Minority Report

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006ZCD8
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 19, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,979 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

You are unlikely to find much to enjoy in this game, even if you liked the movie. The elements that made the movie worthwhile--a compelling narrative wrapped up with a high-tech, futuristic bow--are glossed over or absent from the game. What's more, the gameplay is as redundant and simplistic as the graphics are uneven. Worse yet, the game does not allow you to save midlevel (some levels are long) and the instruction manual contains no information about how to play the game, forcing you to play through the training course.

You play the game as John Anderton, an officer in the elite Precrime unit responsible for apprehending would-be murderers before they can commit the deed. Given these parameters, it isn't surprising that not a lot of characters die in this game. But there's still plenty of violence. Anderton himself is quite adept at pummeling other officers, guards, robots, or anyone else who gets in his way. With a decent selection of kicks, punches, and combinations (you can purchase additional combos when you collect enough dollar signs) Anderton can beat his way through at least the beginning levels. But even with the ability to purchase additional moves, this slug fest soon becomes tiresome.

Minority Report does successfully represent parts of the movie, such as the concussion gun, the jet pack, and the spider bots. The first time you fire the concussion gun, for example, you'll be impressed with the way the space around Anderton ripples with the force of the weapon. (Unfortunately this rippling effect will also severely limit your ability to see what's going on in front of you.) Otherwise, the game levels are unimpressive. Character animation is poor--some characters have limbs that look like noodles and slot-like mouths. Minority Report is not great at re-creating the movie, and is even less successful when it breaks with it. --Bill Hummel

Pro:

• Movie elements represented with decent graphics

Cons:

• Elements original to the game have terrible graphics
• Redundant gameplay
• Can't save midlevel

Product Description

The Year Is 2054. Officer John Anderton Is Head Of An Elite Police Squad That Predicts And Apprehends Murderers Before Their Crime Can Be Committed. Play As Officer John Anderton From The Smash Hit Science-fiction Thriller minority Report. You Can Relive The Movie Experience By Combining Hand-to-hand Combat And Futuristic Weapons And Gadgets Straight Out Of The Movie. you Are Anderton A Pre-crime Officer Whos On The Run From The Police Unit That Hes Dedicated His Life To Serving. You Must Stop An Insidious Conspiracy Using All Of Your Tactical Skill And Firepower Through 15 Awesome Levels Of Science-fiction Action.experience This Nonstop Action-packed Third-person Adventure use Futuristic Weapons And Gadgets In An Attempt To Clear Your Name And Stop An Evil Conspiracy drive A Variety Of Cool Vehicles Straight Out Of The Movie: Mag-lev Cars Pre-crime Hoverships And An Mr Lexus game Specifications:1 Playermemory Card

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No fun...until you use cheats..., October 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Minority Report (Video Game)

Admittably, this game is horribly bad. There is only single player and with the lack of real weaponry or even a decent storyline, you'll probably wind up throwing the game out before you get half-way through it. But after I rented the game and got utterly fed up that I had spent $6.00 for the piece of crap, I looked up cheat codes for it and all of a sudden, the game turned out to be more fun than ever. Just pick a level with a lot of regenerating enimies, get all weapons, ammo, and life, and invite some buddies over, and for hours my friends and I were entertained with using the non-lethal weapons to blast enimies through glass and destroying the surrounding enviroment in one of the many levels. I reccomend renting this one first, but it's at least a good rental...as long as you look up codes (Try cheatplanet.com or other sites to actually get some fun out of this craptacular title).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A sad result from a great book and movie, June 3, 2003

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minority Report (Video Game)

Based on the Sci-Fi movie, and based on a story by Philip K. Dick, Minority Report lets you play a cop in the future where psychics know about murders before they happen.

First, kudos to the game for providing decent training. The game walks you through all aspects of gameplay, so you are familiar with the basics before entering actual missions.

The game is based on the movie, and the story, so it helps to read and see both before you play the game. In essence, society has found 3 "pre-cogs" who are able to see murders before they happen. Your character, Chief Anderton (played by Tom Cruise in the movie) is the leader of the cops who go out to snag murderers before they do the deed. Of course, in a twist of fate, Chief Anderton himself is accused of potentially murdering someone, and he sets about to prove he's innocent.

First, the graphics. This game is out on all platforms so we got the XBox version which usually has the crispest graphics of the consoles. We were pretty disappointed. Anderton looks more like a maniacal killer than a cop, definitely not based on Tom Cruise. Lighting and textures are very flat. There aren't many details, and often those suffer clipping and jaggy problems.

Yes, a few effects are neat. The concussion rifle, the cut scenes. But it doesn't make up for the headaches you get from the general atmosphere you have to wander through.

Gameplay starts reasonably with good training missions. But once you get playing, it's just a button-mashing slugfest. You're trying to bludgeon your enemies into submission, gathering 'secrets' and money along the way. Money buys you new moves and other weapons.

Even so, some of the missions become quite long and tedious, with no in-level save. If you die, you have to replay from the beginning of the level, bashing your way through everyone from the start.

Being a huge fan of Philip K. Dick, I really wanted this game to succeed. I try to promote his books and movies as much as I can. But while the game has some 'background eye candy' based on the movie, it's mash-and-bash atmosphere is just tedious. Hopefully they'll do a better job on the next game conversion they do!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars stereotypical, December 23, 2002

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Michael Bowen "cobb_at_mdcbowen_dot_org" (Redondo Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minority Report (Video Game)

this is the kind of mindless violent idiocy that people who have never played videogames think all videogames are like.

how crappy is this game? let me count the ways. it is crappy in the way it's a third person shooter and weapons automatically lock on. it has crappy camera positioning. the animation is jerky, and looks like something for nintendo 64, not xbox. anderton's face is a mask of brutality.

the premise is cool, the way you can throw someone through a plate glass window is cool (but the execution is nowhere near as nice as spiderman), and the heat-wave effects in the stun weapon is cool. all that adds up to is about 1 hour of basic training and gameplay and then utter disgust.