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Beware of this game if you like Grand Theft Auto 3

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I concur with the negative reviews. To echo: no checkpoints, disappointing graphics, annoying long static screens between attempts, short missions that don't forgive tiny mistakes. The game is worthy only of a PS1 console (four years ago) and it is the first video game that made my thumb hurt (X button for accelerate) since Enduro by Activision 20 years ago. I am gleeful that I only RENTED it after seeing the slick ads on television.

I gave up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First, I am not a big-time gamer. I play the occasional game. I thought Stuntman looked like fun, all those cool stunts similar to the movies I grew up watching. However, after several hours of frustration I had managed to complete only a couple of stunts. The cars handle badly, the timing is very hard, even little things like a road sign stop your car like a steel wall. The reload time is terrible. If you have tons of time on your hands and live and die for gaming, maybe you will like the challenge. I have a life outside the PS2 so I will look for a game that is a little less demanding of my time.

STINKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is frustrating. Each level or scene, has about 10 stunts to do. in the VERY first scene, u have to go FULL speed and do a 180. First, you have to have the right car or you will end up failing the mission. If you go a couple of mph less than the full speed of the car than you wont jump high enough and the director wont like it. Also, I found myself doing VERY close to a 180 but it didnt count cuase i missed by a couple of degrees. THE COMMERCIAL OVERRATES THIS GAME!!

Warning!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has everything you could expect from the creators of Driver 1 and 2. In terms of graphics and handling it's fantastic, beautifully rendered. But, and it's a big one, this game is HARD, really hard! The Driver series had challenges, but they were surmountable, Driver was fun. This game is not fun. You must perform a series of stunts, but you can only learn each stunt step by step as the Director screams them in your ear seconds before they are performed. Take, for instance, the level where you first must jump over a house, smashing the chimney, then swing around a wide, left turn, pass between two cars with no room for error, jump between two moving trains, where if you don't land perfectly you smash into another car or fence depending on how you land, which can hamper your hard right turn through a burning building, followed by a jump back through one of the trains (funny you don't really seem to accomplish anything here but going in circles). After that bit of loveliness you must wend your way through more very tight squeezes, jump a pool, dodge the second, navigate another obscured narrow passage and hard left turn, race under two falling smokestacks that will likely as not smash you flat, then jump a river, and, the finale, a nitro-aided bridge jump. Don't make any move perfectly and you are doomed to repeat again, and again, and again, and again. I don't even want to think about a car chase down the most populated dirt road in the world. Heed the gamers that say this one takes patience, but you've got to be a great player besides. Intermediate gamers beware, if you're looking for a fun diversion with a little vehicular mayhem DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! Give it a rent and save your cash for Driver 3.

Outstanding!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great!What's so diffrent about it from other games is that you never get sick of it.No matter how many tries it takes you to beat a scene(wich will be many times)you never get tired of it.Sure the first time it loads it takes a little while.But after that, it just takes about 10 seconds.This game is so great and so fun, that when I grow up, I want to be a stuntman!

Grand Auto Theft 3 is the Way to Go

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
Car handling is easy and responsive
Cons:
Lack of walk-throughs adds a needless level of difficulty to an already challenging game
There are reload screens between each take

I would have probably rated it 2 stars but the fact that Grand Auto Theft 3 is out there I gave it a 1. Go to Grand Auto THeft 3. You won't regret it.

The Hardest Game To Date- Ben N.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In past experience i have played well over an estimate of 200 games and out of all those games i found that StuntMan is not a game its a challenge there is no game to it its thinking without the brain its do your best and dont mess up because if you do you will not only fail but will have to wait the 2 minute load time which may seem like not a long time but when you want to start the stunt over and marvel at the challenges true spectacular colors it is a long time this is a 5- star challenge and isnt for the impatient i noticed that the average amount of stars for this challenge estimated up to 3 stars well that is what most people want you to think but the truth is that this game is hard yes) but it is also meant for hardcore gamers so if you a newbie back off and buy yourself a diddy king game this one is for the big boys surely and most likely they will make a stuntman 2 only then will these (1-star reviewers) notice that it is such a great challenge Stuntman is hard but worth time

Lame

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Stuntman puts you behind the wheel as a stunt driver in six films that lovingly knock off classics ranging from 007 to Indiana Jones to the Dukes of Hazzard. The best label for the gameplay is a cocktail that blends Pilotwings with Gran Turismo's license tests: Hurtling along preset paths, you must guide a vehicle through a precise series of jumps, swerves, and other hair-raising maneuvers. The requirements for success are unforgiving and demanding; if you lag behind even slightly or deviate from the path in the smallest way, it's stunt over, and you have to start again from the beginning (apparently, the directors of these films don't edit). As a result, this game is truly very hard, and the absence of difficulty levels or even checkpoints means no mercy for less-hardcore gamers looking for a break. Basically, Stuntman is about being perfect-and incessantly repeating a stunt until, at long last, you get it exactly right. Adding to the frustration, the game's physics sometimes feel wrong: Your car will often wreck in goofy, weird ways; fences that break in some places are impenetrable barriers in others; and the like. If all that doesn't turn you off, bump the Fun Factor up to 4.0 because Stuntman deserves major props for its unique concept and thrilling stunts. The buzz of jumping a car over a moving train, whipping it past exploding gas stations, and then burning nitro to soar over a river just can't be denied. When you complete all the stunts for a film, you're rewarded with the trailer, which is a series of cinematics spliced with the stunts you performed-and that's just way cool. The game also supplies an awesome stunt constructor, which lets you create the craziest set of ramps, barriers, and obstacles you can conjure up, then attempt to survive it in the cars you've unlocked. Instead of that mode, though, what Stuntman badly needs is a practice mode where you could take your time and master the stunts. After all, don't real-life stuntman get to practice-or at least get a peek at a map-before the cameras roll? In the absence of those aids, your frustration will rapidly boil over as you struggle more to learn than to execute. In a delicious bit of irony, at one point a cinematic tells you that supercomputers have been used to model the precise speed you should hit a jump...but that speed is never revealed to you! If you're the sort who likes to crack a tough nut, Stuntman has a pair cast in titanium. It's definitely not for everyone, but for the right gamer who can tolerate its flaws and appreciate its rigorous challenges, it's gold. If that's not you, rent it for a quick spin and check out its cool Driver 3 trailer.

Terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. Let's start it here.

You're a stuntman. You get to follow orders from a director who demands you do some of the most stupidly rigorous tasks to complete stunts. Some of the stunts are cool, but the game gets hard at about the 4th level. The first movie you shoot is like a tutorial. I rented this game, and never beat it. The first level of the first real movie in which your basically like dukes of hazards is tremendously hard. You have to do things in split seconds, and the game is so hard that it is frustrating. The game has no good points that I can think of. On one of the first missions I didn't barrel roll and I still won it. Another time I was suppose to hit a board and spin sideways near a garbage can, I barely did it and I won.

But once you get to the dukes of hazards type movie, no. It's ridiculously stupid. There are cooling towers in random places falling on your car. Then you have to jump through a train at the start which is kinda luck. Anyways, the game could of gotten things right. For one, the game is fun when your not all stuntman. Right after you jump over a house, you get to cruise for like 30 seconds, which is fun considering the environment looks good. The game though doesn't lay out maps for you and doesn't give you any help. The director almost wants to make this thing as hard as possible because he never edits the movies(like normal directors and stunt coordinators do) and he never attempts to tell you where to go beforehand. You will be flipping left and right going up and down with no sence of direction. One second costs you the match...

The game is terrible. There are some extras. Trailers or some crap. The map editor is terrible. You can put about 5 items in and that is it. I never figured out mechanical cars(I just decided to use cheats to unlock the editor stuff) and I never found out if there were any extra maps to unlock in the campaign. But this game offers nothing except frustration and crap. Honestly, I would like to see the creators beat their own game. If they could do that it would be great, beacause not many people can.

It's a Great Action Driving Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Stunt Man is a very exciting game and once you start playing it, it's hard to stop. It's a challenging game: you need all the right timing to do the stunts. I like all of the cars, from the Mustang convertable which goes very fast (up to 116 MPH), to the Tuc-tuc (a 3-wheel cab) which goes only 45 MPH tops. One of my favorite vehicles is the MONSTER TRUCK, but it's very hard to handle!

Basically, you're a stunt man doing a series of very elaborate driving stunts in a fictional movie. The director calls out instructions like "Crash through the fence!", "Overtake the car!", "Jump over the staircase!" as you're driving. His voice is a little annoying, but you get used to it. (I think he sounds just like the main smuggler in Smuggler's Run.)

One of my favorite stunts in this game is driving a battered-up old army jeep and doing a barrel roll while a tank shell hits the vehicle. When I get hit by the tank shell, it totals the vehicle!

Another favorite stunt of mine is where you're driving a car and at the very end of the stunt, you go up and off a ramp and while you're in the air, you crash into a moving gondola. The name of the "movie" that this stunt is in is "Conspiracy". I wish this was an actual movie, 'cause it looks so cool.

I really like the replay feature, where you get to view your actual stunt (just as you did it, right or wrong) from various camera angles, as if you were watching a movie.

It's a very fun game. I encourage you to buy it!

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