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 ...

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 ...

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 ...