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Wreel Off-Roadin' Thrills

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 52 / 55
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am 47 years old. This is only the second review I've writen to Amazon. ... I bought 8 games the first day, including Ridge Racer 5, DOA2, Madden 2001, SSX, Kessen, and Unreal Tournament. They are all awsome games in their own right, and so is the PS2 system in most ways. I like many genre of intertainment. But I love this game. So does a 31 year old friend who played it alone for 5 hours at my house. I played it for over twice that time (making myself late for work one day). There are, as the gamers review points out, many variables and choices to the 4 game modes available, from going head-to-head, to a free roaming mode where you are free to just go off-roading in a 5 mile square of either forest, desert, or mountain snow (it's the same territory as the forest with entirely new techniques). I had fun knocking cars, trucks and RVs into the forest river while in the free roaming mode, while a friend of mine found out that he could go into an eternal free-fall by scaling up the snow-frozen waterfall and driving off the mountain edge of the map. All the vehicles (10 or so) have different handling algorithms and it's fun to watch your car's body parts fly off as you rip through border patrol cars or hit a deep gulley. Driving skills are a must to advance to the highest levels, as well as familiarity with the areas, and some expiriance with gravity effects in the game. The Border Patrol officials get tougher as you progess, attempting to bulldoze you over and trap you for an arrest ('Crazy Taxi' goals, only with cops to stop you!). The mode where you are a member of a team and competing with another team to steal the most contraband from a crashed plane, ect. is fun in a second way, because you're stealing stuff from the other guys as a team (kinda like soccer, only you really SOCK 'em). I also have a Dreamcast (another fun machine), but I've not found anywhere, a better game. Even the kids (7 to 12, boys AND GIRLS) found this game both fun and addictive. This game is truly a good buy, and for a first generation game, hits the limits of displaying the known processing power of the system. But again, the bottom line is it's fun.

You will enjoy this game.........trust me.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you've ever longed for an interactive driving environment, from mowing down herds of buffalo to terrorizing unsuspecting families in their RV's--this game is for you. IT IS FUN. Me and my pal were killing ourselves laughing. In order to justify most of the potential violence in this game, the makers have adopted a sort of "Warner-Bros." attitude to the people and animals that you run down. After hitting them, they fly up and away in the most dramatic fashion, but they always get up for more (and become scared of you, trying to run away--in vain of course!). You can lay in wait at a traffic light, knock it over and watch the cars wipe out as it falls on them. You can stalk an RV, ram it hard, and after it tips, push it along the road and over the side of a bridge into the river. You can laugh with delight at ice-fishers desperately trying to run away from your carnage-craving car, to no avail as their feet slip and slide on the ice.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! In case your so inclined to actually play the missions in the game, it will provide hours and days of re-playable fun.

Highly recommended (especially for those of you who need stress-relief)

Oh yeah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: October 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A hybrid of the realism of Driver and the sick twisted objectives of GTA comes an unexpectedly cool Smuggler's Run. I'm the first to admit that...sure the drug smuggling and being chased by cops while trying to deliver the goods is great and exciting, but what I really enjoyed was the joyriding. Just driving responsibly and WHAM, run over a hiker. Or WHAM a train. Or flying down a snowy hill to ram a camper van into a frozen lake. Oh it's fun. A Tipper favorite for sure. All it needs to make it a perfect game is a little more GTA blood and guns sprinkled with some Twisted Metal/ Vigilante 8 massive weapons of destruction. I bought three other games at launch: Tekken,Orphen,and Ridge Racer but Smuggler's Run has taken up the bulk of my gameplay time. BUY IT.

A highlight in the lackluster initial release games pack!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: October 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

So far this is the only game that i bought when i purchased my PS2, and i'm glad i chose this one. Not only is the premise of it great, but the graphics are just mindblowing. No fogging of the backgrounds at all, anything you see you can drive to and on. Don't even get me started on how much fun it is to run over the hikers and the cops blocking my path.

I highly reccommend this game, hours and hours of fun. It also has a good amount of 2 player options and gameplay choices. Only problem i've found so far is the soundtrack is pretty weak.

This is a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: January 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like being chased after by 6 cops who are faster than you, and are will do anything in their means possible to stop you, including ruin their cars, this is the game for you. In single player mode there are enough missions to keep you playing a whole long time. I myself am only on mission 12 and I have been playing for one day. it starts off easy but once you reach the double digit missions it gets a whole lot harder. As for multiplayer mode, it is really sweet. My favorite thing to do is to just free ride around with my friends and explore the levels( snow, desert, forest) which are very extensive. I'd hafta say climbing mountians in this game is really fun. Anyways, if you like car games, and if you like being chased by the cops and having a deadline on your time to deliver the goods, this is definetly a game you would like.

Addictive FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Smuggler's run is a fast, fun and addicting game. I highly recommend it. I have tekken tag, Madden, and Ridge racer.. this one is by far the best (madden comes in second). I love the fast 3-D "tag" action. I think the graphics are very good.. it's loads of fun smashing into stuff and running over people and animals... its all very cartoonish violence -- bug's bunny stuff. Get this game.. you'll have fun!

Smugglers Run ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: October 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A friend has a modified import PS2, the game is already for sale. SO i bought it even though who knows when I will get my PS2. Anyway, the game is simply amazing, in graphics and play.

From what I've seen most of the new PS2 games' graphics don't look much better than dreamcast but Smuggler's Run does. Cool game modes even though I don't have them all mastered yet. THe police are vicious!!

Cool game, can't wait to get my PS2.

Smuglers Run

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game! It is full of exciting tracks that seem to go on for ever and insane graphics that make this game very realistic but at the same time a great virtual game. If you are looking for a game that has you on the run from the law or just plain offroading it than this is the game for you. Trust me this game will blow your mind. For all of you who are thinking of buying PS 2 get this game for it and you will not be dissapointed.

Crazy Taxi in the mountains

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is just like crazy taxi except you don't have to stop to pick anybody up. The arrow is the same, you just have to drive and pick things up and drop them off. No stopping, find the triangle of lights and drive through it. One problem, you got cops to worry about, they can ram you like there is no tomorrow. You can run over deer, run into RV's and watch the driver fly through the window, and many more. It's fun and challenging.

This game is always fun to play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The games graphics are truly amazing! There are no glitches in it what so ever. The game has non stop action, and you don't stop for nothing. :-) You can drive as far as the eye can see, and when I say that, I mean it. If you look way off in the distance and see a hill, you are able to drive up it! Theres miles of terrain to drive on. The enviorments are: Dessert, Forest, and Winter Theres all kinds of vehicles too like SUV's to Dune Buggy's. If you want ONE driving game, this is it. I'd also would strongly recomend Midnight Club Street Racing for the Playstation2.

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