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Frustrating Fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The concept is great. You perform stunts that are unbelievably fun (once you complete them). That's the major drawback---completion. Stunts are very difficult, with little margin for errors. Once you DO complete one, you feel a swell a pride like no other driving game you've ever played before. Did I complete the game? No. I reached a stunt that I spent days trying to complete, and I still haven't done it. And you can't progress without completing the stunts assigned to you. (Major bummer.)But I love watching the saved stunts I completed. I watch them repeatedly, with pride.

This game is fun for kids and/or adults!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My husband and son (OK - me too) LOVE this game. It has some challenges that make it interesting and wanting to come back for more. Most games we buy seem to be so simple that the fun doesn't last for long. This game not only takes you to a new driving level for your skills, but incorpaorates making a movie also! It may not be the best game for very young kids that don't have much experience with PS2 yet and using the controls, but for the avid player it is an exciting adventure that doesn't make you feel like after a few times of playing your money has been wasted. This game is definitely worth the money!

So freckin terrible!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had bought this weak crap in 7/16/03. If you think it was cool on the comerical, well your wrong! This game is so frustrating and it's not that fun. When you on the "stunt constructor" mode and you go up the ramp, it is fonny! When you get close to beat the hole game is was hard and gay. I could even beat the very last mission! Don't even buy this game because it is not good as you thought it was on t.v.

THIS GAME IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT buy this game. It is a waste of money and is extremely difficult. It is also not very fun at all.

not worth it....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly difficult. It has some of the longest loading times too. Unless you have the unlock everything code "BindI", do yourself a favor and skip this one.

ok but frustrating at times

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game puts you on the sets of several fictitious, stunt-heavy movies, including the 007-inspired Live for Two Tomorrows and the Guy Ritchie-inspired Toothless in Wapping. You're to execute detailed driving stunts by following the director's instructions over a radio and several onscreen visual cues. The stunts are constructed mostly out of driving around, through, and over obstacles, but there are more than a few inventive sequences that you have to time just right. If you do it wrong, or mess up the timing of the shot, you have to retake the scene.

The game can be quite a strain on one's patience, however. There's no initial "walk-through," as there would be for a real production, so it takes several passes to even get a grasp of what you're doing. Plus there's a pause for reloading between each scene that can be grating. Still, players receive tremendous satisfaction from mastering a scene.

Gamers may be disappointed in the quality of Stuntman's graphics--it seems only a half-step above Driver 2--but they'll love the handling of these vehicles and the interactivity of the environments. Nearly everything in the game can be moved or broken. The really versatile Stunt Constructor tool lets you play with all kinds of fun toys or tricks, such as jumps, loops, and even cannons. Lay them out in an arena and then drive the course. You have to unlock all but the most basic toys and vehicles by completing scenes, but it's a great way to blow off steam.

awsome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't think the game deserves an average customer review rating of 3 so people will think it's mediocor. This is up there with the best like Grand theft auto vice city, wwe Smack Down! here comes the pain OR THE GREAT PLATFORM GAMES...

The problem with this game are the graphics(aren't the best). There's the most trile and eror ever in a video game and I like that because every time I failed I couldn't wait to replay the car stunts after the anoying loading times, nobody wants to complete a game in a day. My friend who is okay at video games took 2 - 3 hours to complete a stunt(by failing alot)in the second movie(the one where you drive your car go over a roof through a chimney then through a middle of a train).

People are putting it down because it's hard(this world is not made of hardcore gamers). A game that's easy(Ninja Gaidan on xbox)is being called hard and that's is wrong(except for final difficulty and people still complain over normal and hard).

Hard as sin, choppy gameplay, but somehow very rewarding

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the lucky few... ok a bunch of people who "pre-ordered" this from best buy, I got the shirt. I got it, and read reviews about it, and the reviews were mixed; but since i loved the driver series, except for its insane difficulty. I wanted to give this game a go, at first i liked it.... this is how the game basically went for me I would play and be like this is sweet, coolness replays make me laugh when i screwed up, i replayed and replayed. and along the way i would drop numerous "F bombs," and "MF's" and an insane amount of "thats F*ing bs." I actually quite liked it, i just needed to take breaks between play so i would get an anurism in my brain. The unique style of gameplay, although super frustrating, had endings of sequences that were extremely satisfactory. Watching the tralers of the movies with your stunts in the trailer was an incredible idea, I kept saying to my mom, and friends, "check this out, thats me! i did that! :D :D" the game filled me with glee everytime i beat something insanely hard.

3 things about the game made me want to stop playing, many times, the super annoying director guys voice; and the horrible Frames Per Second, and gittery car physics. I swear the FPS in the game would never get above 50, at most; and when stuff was flying all over the screen forget about it, it was like watching a slow-motion replay. the guys voice was so annoying, ugh.. take 1, take 2, take 3. ROLLING, i wish he would just be quiet if he knew what was good for him. Sometimes i would hit his cameras on purpose. hah.

Car physics gets its own new paragraph, cause they were simply put; MOON GRAVITY PHYSICS. Truly, the cars would hit a curb and bounce up in the air, or on the final level, smash curb and flip over; in a lamborghini yeah... right. I kept telling myself the gravity was like that so you could get air-born for the stunts. But a little bit of tweaking, would have made this game so much more playable and not throw controller down frustrating.

I end this with the fact that i beat the game on Friday, 2 nights ago, well... saturday morning. I really enjoyed the game, the replays were great, and i actually felt like i accomplished something great when i was done. not too mention that i can play all the missions again, for a few kicks. and forcing my sister to beat it makes her better at other driving games.

Patience is a virtue

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I give Stuntman 4 stars because it is a good game. The only problem is that it is rediculously hard. You need alot of patience with this game. Ive had this game for a long time and still havent finished it. Ive lost interest in playing it because the last level is just too hard, and i dont have any more patience for this game. Another con is the long loading. It has to load every time, whether it is starting the scene over or going from one cut scene to the other. They take so long. But once you get past the difficulty and loading time, the game is pretty good. The graphics arent the best but are very good, and the controls are pretty responsive. The movie titles are kinda funny too.

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patience WILL pay off!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought stuntman about a week after its release. I started it up and was immeadiately hooked on the adrenaline pumping scenes. With that said, this game is HARD! I've had it since the release and i am still two levels from completing it because i get so mad at it i can't play it for a month or so! The idea of the game is great, your a hollywood stunt driver, and you work on several fictious films. Although these films are not real, they have very obvious ties to films that are real (such as Indiana Jones and James Bond flicks.) Once you have finished the required stunts, you view a movie trailer, with your stunts spliced in, which is a great idea.

As for the controls, they are something to get used to. Your average racing game will have X button to accelerate, Square button to brake and reverse, and the R1 button for handbrake. On stuntman this all the same, but the handbrake is moved to either the O, or Triangle button. Why this is neccasary, i have not the slightest idea, since the R1 button does nothing anyway. i also found it a bit bothersome that you were forced to work with the controls they gave you, there wasn't a certain number of predecided settings, let alone a custom configuration.

As for the driving mechanics of the game, they also take some getting used to. Every car will handle a bit differently and since you are in and out of new cars throughout the entire game, it does take awhile to familiarize yourself with the controls. in general the cars glide a bit more often than in most games, which can be both a good and a bad thing. It can be good when trying to make quick U turns, and bad when trying to weave in and out of traffic, and both are equally used throughout the game. This is only a small problem, because after about a 1/2 hour of actually driving, you get the light, or sometimes rough touch that the vehicles require.

Another very nice aspect of the game is the stunt builder. Through the stunt builder you can actually set up your own show in a big arena full of fans, complete with roll bars jumps and loops, and then wreak havoc on it, and ultimately destroy your vehicle. Through the career mode, you gain more and more complex toys to insert into your vitual destruction derby, from stacked barrels, to a giant loop.

In conclusion, you must understand that this game is EXTREMELY difficult. You will find yourself restarting the scenes of the first movies anywhere from 75, to even 200 times before you have 100% completion. Once you reach the final movie, you may find yourself restarting 100 to 250 times, depending on how good a driver you are. The game wil definately test your patience, but once you finish a movie and see that commercial, there really is no better feeling because you know that you finally did it!

P.S.
Many people complain about the long load time everytime you have to restart a scene. To remedy this problem, simply open the disc tray once you power on PS2, and switch your system's speed, load times will be much faster!

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