subject: Spy Hunter [print this page] Should you choose to accept these daring reconnaissance missions, you'll travel to Panama, England, the Middle East, Venice, and other exotic locations around the world. Each location is rendered with a high degree of realism and provides recognizable landmarks and scenery. Throughout, you're the hunter as well as the hunted, pursued by enemies over land, on water, and in the air. Your mission is to take on NOSTRA, an out-of-control multinational corporation headed by an evil madman who's threatening the world.
As SpyHunter, you must always be ready for heavily armed enemy vehicles that lurk around every corner and strike at the first site of the Interceptor. But you have a steady supply of weapons trucks that load you up with machine guns, missiles, lasers, and counterattack weapons such as oil slicks, smoke screens, and cluster mines. Each successful attack gets you one step closer to revealing who SpyHunter is and what he's ultimately after.
Next-generation 3-D design, explosive weaponry, high-tech defensive mechanisms, and, yes, the car, all combine to offer pulse-pounding speed and strategy.
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Midway's classic arcade game finally gets taken to the next generation in this PlayStation2 update. Unlike most remade classics, this game doesn't use its namesake as a crutch but rather stands on its own merit. Paradigm Entertainment is developing the game, and it bears more than a striking resemblance to the company's excellentBeetle Adventure Racingfor Nintendo 64. It combines the original's car combat and nifty weapons with Paradigm's penchant for designing slick levels filled with secret paths. The theme song even gets an update as Saliva performs a cover of "Theme from Peter Gunn" for the soundtrack.
Gameplay is already very tight. We got to play half of the game's 14 missions, which take place throughout Panama, Key West, England, Germany, France, the Middle East, and Venice. Players control the versatile G-6155 Interceptor. The vehicle's main incarnations are as a car or boat, but when it takes on too much damage it sheds a layer, transforming it into a motorcycle and jet ski. Classic defensive weapons such as the smoke screen and oil slick are accompanied by new devices like the flamethrower. From the beta version we played, it's easy to see thatSpyHunterwill be one of the best remakes in years.--Raymond M. Padilla
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Spy Hunter - Amazing upgrade of old game!
By jamesh-lantern-media
Just got this game yesterday... I loved the arcade game Spy Hunter when I was a kid, I spent many quarters playing it...
When I heard that they were gonna give it the PS2 treatment, I was thrilled...Altho a little bit skeptical that they werent going to make true to the original...
I neednt have worried...This game has captured the feel of the original game with the plot and gameplay.. AND it has some of the most awesome graphics I have ever seen in a videogame.. This game is a cross between Gran Turismo 3 (which I hate, but i think the graphics are awesome) and the original Spy Hunter...
Controls are excellent, movie sequences make sense, and missions are manageable (not too easy, not too difficult (like Twisted Metal for PS2 - Sheesh!))
Awesome remake of an awesome game!
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
DIFFERENT STYLE GAME FOR PS2, BUT VERY FUN AND ADDICTIVE!!!
By A Customer
I bought this game after reading the raving reviews and found that I enjoyed it as much as the other reviewers. I expected this to be a fun and unique game, as I was an owner of the original Spy Hunter, made for the original Nintendo. I was addicted and happy with the original, as I am with its successor, Spy Hunter for PS2.
The game puts you in the driver's seat of a high-tech, gun-shooting, missile launching, smoke and oil spraying [and more] car/boat. This game is unique in that you control a high-tech car/boat, and in that is an original type of game.
