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a lot of the same

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rented this game about a month ago. it was easy to get into and fun to play. but as i progressed through the game, the missions got just plain boring because youre just delivering pakages back and forth. needless to say theres not a lot of replay value here. And no real weapons doesnt help its case. I beat the game in about 5 days, and found that you can play through again on a harder difficulty, but thre missions are still the same and(yawn) boring. what brings this game alive is the multiplayer. it is fun and its just funny, expecially if youre playing bombtag. plainly put-fun to play not to buy. 3 outta 5

The mother of all Smugglers Run games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This exclusive GameCube game is the brand-new third installment in the Smugglers Run franchise. It offers the best multiplayer, featuring 4-player action, brand-new modes, new countermeasures, areas, and vehicles. The all-new area is Eastern Europe, which was designed with multiplayer in mind. It features castles, inns, farms, an abandoned industrial complex, and lush vegetation, set during the fall season. There's a new vehicle, the hoversled, which is the fastest but also weakest of the bunch. The brand-new countermeasures are the Cloaking Device, Vertical Boost, Acid Drop, and Repel Sphere in addition to the already existing Speed Boost, Smoke Screen, Oil Slick and Bomb. The extensive multiplayer modes include Loot Grab, Crooks and Smugglers, Domination, Fox and Hounds, and team Bomb Tag. The graphics are also nicely polished over the previous PS2 Smugglers Run games. Better specular lighting and reflections, higher-polygon models, smoother frame rates, better draw-distances, etc. This brand-new Smugglers Run game is certainly the best and most refined version yet!

your a smuggler

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: April 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Its like your in GTA3 with more racing missions and more laundering goods to other places for money from your little mob friends. Its like you try to smuggle sorts of things out like drugs and prostitutes out of the country but before you do that you must still face the U.S. border patrol and sometimes sneakiness is your best key to unlocking the secrets that this game has to hold.

Good but gets boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game the day it came out. I went home and starting playing it and it was fun for the first week. But then as somebody mentioned in another review just got plain boring becuase thats all you do is deliever packages. I think they should've made this game better by making you do missions where you have to get out of your car and do strategic missions instead of speed but that isn't the way they made it. On the other hand the graphics are great and look like the gamecube was made to look like. The cars are pretty good but where in the h*ll will you find a truck with a faster speed than a race car this makes the game kind of not realistic. It is still a good game and worth buying. To sum it up good game at first but gets boring and a little bit unrealistic.

Smuggler's fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At its core, the game is bout after bout of vehicular capture-the-flag, but adds a flare of racing and combat in for good measure, also. Sounds exciting? Well, being played alone, it isn't. And yet... the developers were quite obsessed with the mission mode and left little to be opened up in the 4-player options. That's a shame, too, because, though the multiplayer mode feels somewhat "tacked on," it is here where Smuggler's Run really shines. Despite some rendering and control issues, if you have friends -- even just one -- and a hankering to drive recklessly, this game can be a lot of fun.

The best in the west

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

in this game you get millions of weapons(not literaly) and its kinda like grand theft auto, three of course. You just kinda race arouns and smuggle things like drugs, people, and prostitutes

what a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool. There are about thirty missions in the main mission mode. The whole point of the game is to deliver secret things to destination with cops chasing you and trying to stop you from your delivery or sin some cases missions to do other things like knocking towers down to take communication out. at the same time you can unlock about 10 vechiles in mission mode each with diffrent weapons to use on your enemies. The vehicles have there advantages and disadvantages like the vechile's speed, acceleration, climbing abilities handling and the vehicles weight. the vehicles and in some cases allied vehicles you choose is crucial to the spacific mission. The multiplayer missions are simialar to the gameplay but more of team mode in many circumstances where you pick your team and the vehicles in your team. The key to easier success is to pick the right vehicles for the right terrain. The difference in this mode is you can steal stuff from the other team and use it to your advantage for your ammount of packages delivered. There is also a racing mode where you pick a leval and your car and racing apponents. It is fun if you like racing. I have not played all of the modes but so far the game worth it if you like off the road driving games kind of like the vigilante games with mission involving smuggling things and objectives in certain amounts of time with cops on your "rear" constantly trying to stop and arrest you. Beware they can kill you or stall your engine if you arent good at drivng skills!
If you like smuggling and delivering goods this is your kinda game!
graphics-8.5 out of 10
good realistic offroad enviromententgraphics

gameplay-9 out of 10
speeks for itself!

sound-10 out of 10
realistic car sounds and crashing
great background music

value-10 out of 10
great value of a game!

Glad I rented this first

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I considered ordering this game because of some of the initial "fun" reviews that came out. I'm glad I rented it first! Although the concept of the game is good, the actual gameplay isn't all that great. It gets boring pretty quickly. I found myself really desiring some "real" weapons during multi-player mode. I then started to think that maybe I should start employing strategy... only to find out there isn't much to employ.

Summary:
Graphics are OK, gameplay is OK, Fun level is short-lived.
Rent it once or twice for a change of pace, but spend your real money on something else.

Good Game, But Small

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to the new world of high profit smuggling. Smuggler's Run is a fun game, but one problem: it's too small. Sure there's 175 missions, but the game may be a total of six hours long (at least it was around that much time when I beat it). But for the missions, they are certainly fun. Incredible graphics and five different levels are all you find in this great action game. Good story plot, but the only reason I gave it four stars is because it's too small. And too easy.

The Antidote for Ever-Increasing Paternalistic Orwellian Gov

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... Smuggler's Run 2 is simply another (albeit somewhat anarchist) form of American expressionism wrought by American's need to free themselves from the bondage of overprotective and intrusive government--a cry for freedom and the American Spirit of adventure. It is the panacea for our Orwellian paternalistic era. Buy it and live free! At least virtually . . .

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