Smuggler's Run

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Product Features

• Exciting action/ racing hybrid challenges you to deliver the goods and get rich or fail in your mission and get arrested, as the new member of a rugged gang called "The Forgotten"
• Race across three expansive, challenging levels, each over 15 square miles in size, including the arid desert, icy tundra and rocky mountain forest
• Enjoy incredible selection, choosing from 35 different cars with variable but dramatic physics and interacting with up to 8 different vehicles simultaneously
• Developed exclusively for PlayStation 2 by Angels' Studio, Smuggler's Run gives you the opportunity to participate in 3 different game modes

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004UFRD
• Item Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,025 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Review
In Smuggler's Run, you play as a member of an outlaw gang whose primary objective is to successfully smuggle contraband from point A to point B while behind the wheel, be it nuclear secrets, explosive material, counterfeit money, or what have you. The goal, while it varies from level to level, is to deliver as much contraband and make as much money as possible while cruising in your SUVs, two- and four-wheel-drive trucks, Baja buggies, rally cars, and even military vehicles. Each type of vehicle has its own unique feel and handling.

As if this task weren't difficult enough, you have the CIA and the police on your tail. You're going to have to hurry, because in most cases you're given predetermined time limits to complete your pick-ups and drop-offs. And, to top things off, rival gangs also are after the same goods that you're transporting. Smuggler's Run is like a game of tag, only with vehicles.

To add another level of excitement to the game, Angel Studios--the same people who developed the popular Midtown Madness series for the PC--has added real-time vehicle damage as an unavoidable, nasty side effect of racing across treacherous terrain. In this way, the game straddles the fence between a simulation and an arcade game.

Smuggler's Run has a mission-based campaign mode, and is laid out over a dozen levels, with huge environments, sprawling desert landscapes, rural towns, forests, and snow-capped mountains. The game also features an open-ended joyride mode for one or two players (split screen) and "Turf Wars," which allows one or two players to create custom scenarios to suit individual tastes. There's even some "Capture the Flag" thrown in, for good measure.

Smuggler's Run is moderately impressive with its graphics. Extra touches, such as pedestrians, animals, ambient traffic, cacti, trees, roadblocks, waterfalls, and rivers, add to the all-important suspension of disbelief, but there are other, prettier racing games on the Dreamcast and PC.

When all is said and done, Smuggler's Run is a decent and enjoyable racing game for PlayStation2. While the game might not be the best that the new system has to offer, gamers who are looking for a one- or two-player racing experience might want to take it for a spin. --Todd Mowatt

Pros:

• Real-time damage adds to the challenge
• Various two-player modes

Cons:

• Somewhat lackluster graphics

Product Description
As A Member Of A Ruthless Gang Of Smugglers You Have The Tough Job Of Evading The U.s. Border Patrol The Cia And Cutthroat Rivals In Order To Deliver Illegal Cargo.itll Take Complete Mastery Of Your Off-road Vehicle To Make It Across Four Expansive Realistic Environments (arid Desert Icy Tundra Rocky Mountain And Muddy Dense Jungle) That Are Each Over 100 Square Miles In Size. In The Single-player Game As The Leader Of Your Gang You Control Up To Three Other Teammates And Pick From 15 Types Of Heavily Modified Off-road Vehicles. multiplayer Support Allows Up To Four Players To Either Compete Or Cooperate. Realistic Driving Physics Give The "feel Of The Road" Simulating The Different Ground Qualities Of Loose Sand Muddy Dirt Hard-packed Road And Even Snow And Ice. The Option To Simply Joy-ride Around The Areas Will Allow The Players To Learn The Environments Before Having To Run Deliveries For The Black Market.

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Customer Reviews

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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wreel Off-Roadin' Thrills, November 3, 2000

By	Mark Jerome Ferreri (Oceanside, California United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am 47 years old. This is only the second review I've writen to Amazon. ... I bought 8 games the first day, including Ridge Racer 5, DOA2, Madden 2001, SSX, Kessen, and Unreal Tournament. They are all awsome games in their own right, and so is the PS2 system in most ways. I like many genre of intertainment. But I love this game. So does a 31 year old friend who played it alone for 5 hours at my house. I played it for over twice that time (making myself late for work one day). There are, as the gamers review points out, many variables and choices to the 4 game modes available, from going head-to-head, to a free roaming mode where you are free to just go off-roading in a 5 mile square of either forest, desert, or mountain snow (it's the same territory as the forest with entirely new techniques). I had fun knocking cars, trucks and RVs into the forest river while in the free roaming mode, while a friend of mine found out that he could go into an eternal free-fall by scaling up the snow-frozen waterfall and driving off the mountain edge of the map. All the vehicles (10 or so) have different handling algorithms and it's fun to watch your car's body parts fly off as you rip through border patrol cars or hit a deep gulley. Driving skills are a must to advance to the highest levels, as well as familiarity with the areas, and some expiriance with gravity effects in the game. The Border Patrol officials get tougher as you progess, attempting to bulldoze you over and trap you for an arrest ('Crazy Taxi' goals, only with cops to stop you!). The mode where you are a member of a team and competing with another team to steal the most contraband from a crashed plane, ect. is fun in a second way, because you're stealing stuff from the other guys as a team (kinda like soccer, only you really SOCK 'em). I also have a Dreamcast (another fun machine), but I've not found anywhere, a better game. Even the kids (7 to 12, boys AND GIRLS) found this game both fun and addictive. This game is truly a good buy, and for a first generation game, hits the limits of displaying the known processing power of the system. But again, the bottom line is it's fun.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will enjoy this game.........trust me., November 8, 2000

By	David Rose (Vancouver, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews

If you've ever longed for an interactive driving environment, from mowing down herds of buffalo to terrorizing unsuspecting families in their RV's--this game is for you. IT IS FUN. Me and my pal were killing ourselves laughing. In order to justify most of the potential violence in this game, the makers have adopted a sort of "Warner-Bros." attitude to the people and animals that you run down. After hitting them, they fly up and away in the most dramatic fashion, but they always get up for more (and become scared of you, trying to run away--in vain of course!). You can lay in wait at a traffic light, knock it over and watch the cars wipe out as it falls on them. You can stalk an RV, ram it hard, and after it tips, push it along the road and over the side of a bridge into the river. You can laugh with delight at ice-fishers desperately trying to run away from your carnage-craving car, to no avail as their feet slip and slide on the ice.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! In case your so inclined to actually play the missions in the game, it will provide hours and days of re-playable fun.

Highly recommended (especially for those of you who need stress-relief)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great game!, January 17, 2001

By	"hugojack" (Westport, CT USA) - See all my reviews

If you like being chased after by 6 cops who are faster than you, and are will do anything in their means possible to stop you, including ruin their cars, this is the game for you. In single player mode there are enough missions to keep you playing a whole long time. I myself am only on mission 12 and I have been playing for one day. it starts off easy but once you reach the double digit missions it gets a whole lot harder. As for multiplayer mode, it is really sweet. My favorite thing to do is to just free ride around with my friends and explore the levels( snow, desert, forest) which are very extensive. I'd hafta say climbing mountians in this game is really fun. Anyways, if you like car games, and if you like being chased by the cops and having a deadline on your time to deliver the goods, this is definetly a game you would like.