Spy Hunter

by Midway

Product Features

• For Play on Your PlayStation 2
• Published by Midway
• Game Genre: Action/Adventure, Game Sub-Genre: Combat Racing

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NCA7
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,991 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #33 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Racing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Based on the arcade classic, SpyHunter is a mission-based combat racing game that puts you behind the wheel of the G-6155 Interceptor. Not just any car, the Interceptor is the ultimate counterintelligence prototype vehicle. First, it's turbocharged and ready to go with 845 horsepower for lightning-fast speed. That's not all--there's an arsenal of futuristic weaponry and morphing abilities to turn the car into a speedboat, jet ski, or motorcycle. Basically, it's everything you need to undertake 14 high-adrenaline missions on wheels.

Should you choose to accept these daring reconnaissance missions, you'll travel to Panama, England, the Middle East, Venice, and other exotic locations around the world. Each location is rendered with a high degree of realism and provides recognizable landmarks and scenery. Throughout, you're the hunter as well as the hunted, pursued by enemies over land, on water, and in the air. Your mission is to take on NOSTRA, an out-of-control multinational corporation headed by an evil madman who's threatening the world.

As SpyHunter, you must always be ready for heavily armed enemy vehicles that lurk around every corner and strike at the first site of the Interceptor. But you have a steady supply of weapons trucks that load you up with machine guns, missiles, lasers, and counterattack weapons such as oil slicks, smoke screens, and cluster mines. Each successful attack gets you one step closer to revealing who SpyHunter is and what he's ultimately after.

Next-generation 3-D design, explosive weaponry, high-tech defensive mechanisms, and, yes, the car, all combine to offer pulse-pounding speed and strategy.

Amazon.com Preview

Midway's classic arcade game finally gets taken to the next generation in this PlayStation2 update. Unlike most remade classics, this game doesn't use its namesake as a crutch but rather stands on its own merit. Paradigm Entertainment is developing the game, and it bears more than a striking resemblance to the company's excellent Beetle Adventure Racing for Nintendo 64. It combines the original's car combat and nifty weapons with Paradigm's penchant for designing slick levels filled with secret paths. The theme song even gets an update as Saliva performs a cover of "Theme from Peter Gunn" for the soundtrack.

Gameplay is already very tight. We got to play half of the game's 14 missions, which take place throughout Panama, Key West, England, Germany, France, the Middle East, and Venice. Players control the versatile G-6155 Interceptor. The vehicle's main incarnations are as a car or boat, but when it takes on too much damage it sheds a layer, transforming it into a motorcycle and jet ski. Classic defensive weapons such as the smoke screen and oil slick are accompanied by new devices like the flamethrower. From the beta version we played, it's easy to see that SpyHunter will be one of the best remakes in years. --Raymond M. Padilla

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spy Hunter - Amazing upgrade of old game!, October 4, 2001

By 

jamesh-lantern-media "jamesh-lanternmedia" (Scotch Plains, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spy Hunter (Video Game)

Just got this game yesterday... I loved the arcade game Spy Hunter when I was a kid, I spent many quarters playing it...

When I heard that they were gonna give it the PS2 treatment, I was thrilled...Altho a little bit skeptical that they werent going to make true to the original...

I neednt have worried...This game has captured the feel of the original game with the plot and gameplay.. AND it has some of the most awesome graphics I have ever seen in a videogame.. This game is a cross between Gran Turismo 3 (which I hate, but i think the graphics are awesome) and the original Spy Hunter...

Controls are excellent, movie sequences make sense, and missions are manageable (not too easy, not too difficult (like Twisted Metal for PS2 - Sheesh!))

Awesome remake of an awesome game!

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DIFFERENT STYLE GAME FOR PS2, BUT VERY FUN AND ADDICTIVE!!!, December 10, 2001

By 

"esckie" (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spy Hunter (Video Game)

I bought this game after reading the raving reviews and found that I enjoyed it as much as the other reviewers. I expected this to be a fun and unique game, as I was an owner of the original Spy Hunter, made for the original Nintendo. I was addicted and happy with the original, as I am with its successor, Spy Hunter for PS2.

The game puts you in the driver's seat of a high-tech, gun-shooting, missile launching, smoke and oil spraying [and more] car/boat. This game is unique in that you control a high-tech car/boat, and in that is an original type of game.

The story line for the game is that you are a secret spy single handedly trying to stop an evil man, who is trying to steal the earth's energy. To me, the story is odd and unrealistic, but it is the graphics and gameplay that makes this game.

PROS:
·Good graphics.
·Unique, yet very fun and addictive game.
·Non-stopping fun.

CONS:
·Odd, unrealistic story

RATING:
Graphics: *****
Gameplay: *****
Fun: *****
Sound: *****
Story: **
Versatility: ****
Overall: *****

ALSO:
·No glitches, slow downs, or graphic errors

-Esckie-

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spy Hunter - Amazing upgrade of old game!!, October 4, 2001

By 

jamesh-lantern-media "jamesh-lanternmedia" (Scotch Plains, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spy Hunter (Video Game)

Just got this game yesterday... I loved the arcade game Spy Hunter when I was a kid, I spent many quarters playing it...

When I heard that they were gonna give it the PS2 treatment, I was thrilled...Altho a little bit skeptical that they werent going to make true to the original...

I neednt have worried...This game has captured the feel of the original game with the plot and gameplay.. AND it has some of the most awesome graphics I have ever seen in a videogame.. This game is a cross between Gran Turismo 3 (which I hate, but i think the graphics are awesome) and the original Spy Hunter...

Controls are excellent, movie sequences make sense, and missions are manageable (not too easy, not too difficult (like Twisted Metal for PS2 - Sheesh!))

Awesome remake of an awesome game!