The best 15 Pound You Will Spend (Jet Set Radio (DC))

Member Name: mr_nice_man

Product:	Jet Set Radio (DC)
Date:	18/02/02 (271 review reads)
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Advantages: good graphics, v.good music, great

Disadvantages: not long, repetetive

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 that. They don?t make it easy at all. The police and all other weird kinds of enemies always attack you. They persist you throughout the level so you have to be fast in order to beat the clock.

The graphics of this game as I have said are completely amazing. You are in a comic that is completely free for you to control. You can blade pretty much anywhere and you can go where you want to and do what you like. The animations of the characters and the level are amazing. If you love comics you will love this. It feels very smooth when you are playing the game and feels good to watch. Some of the pedestrians look a bit weird as some times you look about twice as big as them, but you will not likely discover this unless you are looking for faults.

The story basically revolves around you spraying your graffiti over some other gang?s graffiti. Once you have taken over their turf they must then retreat and you win. So you have to go round and ?tag? all the arrows in order to beat the stage. Once you have done this you have to take on the gang in a chase where the only way to defeat them is spaying your logo onto them. Later you go back in time and you go to another city, which looks like New York. This is very cool and is a nice extra, which has been added to the American and European Version.


As you progress in the game you try and gather members to join the GG?s and you must show off your tricks to them in order for them to join you. This breaks the game up a bit and is a nice extra added to the game, which fits in very well. Once members have joined you, you can select them to play with. Each character has different stats so some may be suited for different levels to others. When you do have to get new members you will have to do certain things. The main things you have to do is either copy a certain move they do, or you have to have a race along a level in which the first person to tag the spray wins. The races are a lot harder than the tricks but these may get frustrating and take up lots of time if you keep failing.

The sound is the best part of this game by far; the music in the game is one of the best and most modern soundtracks in games today. Instead of adopting a Tony Hawk?s style music of Punk, Hip-Hop and Rock, JSR uses more dance songs, a few rock songs and some nice Rap songs. The general music goes very well with the game and is mixed all into one song so it is almost endless. Different music is picked for different stages and this is a good thing because the songs picked go very well with the levels. One of the bad things however is that you cannot pick the songs you want to here so you cant edit the play lists of your songs. The sound suit?s the game very well and gives a very good feel to the game. Some of the songs I will list

. Dragula - Rob Zombie
. Just Got Wicked - Cold
. Improvise - Jurassic 5
. Bout To The City - Reps
. Miller Ball Breakers - Daevid Soul

This is just a list of the best ones, there are about another 15 songs and Hideki Naganuma composes quite a few of them. He has gained lots of respect for his songs in JSR and he is expected to be in JSRF on the X-Box. The soundtrack was one of the best parts of this game and you will love it.

The more you play this ga
me the more you will like it. Most DC fans already own a copy of this game already. If you are new to the DC you can buy the console and the game for around £80. This is a barging as this game is one of the best on the DC and as most Sega games they fail to disappoint me. If you like Tony Hawks you will love this game 10 times more as it has loads of class and play great. When being sold on it?s own for £15 it is a barging when compared to most ps2 games. Buy it now and you will not be sorry.

The games length however is not that long and there is not much more to do once you have completed it. If you are looking for a game with replay value this is not it but it does last a couple of days and the end result is a success.

The sequel to this game is coming out on the X-Box quite soon so you might want to play this game before you buy that one. Go to http://www.gamespot.com and check out some of the movies of the game to see what you think for yourself.

This game is the perfect entertainment game as it is great in all aspects, which some games fail to achieve. If you are not a fan of skating, graffiti, or manga stay away from this game.

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