea for a game.
So on Tuesday morning, I walked over to the local Blockbuster Video and rented a copy without even looking at the other games. As soon as I got home, I started playing. I was VERY impressed at the beginning. It was very, very fun to drive around London [each film you work on is located in a different city around the world, the first being London] smashing into things, doing chases and barrel rolling the car.
Then the problems started.
The game focuses way too much on detail-if you do one single thing wrong, it screws you up and you have to start from the beginning each time. If you hit the wall just a little bit, you go spinning WAY out of control, and you never have a chance to get back into it-there is very little time, usually 15-25 seconds to do a number of stunts. And each time you fail, you are taken back to the loading screen for some reason-so if you had an idea of why you failed, and have a possible solution, by the time you are back behind the wheel you will have forgotten because of the constant loading.
So I fianlly completed the first film Tuesday night, after many hours of playing, and many hours of frustration.
Then the second movie started, in the country land of USA. Now, I started this movie on Tuesday night and on Thursday morning I am still on the first scene of it [each movie is divided into 3 or 4 scenes, each with 9 or 10 stunts.] This scene has 19 freaking stunts-its impossible!!! One of them has you going off of a jump and through a train-sounds cool, but if you aren't doing everything perfect, then you miss the gap and have to start over RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING!! I was lucky several times to make it through the train, but each time I did, I would come to the part when two huge chimmneys fall down-you have to drive right under them, right before they fall down. This is not possible though. There is probably a 3-4 second gap between them, and they both fall down at the same time. I was lucky enough once to make it under the first, only to be crushed by the second, putting me right back to the beginning. I don't know how it is possible to get past this scene-I have lots of respect for those who can do it. This game almost had me throwning the contoller through the wall. I'm sure there are many people out there who have done this in frustration.
If the developer's could have done one thing to make it a bit easier, it would have been to let us practice each scene first, with no time limit, to get a feel for the area. In most cases, I even got lost, putting me back to the beginning again.
Please don't rent this game, let alone buy it for petes sake!! Stay away, it will give you ulcers or a heart attack.
Thanks for reading, I hope this convinces a few people not to play this [game]

Don't waste your time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game looks good, but plays like poop. If you enjoy being frustrated and angry enough to destroy your PS2, then by all means buy this absolutely irritating game now. Oh, and Test Drive stinks, too. In fact, the two games are almost identical, so don't waste your time on either one...

atari please stop making games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If I could give this "game" zero stars I would...hopefully by now you will see where I am going with this. Talk about annoying, I wanted to throw this game in the trash can.

HORRIBLE!!! HORRIBLE!!! HORRIBLE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WORST GAME IVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE!!! Just like all of Atari's other games they are hard as hell and pointless!!! Although I would recommened this OR test drive if you like getting flaming red hot at you PS2 and wanting to throw it out the window. And(as I've hinted) Test Drive is a horrible game too. TRUST ME dont listen to the commericials for either game because its all lies!!! GTA3 is a MUCH more fun and BETTER game than this "so-called" game. If it was possible to give this a -10000000000000000 stars thats what I'd give it!!! Atari [stinks]!!!

Terrible !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game offers the realism of a sprite based megadrive driving game, the fun of hitting yourself over the head with a lead weight, the visuals of a naked 100 year old, the sound of a badly dubbed kung fu movie

Thank God for Blockbuster

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am so glad I rented this game before I bought it. It is awful. It is so hard and there is no way to change it. In fact, even when the do finally complete a mission, usually after hours and hours of frustration, you figure out it wasn't fun. This game is just not fun. You cannot make a single mistake or you have to start all over and the load times are unbearably long. After 2 days of having it, I took it back. You have no idea what you are supposed to do until you have failed the mission 5 or 6 times. Also, when you have to chase a car, nothing happens to it but all of the AI cars try and hit you. It is rediculous.

Do yourself a favor and get something else, anything else if you want a good game because this one will do nothing but frustrate and annoy you.

Please, waste your money somewhere else

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is super bad. It is difficult and very frustrating. Unlike some games where the challenge is figuring out the puzzle, this game makes you repeat and repeat the same move over and over. The load times are very long and very frequent. I'm sure if you spent years you could get good at it. In my opinion, a game has to be a little fun at first or who else but a masochist will want to play it.

This game literally made me furious. To be fair, driving games usually aren't my cup of tea, but this game is a real turd. The graphics are good, not great, but solid. The only good thing about this game is that I rented it.

If you like extremely hard driving games that take months to master, then this is right up your alley. If you like games that are fun and that you can play the first night without getting very angry, then stay away from this game.

I hated it, I'm going to rent Way of the Samuri again, that is an awesome game.

STINKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is frustrating. Each level or scene, has about 10 stunts to do. in the VERY first scene, u have to go FULL speed and do a 180. First, you have to have the right car or you will end up failing the mission. If you go a couple of mph less than the full speed of the car than you wont jump high enough and the director wont like it. Also, I found myself doing VERY close to a 180 but it didnt count cuase i missed by a couple of degrees. THE COMMERCIAL OVERRATES THIS GAME!!

Warning!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has everything you could expect from the creators of Driver 1 and 2. In terms of graphics and handling it's fantastic, beautifully rendered. But, and it's a big one, this game is HARD, really hard! The Driver series had challenges, but they were surmountable, Driver was fun. This game is not fun. You must perform a series of stunts, but you can only learn each stunt step by step as the Director screams them in your ear seconds before they are performed. Take, for instance, the level where you first must jump over a house, smashing the chimney, then swing around a wide, left turn, pass between two cars with no room for error, jump between two moving trains, where if you don't land perfectly you smash into another car or fence depending on how you land, which can hamper your hard right turn through a burning building, followed by a jump back through one of the trains (funny you don't really seem to accomplish anything here but going in circles). After that bit of loveliness you must wend your way through more very tight squeezes, jump a pool, dodge the second, navigate another obscured narrow passage and hard left turn, race under two falling smokestacks that will likely as not smash you flat, then jump a river, and, the finale, a nitro-aided bridge jump. Don't make any move perfectly and you are doomed to repeat again, and again, and again, and again. I don't even want to think about a car chase down the most populated dirt road in the world. Heed the gamers that say this one takes patience, but you've got to be a great player besides. Intermediate gamers beware, if you're looking for a fun diversion with a little vehicular mayhem DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! Give it a rent and save your cash for Driver 3.

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