RoadKill

by Midway

Product Features

• Select from 40 unique post-apocalyptic style vehicles
• Destroy your opponents throughout three enormous living and destructible cities
• Engage in more than 30 core missions and numerous side missions as you roam the streets and instigate anarchy
• Run over, impale, shoot and splatter both innocent and armed pedestrians in multiple ways, inciting riots
• Gain the necessary reputation to work your way up from a vagrant to an overlord and develop a gang following that will provide additional protection

Product Details

• ASIN: B00008XL01
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,587 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #23 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Out-drive, outgun and outthink your competition to survive in this post-apocalyptic city! / For PS2 / Rated M: Mature Engage in the ultimate test of vehicular combat - 2-4 player multiplayer Deathmatch Modes Face-off against seven rival gangs, killing the members of some while gaining the respect of others Collect salvaged parts from destroyed vehicles to unlock hidden items such as nitrous thrust, armor plating and death match arenas Participate in scavenger hunts and find the blueprints necessary to build the ultimate weapons and vehicles Dynamic radio system warns you of bounties on your head For the Sony Playstation 2 Computer Entertainment System

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 17 hours of addictive mahem., January 9, 2004

By 

C. Smith "otherthani" (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RoadKill (Video Game)

Are you a GTA fan??? Need something to tide you over until the next installment of GTA??? Then buy Roadkill to tide you over. At the 19.99 price point you cannot go wrong! I purchased the game for 39.99 and have no regrets.

This is a combination of Mad Max + GTA + Twisted Metal. Although it lacks alot of originality (reason for the 4 star rating) it throws a few surprises in. The game is influenced most by GTA.

GTA INFLUENCES: Radio options are identical to GTA (talk radio is hilarious), Driving physics are identical, Many cars to choose from, SIDE MISSIONS GALORE include Racing, sniping, Rooftop jumping ect.

MAD MAX INFLUENCES: For the most part... its the story... however, instead of a nuclear war... it is a virus that wipes out the government system. Most of the characters and ideas could be taken directly from a Mad Max movie.

TWISTED METAL INFLUENCES: Your vehicle can carry an arsenal of weapons to dispatch of other vehicles. Weapons include a minigun, sniper rifle dumbfire rockets, multiple rockets, guided rocket (very fun), spread gun (think of a shot gun), bolt gun, mines, laser mines, timed mines, emp and more. You get weapons by finding certain crates and blueprints within the map. You get upgrades by destroying vehicles and cashing in their salvage. Its a run and gun game with more of a purpose than Twisted Metal could offer.

SURPRISES: Tornados appear every once in a while and wreak havoc in the city you are in creating an interesting concept in gameplay. The guided missle was huge fun... sit in your car atop a building and fire away. Radio Humor... although this was a big part of the newer GTA games.... the talk radio stations in this game are funnier and more original than the GTA radio. Be warned though... when I say funnier.... I mean really crude humor. If you get offended easily... mute the radio... but if you got offended easily... this game isnt for you anyway. Dragging peds is a great addition. Sometimes I would hit people to see how far I could drag them.

In conclusion... this game doesnt add originality. Its not groundbreaking like GTA, however it could be considered original in the way it combines two games and a movie so well. I can think of no downside to this game. If you are a fan of GTA... it is a must buy... especially at the new price point of 19.99.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I wanted, June 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: RoadKill (Video Game)

I'm a big fan of car combat style games, and this game really hit the spot for me. You won't be able to play Twisted Metal after you try this. The missions are varied, controls are great and talk radio is hysterical. Most missions put you behind the wheel, while others have you manning the machine gun turret. The AI is very good, for example if you hang around too much in one spot, your rival gangs will find you and strat coming down on you pretty hard, so the game forces you to keep moving. The story is your average post-apocalypse B-movie, but that's what these games are all about, right? :)

Just be aware that this game fully takes advantage of its "M" rating: it's extremely violent and language is not for the faint of heart or the young'uns.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nicely open-ended, January 12, 2005

By 

Mitchell M. Tse "mitchelltse" (Antioch, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: RoadKill (Video Game)

What's great about this game is that you can pretty much ignore the missions for as long as you need to and just perform randoms acts of violence. It would have been great if there was a way for you to switch weapons, as opposed to using the last item you picked up.