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It will only hurt for a little while.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am of course referring to the PS2 version, but I feel it is my duty to warn any one that has not already played this game to beware. It was disguised as the "most controversial game ever" by some gaming magazines. Yeah right.....the only contoversy I saw was, "what in the heck happened to my hard earned money?"

In all fairness this game was fun for about an hour. Seeing the same chartacters over and over and over was more than I could take. Fortunately, I was able to take it back to my local video game shop confessing I had made a horrible mistake buying it.

Rockstar tried to pull a fast one by shipping this one soon after GTA3. Don't let anyone fool you...you could skip this game and never miss it.

Thought it looked interesting - IT AIN'T!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Avoid this one...I wondered about this game because I saw it cheap in a lot of shops. It looks like it could be interesting & fun. It's just a bunch of chaos. Pointless, random chaos all around you is not fun. Trust me. Whatever the "mission" was at the time, the fact all these mindless "AI" (I use the term "AI" loosly here) are running wild in seemingly infinite numbers ruins the point of gaming. I got rid of it & the folks at the store I took it back to were like "I feel you".

Only fun at first

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, when you first get this game it seems pretty fun because you haven't played very many missions, but after about 5 missions you realize that every mission is the same. The Chaos mode is pretty fun except that mode is so easy to beat. You can beat the four levels in 3 hours. The revoution mode takes a long time to beat, but every mission is the same and it gets really boring.

not as good as GTA 3 , but it fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is cool that first , i have this game on ps2 and i have a xbox . in this game you can go and beat someone to death it fun and cool at first . the mission ... you may have to do the mission over and over and over again this will happen lot. the soundtrack ... . you play in a mall , city hall and more . the people who will enjoy this the most are people who aren't allowed to go in to a store to buy it.

Not a bad way to spend 20 bucks.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying the whole over the top violence and gore thing is just a marketing technique to generate more attention and controversy toward State of Emergency. It's like one long insane Ichy and Scratchy cartoon. The blood and gore is also optional so a wider audience can play. Basicaly you just run around and create a tremendous amount of havoc. While it can get boring it is actualy pretty entertaining and addictive. I reccomend you stay clear of Revolution mode and dive right into the Chaos mode. Revolution mode is a bunch of boring missions that take place in the riots, while chaos is more of an arcade style beat em up that you take place in. All in all you can't go too wrong buying this game. It is only 20 bucks and if nothing more it will at least entertain you for a couple of days. I suggest you rent it first and see how interested you still are when you have to return it, then you can properly determine whether or not it's worth a purchase.

Fun in short, violent plays. Madness otherwise.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THE SHORT: Kill thousands of unarmed civilians (or just the boring "Corporation" to the beat of your own tunes. Fun in short plays, madness with lengthy exposure.

THE LONG: This is about as arcade as stuff gets. Pick one of several cliched but fun characters, go to one of several lively locations, grabe one of a multitude of weapons, and kill. And kill. And kill. You just run around and shoot or swing, and, uh, "try" not to hit any innocents (It's funny that you are penalized for killing them only some of the time, and I swear that the announcer sounds disappointed when he tells you that the penalty phase is beginning).

The game was huge news when it came out in late, if I recall, 2001. It was at first thought to be as good as Grand Theft Auto was, that is until people played it. In fact it's an extremely limited game, consisting of killing, blowing stuff up, or taking on the storyline which consists of those things as well as fetch and escort missions. The latter become tiresome after a while and are frustrating in that failure means repetition until success. So you'll probably spend most of your time playing the mindless "Chaos" or free mode. It all consists of basically trying to complete small objectives within each of the few levels, and there are lots of powerups and weapons to grab.

There are better action games of this nature (Smash TV for example) and better violent games (Manhunt). But if you just want to waste an hour or two seeing how much blood you can spill and how high a score you can rack up, this is a good choice. I don't think the game is really much more than a 2, but I give this version a 3 because of the outstanding ability to listen to your own tunes thanks to the Xbox's hard drive. On the PS2, killing was fun and all, but there's nothing quite like doing it to the strains of "Whiskey in The Jar" by Metallica, "Walk a Crooked Mile" by Motorhead, "Crush 'Em" by Megadeth, or pretty much anything by They Might Be Giants (then again, it's always a good time when they're playing).

Good old mindless shooting and killing, as long as you (A) don't keep at it for too long at a time and (B) most importantly, are a smart enough individual to know that it's a game and something NOT to try at home. Or anywhere else.

this game is preety cool on mutiplayer mode

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

hey whats up its me charlie v1 the best reveiwer ever! well this game has some to offer on mutiplayer unlike ps2 this has mutiplayer action with about 10 weapons sorry i cant write long reveiws anymore my net sux and i g2g now im at school damit! this sux well this game is awesome for 20 bucks get it V1 naaaa word life

You get what you pay for.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hope my title is off, really. They are adding multiplayer, which may be the closest anyone gets to GTA multi for a long while--thanks PS2, you bixatch. There was talk of the missions being redone so as to not be so monotonous, as well. I'm also curious to see how this one ports to XBOX. The key word there is 'port', as in 'hardly ever any good.' For the price of a CD, I may try it again, though I strongly urge you to wait for the gamespot.com or ign.com review before you pick this up. Better to be safe...(ends with an adage and an elipsis, but why?)

fun for the whole fmaily.. well maybe not

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have the ps2 version and had a blast. The story mode is so-so, go from mision to mission and your having fun shooting maiming and destroying.

The real fun though is rampage mode. In ramapge mode your given a amount of time and you go on a rampage. You exted time and get points by killing and destroying things. Killing in mellee combat gets you more time and points than a ranged weapon will. This is one of the best ways to blow off some time, I see it sort of like a fighting game in this repsect. It's something you can put in for 10 minutes here and there while your waiting for to leave, or before a show, or for someone to get ready so you can go.

When it comes down to it what better way is there to spend time than to grab a mini-gun and blow someone into bloody chunks pick up their arm and beat their friends to death with it.(chest cavities and heads are fun too) This is a seriously over the top violent/gore game parents be warned.

Great Buy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rockstar really put some effort into making this game not "be bad". I can see how the PS2 version was lackluster, especially at a ... price tag. not delivering on the promises made, but those issues have been corrected in the XBOX version. The environments are large and interactive, with a large selection of weapons, and fairly intuitive game mechanics. With the addition of multiplayer, both coop and deathmatch, and at the super low debut price, it suddenly becomes a steal of a game.

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