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The original was more fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So they jazzed up Spyhunter for 2003. Whoop-de-doo! Car drives well, but the courses are difficult to frustration. There's only one good thing about this game. If you enter OGSPY at the name screen, it'll bring up the original Spyhunter game from the 80s! It's the only reason for owning this game.

Spy Hunter.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a drive around blow the hell out of everything game. You get to drive a highpowered car that can change from a land car to a boat. and if you really suck a motorcyle. Which is what i spent most of the time as for lack of health. The only place you get to get repaire is when your near your weopens van or boat which is usually toward the end and plain useless. Fairly guick Only 65 objectives with about 15 going to the Training missions. Lots of weopens. Youll have to win missions in order to get most of the other than the oil,machine guns and unguided missles

Defensive
Oil slick which can seriosly mess up anyone's day, if there behind you
Smoke screen. does exactly what it says obsructs the view of the cars behind you. great to use on before corners.
Fire. another rear facing weopon that will leaves your oppnents behind you sizzling

Offensive.
Machine guns. 9mm 15mm and 25mm. Takes out most enemy with ease
Unguided missile. You'll have to lead your targets
Guided Missles. Lot easier to use. Comes in single and swarmer which is 4.
Emp. Does something to mess with electronics and disable bombs.
Rail gun. Not sure never used it.

rent the game first to see if you'll like.

Not as fun as arcade original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is short and has glitchy graphics that slow down and freeze up all the time. The game itself is pretty good but is way to short. I beat it in 1 afternoon. The xbox version comes with the original also. I played that longer than the actual game. This game is good for renting if you want a night of gaming but way to short to buy.

I got this for the original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

To access the original Spy Hunter, type "OGSPY" for your player name in the player entry screen. The original is the biggest reason that I got this, and it is still a lot of fun, once I got used to the controls.

The original game always freezes up on my X-Box after playing it for 15-30 minutes, and it does not save high scores.

The new game is a very mediocre mix between a driving game and a shooter. You have to re-try the levels over and over until you get them perfect, including each of the sub-missions, which can get to be repetitive and monotonous. I wish they would re-make Autoduel.

Short but SWEET

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well this game has made a earlyer approch on the PS2 this year, now they are putting it out for XBOX and GameCube. There isn't going to be much changes from the orignall PS2 version.

Well this game provides lots of action with its very high number of manuvers and weapons u can do. The graphics are pretty good. But, the game has one big flaw and that is its TO SHORT and can be extremely easy at certain times. I reccamend when it comes out on XBOX to go out and rent it. You'll love the action and be crying for more when your done.

It has it's ups and downs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although this game has not came out for XBOX I have played it on Playstation 2. I can and will tell you some things about this game. The graphics are good but not great, the missions are fun unlike wreckless, you get to use a varity of weapons as you progress through the game, but what bothers me is that you can redo a mission over and over again completing sub missions untill you beat it. You should have to do it all in one to make it more challenging. When you shoot foot troops they break like playdo which gets very annoying after a while. Not to mention that you can transform to different vehicles such as a boat a motorcycle and more. I reccomend this game to everyone.

This game rocks!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game totally rocks. The graphics are a little worse that the other xbox titles out there, but it is way more fun. You also get the original game which is classic old school.

This is for sure the best driving game on xbox even though it is a little short.

Like a James Bond car chase without James Bond

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although some people think it isn't, Spy Hunter for Xbox is a great game. As the title suggests, Spy Hunter is very much like a james bond car chase w/o james bond. Actually, it's so like a james bond car chase that the third level, venice, looks and feels just like the venice car chase in "Moonraker". Spy hunter is a combat driving game. You drive along the endless highway guns a blazin' killing enemies. If you inflict too much damage, you will automatically turn into a motorcycle, or, if in the water, a high-speed jet ski (a.k.a. speederboat). You could also go into the weapons van to get full ammo and health. Now, killing enemies is not the only thing you do in each level. You also have objectives, such as "defuse the bombs", "destroy the comms-towers", or "activate the satcoms". You get a wide array of weapons. You get:

9mm Machineguns
15mm machineguns
25mm machineguns
unguided rockets
guided rockets
oil slick
flame thrower
smoke screen
emp launcher

rail gun

These are the guns you get to dispatch enemies. Oh, and the machineguns sound SO COOL! Each machinegun 9mm, 15mm, and 25mm, has a totally different sound, and each one is better than the last. They're awsome!

(out of 5)

Graphics: 3

The graphics are pretty good, but not the best. They are clear, though, so you can make out enemies and objects clearly. The lighting and explosions when you fire machineguns are great.

Sound: 5

The sound, as mentioned above, is great. Each gun has it's specific sound, and the sound is ingenious, especially the machineguns.

Gameplay: 5

It's a racing game! Of course the gameplay is good! You drive around shooting enemies while doing objectives in a fexed period of time. The controls are good, too.

Multiplayer: 4

In multiplayer is pretty good. The only problem is that you have to complete all objectives in a level to unlock a level in multiplayer, and each level has it's own mode of play (chicken hunter, spy race, satcom collect), so you can't, for example, do spy race in venice because venice is and always will be a satcom collect level. However, that doesn't bring down the score because it's so fun to use your guns and gadgets on each other no matter what level.

Difficulty: 4

The reason the difficulty got a 4 out of 5 is because the game can be very hard at some times, but it's not impossible. You can still beat it.

Overall: 4 1/2

Although this game gets a 4 1/2, it's so fun that it deserves a 5. Besides, 4 1/2 rounds to 5 so it gets a 5 anyway.
Whoever likes racing or shotting stuff should buy this game. It's great.
ALSO: If you put in OGSPY as your codename, you'll get to play the original 1983 spyhunter!

Amazing driving game, the best feel of any I have tried.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a 32 yr. old who enjoyed the original in 1983. Spy Hunter was my favorite arcade game of all time, so I loved this vastly improved XBOX version. The car is actually easy to drive, which is refreshing compared with other home games. Nice compromise between realism and simple fun. The qualifying course is imaginative and very entertaining. Unlike some other reviewers with limited attention spans, I enjoyed the fact that you cannot progress to other levels before completing the qualifying course. This quality is something that is missing from some modern games. The qualifying stage is alone worth the $... bucks for the game.

Dont bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Of the 15 or so games I own for the X-box this is the only one I think is a total loss. This game held my interest for all of about 5 minutes. And the "Multiplayer" games that you have to first unlock by beating tracks in single player mode are a complete joke. Dont waste your hard earned money on this one.

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