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THIS GAME IS GREAT!..... for 5 minutes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yep you heard me right, this game is fantastic.. For the first 5 minutes, it gets oooollld sooo fast. Doing the same missions over and over again it just seems so bland. do yourself a favor and go rent this game. you will hate it.

State Of Emergency Falls Flat On Its Face

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

State Of Emergency is definitely not on the "Grand Theft Auto 3" status. Sure there is bloody, graphic violence happening everywhere you turn, but it was a complete letdown for gamers everywhere. The story is about a group called "Freedom" which tries to overthrow the evil Corporation that has taken over the streets and stores everywhere. You receive this simple, beat em' up missions that are very repetitive. For instance, "Protect the hacker while he taps the phone system", "Beat up the Mall Rats to get the scientist's lab box", "Make sure Kim Woo doesn't loose her pawn shop" etc. Plus, they aren't at all thought-provoking and they have no element of fun.

If you've heard that there can be up to 100 people on the screen doing totally different things at the same time, that is partially true. Yes, you can see up to 100 people on the screen at once but they all do practically the same thing and it's not very realisitic. For example, if I walk up to any rioter and punch them in the face, they all crawl up in a ball for five seconds, and then run of without fighting back at all. Plus, they all run in the same pattern and a lot of them often walk into walls. Poorly designed considering all the hype this game received.

Another element this game lacks is a multiplayer mode. With all the bloody fun that this game packs, you cannot play with your friends. It's a real shame, I could see so many different types of multiplayer modes being uses like shoot em' up or more tactical modes using all creative weapons.

I rate this game a 3 instead of a 2 or a 1 because of it's depth and the ability to interact with pretty much everything in the environment. For example, I could pick up a trashcan, lawn chair, box, even limbs from a brutalized body as weapons to fight against other people or to smash cars or store windows. Plus there's a wide selection of weapons to choose from to desroy the rioters of the city. Automatic Shoutguns, uzis, pepper spray, axes, baseball bats, grenades and Molotov cocktails are just a few of the many weapons you can use to torture the people in this game. Plus, if you get tired of doing missions for the Freedom group, you can always play Chaos mode which is a complete destroying mode where you collect points for gang murders, blowing up cars, smashing windows, and slaughtering the evil Corporation.

All in all, this game is definitely quantity over quality. If Rockstar Games spent more time on perfecting its mistakes and making it more detailed and complex than it is now, it could definitely be a top consideration for Play Station 2's Game of the Year.

not even worth a rental

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

state of emergency - PS2 games get worse and worse. it is only fun for the first 15 minutes or so, then you can just throw it away or burn it on the camp fire.

What a disappointment...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This could go as the most over-hyped game of the year. What an absolute let-down!! For what was supposed to be such a great game, it is just mind numbingly stupid. Rockstar, how about adding some precision control to this and maybe some cut-scenes and hmmmmm maybe more spoken word? And can we talk about how TEDIOUS it is to run all the way back through the mall once you've failed the task so that you can run all the way back to try the task again?? I will give the game some credit for the amount of onscreen characters, but beyond that....... And I thought the creators were delaying the release to make the game even better. Shame on me. This one is being traded in ASAP.

Either you love it or you hate it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all I want to start by telling people
that State of Emergency and GTA3 are two very different
games. Do not expect SoE to play like GTA3. SoE is a
beat'em'up game in the likes of Fighting Force(PSX) and
Double Dragon(NES/SNES) while GTA3 is mision based
action game in the likes of Driver(multiplatform),
Wreckless(XboX).

SoE is the type of game that you will either love
or you will hate. Thats why I put it on 3 stars,
for me its around 4 stars.

There are two ways of playing this game. Kaos and Revolution.

In revolution mode missions are you main agenda, weapons
you get here are either given to you or you get from an enemy. Missions
types are basic: kill someone get this, steal this from store,
kill someone, blow this up etc etc.. of course you will find
a lot of resistance along the way. There is this 3D arrow
to guide you to your objective so you won't get lost.

In Kaos mode you basically try to get the highest score possible
by causing trouble and in this mode weapons are just lying on the
floor almost everywhere, they also re-pop by themselves but it
is different everytime they re-pop. You get points killing government
enforcers and gang members as well as blowing up cars, breaking windows
but of course there is a time limit. Every time you kill they will drop a health
and time replenisher so make sure you get em. On the upper right corner you
will see a "bonus", it changes all the time, it will say "x2 Kill gang
members" or "x5 breaking windows" meaning if you do that you
will get times whatever the normal points are. The higher your points
are meaner you opponents are (first agents then military guys and
it goes on and on). This is why I liked this game, revolution
is just a bonus.

All in all a well made beat em up game, seriously don't
expect it to be GTA3, yes both was published by Rockstar games
but they both had different developers.

Oh please.....Let's all get a grip here.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 34
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Its Feb 4th and the game hasn't even come out yet. So stop this senseless hype of this game. None of you have the real version and only a few of you have seen the demo. No wait. I take that back, you all probably work for Rockstar and are creating the hype so more people buy the game. Business is business I guess.

I do plan on buying this game because if its anything near GTA3. It's going to be tiiiight. And to the Rockstar developers, stick with developing and not marketing and hype on amazon.

E

Great Game That Has Been Hurt by Unreasonable Expectations

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

if i had written a review of this game the first day that i played it, i would have given it one star and gone on and on about how much it sucks and whatnot. and especially since i had just gotten maximo that same day and maximo just seemed to be the far richer experience. which it is. but then i put SOE back in the next day and i played the kaos mode, and suddenly two hours had gone by and i had unlocked a new level and i realized what this game was all about. i havent stopped playing it since.

this game distills everything that i loved from grand theft auto 1 and 2 and presents it into a single guilt free game.

i dont know about the rest of you, but gta3 is the first gta game that i actually did the missions. for gta 1 and 2 the only thing i did for hours on end was kill cops and any other random passerby that i saw. but i felt guilty that i was wasting the rest of the game by just doing that and never getting into the story of it.

SOE is best when you do just that. concentrate on the killing, on the mayhem that you are letting loose. its at its best when the level of violence gets so high that fleets of police are waiting for you on the corner, and you just happen to have a chain gun in your hand and you mow them all down, and blood and limbs fall from the sky and paint the wall behind them.

the experience of the game is what you make of it. the pace doesnt pick up until you make it.

dont go into this game expecting a rich, deep experience, because you wont find it there. if go into the game looking for a venue to get out some frustration or have some cathartic release then you will find no better experience.

its fun... while it lasts

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

anyone who has played or even tried this game knows that it is fun. there is no doubt about that. but it is an extremely short game. me and my friend beat it in under a day. anyone looking for a long game look to final fantasy X but if you want a fun, short game, look to this.

Not much replay value

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Basically I agree with most of what has been said already, this game gets old pretty quick. The missons are repetitive and pointless and to be honest this games gives you a headache after awhile. It doesnt have the carefully thought out missons and strategy of a GTA3 nor does it have the graphics of GTA3. It looks like a game that Rockstar threw together in a short time and threw onto the shelves, very dissapointing. There are 2 modes; Chaos, which is basically you running around shooting cops, breaking windows, and shooting weapons in an effort to score as many points as you can in 3 minutes, and Revolution mode, which consists of several pointless missons that get old real quick. After Max Payne and GTA3 this is a letdown for fans of Rockstar games, but I guess everyone deserves to have a bad day. Maybe next time...

Good game though a bit overhyped..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Graphics wise, it's nowhere near the quality of Onimusha, Ico, or FFX. The stores and such look rather bland. You can't even enter them so it seems lacking in that you can't raise hell inside the stores as well. However, this game takes off in terms of action once you've got 10 or more gang members/corporation members on your tail and you manage to pick up the shotgun or grenade launcher. There's lots and lots of weapons to pick up from tasers, axes, pepper spray, swords, Ak-47's, Uzis, shotguns, grendade launchers, etc. The action gets intense as you try to accomplish your next mission while you've got bogies on your tail, bystanders in the way, and a loaded weapon in your hands. What to do? What to do? Well, anything you want. That's what. Gameplay isn't very original or deep. It's just basic, mindless fun with replay value accomplished by trying to unlock other characters and areas.

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