Jet Set Radio (DC)

Produced by Sega development team Smilebit, Jet Set Radio is the unique product of a team fed up with the archetypical anime styling of Japanese video games. As such, they set out to produce something both visually and stylistically unusual. And they succeeded. The streets of Tokyo-to are inhabited by skaters known as ‘Rudies’, who spray their personal graffiti (known as ‘Tags’) on suitable locations. Tokyo-to is inhabited by four groups of Rudies –the GG’s of Shibuya-cho (that’s you), the Noise-Tanks of Benten-cho, Poison-jam of Kagane-cho, and the Love-shockers of, err, seemingly nowhere. As the game starts the Police ...  Read the complete review

The first game I got for the Dreamcast was Jet Set Radio, is a visually stunning title that still stands up extremely well today, and is notable for making the use of cel-shaded graphics popular in games - thus, later iterations of the Zelda and Prince of Persia franchises owe a lot to this superb game. The game pits you as a skater, who goes around a Japanese district, spray-painting and performing various other tasks, whilst trying to outrun the police, who get tougher and tougher the longer they're on you (ultimately throwing gas grenades at you!). You form a skate gang early on, and also have enemy gangs who will chase you if they see you, but if you can ...  Read the complete review

Jet Set Radio is one of the coolest games that you can purchase with your Dreamcast. The idea of the game is simple; you must blade around the cities painting the town red with your own personalised graffiti. This may sound like a weird game that is because it is! The game is not actually like a normal game, the graphics are like manga comics and they have a great deal of detail to the, You are in a cartoon world and your job is to spray paint your graffiti in the special areas so that you can cover up other rival gangs. The game is based in a place they call ?Tokyo-To? in which there are 3 areas. You have to paint all the arrows in a city in order to clear ...  Read the complete review

Jet Set Radio was released in November 2000 for the Dreamcast, and came very highly recommended by everyone in the games industry. The basic premise of the game is that you, the player, are a teenager living in the city of Tokyo-to, who is 'naffed off' with the rules and regulations forced upon you. You decide to rebel, and as a member of the GG's gang, your gang has its own unique graffiti 'tag,' and it is your aim to spray this in as many places as possible to mark your territory, or 'turf.' The other two gangs in the game live in different districts of the city and you want to spray in their turf, which of course they do not ...  Read the complete review

If any proof were needed that it is Sega who deserve the title of 'best developer/publisher in the world' (in the current climate at least - I'm sure it will change once GameCube is released and Nintendo and Rare start releasing games again), then 'Jet Set Radio' provides it. It is one of the most original, graphically beautiful, aurally pleasing and, most importantly, playable games I've had the pleasure of experiencing in the last few years. 'Jet Set Radio' is probably best described as a 3D platformer but, like all the greatest games, doesn't really fall into a set genre. Most of the levels see you take control of your ...  Read the complete review