Stop that Car! (World's Scariest Police Chases (PS))

Member Name: sshaikh

Product:	World's Scariest Police Chases (PS)
Date:	22/08/01 (531 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Base on television series, Action, Great replays

Disadvantages: long loading time, slow downs during the game

World’s scariest police chase!!

When I bought this game I was expecting a complete action packed driving thriller of a game. But what I got was a complete reconstruction of some of the chase scenes from the Television program. Don’t take me wrongly but this was a brilliant idea from Fox Interactive and taking it from their most popular T.V series was a great idea.

AIM
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Now to explain the aim of the game is not very hard, all you have to do is stop the bad guys from getting away from the police. Well it sounds simple doesn’t it but there more elements added to the game.

If you can remember the television series of this game then you will be able to remember the type of challenges that face you. That right from drunken driver to high-speed stolen car pursuits you’ve got them all in this game.

Also if you can’t stop that car and you know there are innocent people around, you’re going to have to control the situation in anyway. This means that you might have to shoot the car to bring it to a complete stop.

They’re great narrating from Gravely voice over the up coming mission as well as at the end of each mission as well. This defiantly adds a great feel to the game through your courses.

CONTROL
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The controls are not very hard to get into if you’ve played with Driver or Driver 2 then you will find the controls very easy to uses. But if this is the first time that you’ve playing one of these type of games then you will need to practice your driving skills.

Triangle – This allow you to turn your siren on and off during the game.
Circle – Provides you with full skidding skills using as the handbrake.
Square – Can be used for two things and that is braking to bring your car to a complete stop and Reverse.
Cross - Button is only used for accelerating.
L1 – Weapon next
R
1 – Shooting your gum at your opponent.
L2 – Look left.
R2 – Look right.

If you press L2 + R2 together you will be able to look behind in chase you over take your opponent.

The controls are simple to learn but will take practice to master all the moves available to you.

GAME MODES
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There are quite a few game modes available to you

Free Patrol – This mode allows you to drive around straight away in the cities that are unlocked, if you’ve just started the game you will only have access to one area. Once you’ve started you then need to select the time and weather conditions and your vehicle. Once you’ve done all of this then you’re ready to drive and stop the bad guys!

Pursuit Mode – Is the complete game where you start from the Police academy to real live mission of stopping the bad guys. Each time you complete your mission you are rated on how well you did and what tasks you completed and failed. This is really good to have to see how well you have done on each mission or just to see how bad you’ve done and where to improve.
There are around 20 missions to be completed and over 13 different vehicles to actually go through. (Patrol cruisers, under-cover cars and even a tank) Also you will go through a list of weaponries that are very useful in some of the missions.

Single Mission – This mode allows you to play single mission from your main game that you’ve have played. You can only access the mission that you have completed from Pursuit mode. So there no need to go through any pain stating repeats of the full game.

GAME OPTION
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There are quite a few option available to make the game harder to play bur does not have that much of an impact of the overall performance.

City map- your able to switch the city map off on your screen that makes it harder to
look at what coming ahead
Vehicle Indicator – which shows you the suspect you are chasing so that you don’t get confused with the other drivers.
Route Indicator – Tell you about the suspect route that he has taken in case you fall behind.

Even with these option available to you does not make the game any better or worse but what it does do is make it a little bit harder.

MULIPLAYER
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The game does offer a unique two-player mode, but doesn't let you use it enough. In either the single mission or free patrol modes you can choose to let one player control the movement of the vehicle and the other activate the siren and aim and shoot the weapons.

It is great fun to have but does lack option have a chase mode available and we hope that they will be able to improve on the next one if they ever made it.

GRAPHICS
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Now the graphics are not that bad at all but there are a few annoying screen-loading dumps and slow down during the actual chases. I really do think that these graphics do not look as good as driver 2 and does not have a smooth feel throughout the game.

You do have the option to set your display on your screen so if you have a widescreen television and you want to centre your image then you can.

AUDIO
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The actual audio does not sound very realistic especially the car noises and crunching of the car from a high jump. The Narrating in the game can start to be a little annoying after awhile and you start to hate the repeats of the vocal.

The only good thing about the audio is that you have the option to control all the sounds in the game to meet your perfect hearing sense.

OVERALL
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This game did remind me of a very old game that I had on my Atari ST and that was called Chase HQ. Just like this game there were shootings out of the car and getting loads of weapon
s to kill the bad guys.

There wasn’t much that appealed to me on this game that hasn’t already been release but I did like the action reply of the event taken during your mission. I think that I look more forward to the end of the game to watch my replay.

If you complete the game you will start to unlock hidden secrets that will be added to your bonus item in the menu options. You can receive cars and other help utilities to make you game play more fun.

Just to finish off to say that this game not bad but Fox interactive will need to improve on this version to make a better hit.

Only 8/10

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