Courier Crisis

by Ps1

Product Details

• ASIN: B00002SUR6
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,449 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

In Courier Crisis - GT Interactive's latest homage to slackers everywhere - you play a grunged-out bicycle messenger travelling at breakneck speeds through busy thoroughfares and crowded alleys. In the game, you will round corners at tremendous velocities, dodging oncoming traffic as you knee and elbow pedestrians into the road. You will even be afforded the opportunity to clear the entire height of a garbage truck in a single vault. A fantastic concept with endless possibility, but one that was executed so poorly here, even the most radical bunny-hop couldn't save the resultant product.

Courier Crisis seems to offer a lot from the outset, but a combination of elements makes the game a disappointment. Sure, you can hop on car hoods and bike around the game's 3D-rendered streets. Sure, you can you beat up police officers, run over helpless grandmas, and kick doggies. Sure, you can collect assets and purchase improved bikes after each mission. But your bicycle's sloth-like response to the controller will soon supplant the previous novelties with mere feelings of frustration. Compound this with boring levels and humor that tries way too hard, and this frustration is replaced with the act of pressing the "off" button on your PlayStation.

The graphics don't help the situation too much either. Blotchy, repetitive textures and jerky animation that is sorely in need of more frames characterizes each Chinatown street and Skid Row alley. Of course, this makes the exciting act of performing an aerial jump or table-top (different tricks award the cyclist with various power-ups) - or even recklessly slamming into an oncoming police car - less than exciting activities.

In the end, Courier Crisis is a game for people who are endlessly entertained by second-rate Beavis and Butthead-esque humor and wacky stunts, but not one for serious PlayStation gamers. Stay away from it at all costs. --Tim Soete
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Manufacturer Description

A racing game that pits you the bicycle messenger against your delivery deadline. In the process of thrashing through the concrete jungle you must pull off the most radical maneuvers to deliver on time. The cash you earn can be used to buy a better bike. Features over 250 kamikaze missions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BMX AND Couier Riders, September 24, 2000

By 

glacier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Courier Crisis (Video Game)

You know the deal. If you was born in New York City walking, driving or standing still you see Couier deliver riders. Going through 5th avenue streets like it's nothing execpt them. Dodging MTA buses, cars, UP trucks, regular trucks, postal trucks and yellow cabs. Plus the big double decker buses that have site seeing people on. All in a nut shell this game is for everybody who wants to sit down and see the hard job that the men/women do for the couier position. It's a fun job but hard and dangerous work. The game doesn't give the inside scoop but it gives you a taste of the job. You should check out this game. It's intense.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This game is a disgrace, August 2, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Courier Crisis (Video Game)

I bought this game this winter and I would like to say that the graphics aren't that great. It also lacks respect to many things in this world. You punch people into the road so they get hit by cars. And if dogs chase you you kick them. Also to top it off I was babysitting a 7-yr. old this summer and I said okay for him to play so he was fooling around with the buttons and he found out that you can give people the finger on that game. Now he has been acting like an idiot since. I would say not to buy this game it isn't worth the money and isn't for youngsters.