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The Best Bargain You Can Get

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: July 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Now that I have finally found the time to sit down and finish the Italian Job, I feel that I can give it a fair review. I would have given it 4 1/2 stars if I could have, but because it has such a great price..., I decided to go ahead and give it five stars. This may very well be the best [$$] I have ever spent.

If you enjoyed the movie The Italian Job, then you will definitely enjoy this game. It follows the movie almost exactly. You get to play through some of the best scenes in the movie, including the crazy Mini Cooper car chase through Turin, Italy.

This is a mission-based driving game, sort of like the Driver series or Grand Theft Auto III. You begin as a guy who just got out of prison and takes a job that involves stealing gold from the mafia in Italy. There are 16 missions: 8 in London, 6 in Italy, and the 2 escape missions through the Alps. There is a good variety in the mission objectives, although it mostly boils down to driving around trying to complete your objective while avoiding the cops. If the cops see you, they take chase and you have to shake them before reaching your objective. If you destroy your vehicle, run out of time, or if the cops get close enough to get your entire license plate number, then you fail the mission. The difficulty level is just about right. There are a few missions that will cause some frustration but they are not impossible.

In addition to the story mode, there are several extra games to mess around with. You can take a ride around London or Italy to get to know the area using your choice of vehicle. Then there are several mini games, like checkpoint races and stunt tests.

The graphics are not fantastic but they are okay for a PS One game. My major complaint about the game is the difficulty of controlling the car. If you are used to the tight control of PS2 games like Gran Turismo and the aforementioned GTA III, you may have some trouble getting used to the sluggish control here.

With all the bad games for the PS One that are coming out now, seemingly rushed just to make a quick buck, this is probably the best PS One game to come out since the PS2. Rockstar did a great job of recreating the scenes from the movie, especially on the getaway mission. All of the coolest segments of the movie chase are here. You get to drive through the subway, up the big dome building, across the river, and through the sewers. Overall, you could do much, much worse for [$$].

The Italian Job

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Great adaptation to a cult movie. Although not the graphics of Driver, superb gameplay. Very addictive, with some brilliant levels. Can't beat racing through the center of Turin. Across the stadium roof.

So frustrating trying to outrun those police cars. The bonus for me was the arrow showing the direction to aim for. Was such a relief not to have to keep flicking up the map as in so many games these days.

I thought the mini handled excellent. On the whole well worth this price.

Gone Platinum Must Be Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

'The Italian Job' is loads of fun. While Driver sets the bench-mark for this type of driving game, TIJ is not far behind.

In TIJ you can see some of the elements that made Driver so cool; the nice cut-scenes, large environments, smooth scenery and the fact that you can bomb around towns in cool cars.The voices are hilarious and add to a colourful, humourous tone of the game.

The graphics are colourful and great to look at. Gameplay is smooth; cars drive nicely. The sound is good.

With persistence you can get it completed in one go, and it doesn't take too long. The Getaway level is surely one of the most fun, most exhiliarating, and at the same time, most fustrating levels in any PS game - excellent fun. And there's plenty more to do, with extra challenges and cars to use to race around London and Turin like a maniac.

All round a superb game,no wounder it has sold over 200,000 copiies since its launch in Sept 2001 and was No 1 in the charts for 4 weeks.It deserves to go Platinum.

italian job

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

italian job is superb the car's old style and how u have fun and enjoy is really cool.I think everyone should play this game

Really,I'm sorry for you people :( :( :( :(

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well american it seem like you're very late on this game i got it 2 weeks ago ja,ja,ja,ja.......
Now to the point this is an amazing work you get to drive in London,turin,..... there are amazing graphics and there's a very good detail in each of the parts the lights changes and all the cars respect that,if you go too fast the police will try to catch you, and believe me its really hard to get rid of them.the city has its own rules and there's always this jerk who dont respect the way and try to make you miss your little time,because to go for example to King Cross in London (its amazingly made) you only have like 4 minutes.You can always do a little sight seeing in the free ride mode, but nevertheless you wil have those annoying cops trying to get you if you go to fast.the only little problem is saving because its very hard to find the option the first time,by the way its in the options menu,but apart from that its all righty.
The main fact,this is an amazing game its qvery well-made and you will have to be very strongh to turn of your PSX after so much fun.This game and Final Fantasy IX are the games that you must have or buy.

best driving game i've played on the playstation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion TIJ( The Italian Job) is by far the best driving game on playstation 1. It sorta reminded me of rockstar's GTA series except u can't go shooting ppl. I think that the time limit on the missions helps make the game go by faster.
Some of the missions in the game althought seeming pointless r funny none the less. If i had a choice between this game and all the other ps1 driving games i'd definitely choose this. It's funny, action packed, and it's something u can play with u'r friends.

its not better then driver2 and any of the gta games but ok

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is cool but driver2 is a little better than this game well i guess you wont tha reasons why well heres goes

1. driver2 has more big cites such as chicago,las vagas,havana,and rio.and for tha grand theft auto games for tha playstation1 tha cites are big and there's but with three cites is problely enough.and for tha the italian jobtha cites are bigger but compared to tha others like GTAs and driver2 games i still cant why this copy cat game is working its way up to platnum.

2.graphics is ok still like driver1 and just like driver2 graphics but on that stage GRAND THEFT AUTO 2and 1
ok too. now back too the italian job between 1 and 10
i give tha graphics a bitter 7

3. THA GAMEPLAY... now TOONAMI ON CARTOONETWORK gave this game a 7 out of 10 i give it 8 out of 10 i must admit this is a must have though...

italian job will be a classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are a player who likes challenges and racing down streets, this game has it!

The precursor to grand theft auto.

Get good at this game and GTA series driving will be snap.

Slowness is an advantage, but if you are an emulator fan, try that after you finished ps1. However, if you are not GTA hardened, be prepared to get lost until you get a sense of direction.

Try driving without specific goal when too challenged by a scenario. This will keep you from giving up.

As you earn cars and locality, try each car in free ride mode, they arevery different. Enjoyed driving on other side of road
and young
but talented kids loved this game in free ride.

Well worth [the money]

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Italian Job is a great title for [the price]. The game follows the film through London, Turin and the Alps with full cities to drive round in the game and freeride modes

Tha car handling is spot on and the selection of diferently handling cars refreshing.

The London missions start the game off but the escape level in Turin has been described in UK press as the best driving game level to grace the PSX1 and it certainly is very, very good

SO for [the price] you get several game modes, full cities to drive around and the superb getaway scene making the game superb value and an excellent purchase

Actually, more fun than Driver

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what "it's actually great fun - was no. 1 in the UK for quite a while... and theres good reason why. While the graphics may not be amazing, the game is a great laugh (surely that's what counts), and its well worth double what you guys from the US are going to be paying for it!

For [the cost], you simply can't lose. What an awesome deal!

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