Auto Destruct

by PS1

Product Features

• 1 Player
• Rated "T" (13+)
• Playstation One

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00002SULS
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,609 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

Electronic Arts' Auto Destruct is one of several games currently vying for the automotive combat crown currently held by Sony's Twisted Metal 2: World Tour. While Activision's Vigilante 8, Interplay's Crime Killer, and Sony's own Twisted Metal 3 are promising hopefuls, Auto Destruct doesn't even threaten to come close.

The storyline borrows as much from Marvel Comics' The Punisher as it does from the old David Hasselhoff TV series, Knight Rider. The antics of an "extreme terror cult" have caused the death of your entire family, and the cultists haven't stopped there. They've moved along, wreaking even more havoc in a future San Francisco (ostensibly shaken nearly flat by quakes between now and then). A mysterious organization called Temple has given you a sports car outfitted with weapons to stop them.

As Booth, the driver, you follow the instructions given to you via radio from your Temple operative. Your perspective is from behind the wheel, behind the car, or far above and behind the car, whichever you prefer. A typical mission includes picking up an informant and dropping him off at a safe location, tracking down and destroying enemy tanks and helicopters, escorting a VIP, or a mixture of them all. You can repair damage to your car and refill on gas at special stations in each of the three cities within the game and stock up on different weapons (machine guns, missiles, and mines for example), which are dropped off by friendly helicopters.

What follows is a very anal retentive action-adventure, meaning that instead of driving around shooting things and generally having a ball, you're stuck carrying out tedious objectives that must be met to the letter or else the whole thing's called off. While this is nothing new to mission-based games, it's this sort of "go here, do this, get that, OK, you screwed that up, start over" quality that helped drag down Psygnosis' somewhat similar flying/shooting title G Police, and does so again here.

What Auto Destruct lacks in gameplay, it almost begins to make up for visually. The graphics look very similar to the Die Hard With A Vengeance portion of Probe's classic Die Hard Trilogy. The colors are bright and the buildings have a slightly better sense of depth than in titles such as Twisted Metal 2: World Tour and Die Hard Trilogy. These rather dated examples and lots of repeat in the building fronts make the graphics less impressive, but overall the game looks decent. The first-person view is good looking and fast moving, and the New York cityscape has a great design and color scheme, but the former isn't really playable within and the latter is late enough in the game that most players will give up before getting to it.

There are 25 missions of play in all. It's an impressive number, but much less so when one considers just how repetitive and dull the gameplay is. Auto Destruct could've been a modernized city-based version of Midway's Spy Hunter, but it ended up as a G Police that got grounded. --Joe Fielder
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Product Description

Very fun drive/shooter game!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST-BUY! THIS GAME ROCKS!, April 27, 2002

By 

Dr. Kill (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Destruct (Video Game)

If you like games like Driver and The Itallian Job, this is a game for you! It's like a cross between Driver and Spy Hunter(PS2), it's fun as hell! When you hit a civilian, they'll just die(no blood), but when you put in a code, they'll splatter blood all over! This game is a little old(it came out in 1997), but it's still fun. It's even better when you put it in a PS2!
So get off your computer, get in your car and get this game!!!

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It depends on what you like in a game..., October 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Auto Destruct (Video Game)

I'd call this a fair game.If you like wreaking havoc,this is a
great game. Wreck cars by blowing them away with missles,pushing
them into lakes,or just plain wrecking them.Murder people by
shooting them or running them down.If you just want to play the
game,this is also a good game.Blow enemies to smithereens, pick
up vips, and follow the police chopper to complete levels.
This is kind of a boring game because it seems empty.It could
use more finesse. If the towns had more tourists,traffic,and
other things common in cities,like in Driver 2 ( a game I reco-
mmend) this game would be improved. Also,the missions are a little difficult.
What I really recommend:Rent it first.

5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves a sequel!!, October 28, 2011

By 

Fidel Amaya (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Auto Destruct (Video Game)

I remember back when i was 8, my dad bought me the PS1 with Auto Destruct. He actually was looking for Twisted Metal but couldn't find it. When i first Opened this game. i was amazed. It looked awesome. For the time graphics were great! I remember playing for hours never getting bored. I could only get to New York but always had fun. A few month's ago i decided to buy it off of Ebay for about 10 bucks and boy was it fun. Finally beat the game and i really wich EA had done a sequel to this. SPOILER ALERT: After beating the main boss. His Helicopter blows and you can see a submarine escaping the scene. Thats how the game ends. I really wish they had continued work with it. They should even make Auto Destruct 2 for PS3. Deserves it 100%. If you like Twisted Metal games. You'll surelly love this one. One of the Best PS1 games ever IMO!