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24: Definitely The Game To Play!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I received this game as a gift from a friend of mines who works on FOX, and played this game for about an hour or two on his PS2. And after reviewing this game, I must admit that the graphics were quite stunning, the storyline was quite amazing, and the storyline itself does indeed follow the same single-day format like it was shown on Season 2 and Season 3 on 24. The only problem was that there were many times where the storyline doesn't follow the same exact order like Season 2 and Season 3, which sometimes gets me confuse with who's what...and what was I suppose to do.

Part of the reason for this seems to be that the game only focuses on the actions of the hero-type folk, like Jack and Tony. The show, on the other hand, switches back and forth between CTU, bad guys, the President and other connected characters, which essentially buys enough time for monotonous actions for each side of the law. For example, while a group of CTU folk are traveling to scene, the show would then cut to terrorists or whoever as they plot their evildoings. Cut back five minutes later and the CTU agents have arrived. As the game doesn't (or at least hasn't yet in just over five hours) cut solely to the bad guys, there isn't any of this "good guy down time" for them to cover up.

There are a couple of early examples of this in the game. In one instance, Tony and Sean, a new analyst at CTU, are cross-referencing a list of bodies found at a location and those who were supposed to be at the scene of the crime. One name doesn't match the bodies, so Tony says that they should talk to him. The camera immediately cuts to show Jack trailing someone, which lasts about 20 seconds. The next cut shows President Palmer on-screen at a live press conference, which lasts about five seconds, and then you see that Tony is watching this feed in his car as he's pulling up to talk to the suspect. In other words, it only took 25 seconds for Tony to get from the inside of CTU, into his car and then drive to his destination....which makes this game quite "odd" and "unreal."

To me, I believe that the designers are not taking to seriously of the realism of the game, but rather just wanted to speed up the pacing of the game. It does work to keep things moving, but it's a bit of a change from what you'd expect to see on the show, which is somewhat odd considering how closely other aspects of the presentation matches the program.

Despite that controversy, there are some good things about this game (obviously). The most impressive thing I found so far is how well the cut-scenes match the show's cinematography. There's a hand-held quality to them, plenty of zooms, tight focus shots and such that really match the work on the show. Some of the in-game conversations are a little more generic and videogame-like, but the preset, directed stuff I've seen so far is great. It's one of the things that makes the show seem so urgent and chaotic (which is a great thing), and the game has done well so far in matching that feel. The characters also look rather excellent and very closely resemble their real life counterparts.

But overall, to not bore you to death, this game is totally awesome, and is a must have for all 24 fans. I would definitely recommend buying this game, if not...at least renting it. It's a really cool game to play and very easy game to beat. Overall, I'll give this a 8.5/10!

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME... A MUST OWN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the show, but the game is so much better. It is loaded with action, strategy and excitement. I have never been happier with a game. Buy it now!

BE Jack Bauer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have only had this game for half a day as I am writing this and have completed the first few missions. 2k games has hit a homer with this one !! They have captured the look feel and excitement of a new "season" of 24 in this game. The voices of the actual actors are here and the feel and suspense are as well. Controls are easy to learn. Anyone who has played any third-person action games will get the hang of it in no time. I love being able to defuse bombs (or try....LOL) and interrogate suspects. You really feel into this game as if you ARE Jack Bauer. If you are a fan of 24 and have a game system, then why are you sitting there ?? ORDER THIS and let the excitement begin !!

Avid 24 fan since Season 1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are three sole premises that makes 24 one of the greatest Action/Dramas on Television.

1. Jack Bauer
2. Real-time events
3. Kill Terrorists

You take those three factors away and 24 doesn't exist as the drama we know it. Each factor plays a key role in this new "long day" for CTU Field Operations Director, Jack Bauer. Based in Los Angeles, the opening scene begins with Jack's infiltration of a cargo ship full of terrorists in possession of a poisonous gas. Each scene is delicately blocked out to show multiple events happening at one time. Then you are reverted back to a single screen of Jack doing what he does best. Killing terrorists. Some great basic features are in this game as with other 3rd person perspective games, similar to Getaway and GTA. You will fire a gun, run around in third person, target in, and then kill terrorists. The only difficulty will be adjusting to the camera movement that you have to constantly be in control of. But once used to juggling both analog sticks at the same time, it'll become second nature to you. You may also give the terrorists an opportunity to surrender and be taken into custody. But I'll leave that option for the Alias fans who play this game. The minigames (unlocking doors, interrogation, disarming bombs, satellite imagery) are just that, timed, precision-based sub-games. These can be VERY difficult/frustrating at first. Now, why is this game 100% everything it's supposed to be? Sound and Voice acting.

Keifer Sutherland (Jack) and Reiko Aylesworth (Michelle) are phenomenal. You would never be able to tell that you aren't watching an episode of 24. The rest of the cast is here including the voices to characters: Chase Edmonds, Chloe O'Brien, Tony Almeida, President David Palmer, Vice-President Jim Prescott, Ryan Chapelle among others a little more "secret". With the soundtrack by Sean Callery you have the complete "24" experience. It really is the voice-acting that let your eyes believe that you are living a day between season 2 and 3.

If you LOVE 24, you MUST get this game.
If you LIKE 24, you will find it is rather a short game but enjoyable in gameplay and story.
If you HATE 24, then you most likely are waiting for Bachelor: The Game to come out.

Jack Bauer Happy Hour!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having waited what seems like FOREVER for this game to come out, I have to say I was a bit worried that it would be terrible.

Immediately upon playing, however, I found that my fears were washed away by a sea of awesomeness! Right away you notice that the menus and navigational interfaces are all smooth and designed well, which is a good sign.

Once you get control of Jack, you sit there for a moment and I zoomed in to get a good look and then it hits you: YOU ARE JACK.

Worth the price of the game alone.

I've only played it for 3 hours, but I had to put my thoughts up here. If you've watched the show obsessively and thought, man wouldn't it be so great to be Jack? Now is your time to shine.

It's so much fun. It pulls from Grand Theft Auto, Splinter Cell and a bunch of other games to make the most radical supergame of them all. It might not be as perfect as most games, but its WAY BETTER than you'll think it's going to be and if you love Jack, then you don't need to be sold on this. You already have it.

a solid game graphics and story wise.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game nails the shows presentation to a t. like i said in the title the graphics and story are very good. that combined with the voice acting and presentation make this game a lot better than it really is. it's a little on the short and simple side. i found i enjoyed it the more i got into it. it combines several gameplay styles. some are good and some are not so good(driving). but the shooting levels and sniper level is a blast. if you're a fan you can't go wrong with this game. if not maybe a rent would be better to see how you might like it. overall though the positives outweigh the negatives and will keep you hooked til the end.

Perspective from a die hard 24 fan.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I've noticed that a lot of these reviews were written after only playing for a few hours. If you are a real fan of the show I think your "two-thumbs-up" attitudes will and should change drastically upon finding out what the terrorist threat actually winds up being.

***SPOILER ALERT***

The terrorists' "brilliant" plan to bring L.A. to it's knees is to somehow drill deep, deep beneath the city's surface in not 1 but 10 key locations along known fault lines where they've managed to apparently obtain permits and set up fake construction sites that have garnered zero suspicions from city officials and then set off powerful bombs simultaneously activating an earthquake so devastating that the entire city of Los Angeles will be leveled.

This idea is so ludicrous that not even Stewie Griffin would attempt it. So ok, I thought to myself, this is a retarded idea but no one ever accused terrorists of being the pointiest drywall screws in the box so clearly CTU will foil this idiotic plot or at least this will have just been a decoy plot to distract our heroic agents from a much more realistic threat happening somewhere else in the city, right? No.

One of the bombs actually goes off triggering a massive 8-point-something earthquake. *sigh* Jack jumps in his car to return to CTU and while trying to navigate an earthquake stricken downtown L.A. his SUV plummets into a 12 foot chasm that has opened in the middle of the street. So I'm supposed to believe that in the 24 universe between seasons 2 and 3 the city of Los Angeles suffers catastrophic land displacement effectively rendering the landscape completely unusable, is then somehow flattened back out and totally rebuilt all before season 3 starts and then is not so much as mentioned in the 3 subsequent seasons? Give me a flippin' break. I would buy this in an episode of G.I. Joe or maybe the Power Rangers but in 24? You have got to be kidding me!

I am so thoroughly disappointed by this story line that I almost can't even bring myself to finish the game. Despite the great voice acting by the main characters I can't take a thing they say seriously anymore knowing the asinine nature of this plot.
This idea is flat out ridiculous and I know for a fact that a story like this could never have gotten aired on an actual season of 24. The most disappointing thing about it all is that this came from an actual writer from the show! I just don't understand what happened here.

While this game does have some redeeming qualities including great voice acting by the main characters (and I emphasize the main characters because the enemies and secondary players have arguably some of the worst dialogue and delivery in recent video game history with armed gunmen CONSTANTLY asking calmly in the midst of a shootout "Who are you?" or "What are you doing here?" over and over and over again. It like you HAVE to kill them just to get them to stop asking stupid questions. End lengthy tangent.) great models, fun ragdoll physics and superbly recreating the look and feel of the show in the cut scenes, it just isn't enough to detract from this completely outlandish plot.

You could also tell throughout the game that a lot of corners were sloppily cut, like half-second engine sound samples that loop abruptly making your SUV sound more like a floor buffer for instance.

This is an example of an ok game that could have easily been a phenomenal game. I guess Splinter Cell has spoiled us by setting such a high standard in this genre but 24 could have come so much closer if not for such an implausible story. If liking this game is what it takes to be a REAL 24 fan then... I don't know how to finish that sentence, but I truly am a die hard 24 fan and I hate to say that I don't really like this game. I refuse to accept it as the "untold story" between seasons 2 and 3. Sorry.

Live a day in the life of Jack Bauer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 33 / 51
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you have ever wanted to step into the shoes of Jack Bauer... this is it. 24: The Game is your chance to become CTU Agent Jack Bauer and be the hero that thwarts terrorist threats. The one thing that makes this worth playing is the fact that Kiefer Sutherland and many of the regular cast members from the television series actually do the voice-over acting in the game making you feel as though you are really playing a day from the series. The following takes place between Seasons 2 and 3. As Jack Bauer, you will occassionally receive updates from CTU from Michelle Dessler on your cellphone and receive important data files on your PDA to hack into security programs and when you fail to complete your mission objectives, Chappelle will chew you a new one, just like in the show.

It would seem, at least superficially, that 24: The Game certainly has all the main ingredients to translate the landmark series into an entertaining video game in spirit, but it definitely has its technical shortcomings, and by shortcomings I do mean short. For one, the difficulty level is so easy that any novice player could complete the game in far less than 24 real hours. Events do not occur in real-time as they do in the show and if you thought they cheat time in the show you will burst out laughing here. Chances are you will complete each "hour" in under 15 minutes. What could have been a perfect opportunity to bring the series' trademark real-time format to the game console by creating more elaborate mazes, riddles, and threats to complete in 60 "real-time" minutes is rushed, however, the show's familiar digital countdown clock does start ticking down when you only have a few minutes to finish your objective before time expires and elevates the suspense just like in the show. Unfortunately, most of the objectives are so easy to complete that any 6 year old kid would have no difficulty beating the clock.

The cutscenes are entertaining and capture the look and feel of the show but the in-game graphics could have been improved by utilizing more realistic bitmaps and better 3D modeling engines that will make you wish it had been built on a Metal Gear Solid core. The auto-targeting system is severely lacking and deficient. If you have played any one of the recent James Bond games from Electronic Arts, the auto-targeting system is much easier to engage and far more accurate including the sniper zoom that would have been a really useful function in this game. The driving levels have pretty shoddy steering controls compared to Grand Theft Auto. Even the driving levels in From Russia With Love and Everything Or Nothing are more exciting to play than the crude driving engine built into 24. The 360 degree camera pan is also somewhat jerky and the framerate is occassionally choppy and the switch between stealth mode and cover is really lame and does not disengage easily. If it wasn't for the involvement of the shows' major cast members doing the voices, Sean Callery's original music score and the entertaining cut scenes, this game could have been a complete disaster. How I wish that this game had been available on the Xbox console instead but I guess we have to take our man Bauer any way we can get him. I guess that is just what it takes to be Jack Bauer, you just have to get through the day no matter how bad it is.

I Quit

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and story are fantastic, but the driving sequences are absolutely horrible, and the controls overall are just bad. EVERY vehicle in this game drives like a seven horsepower go cart.

Even more annoying, in my opinion, is the constant character switching. Jack Bauer is the coolest character, the character that I most enjoyed playing, but so far I've only spent 1/4 of the time in his shoes. Too much of the time is spent acting out the adventures of peripheral characters that aren't very exciting.

At this point, I'm giving it up without finishing because it's not worth it. I'm very dissappointed.

Like James Bond but 20 times better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. My one complaint is sometimes the driving gets crappy and hard to manuever, but otherwise great game. Great action and such a good variety of games to play.

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