Urban Chaos

by EIDOS

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001ZUGG
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 27, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,168 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Product Description

In the closing days of 1999, a rampant crime wave has come to grip Union City. As either streetwise rookie cop D'arci Stern or vigilante Roper McIntyre, you must counteract the crazed millennium cult that wishes to fulfill Nostradamus's prediction for Armageddon. To defeat the cult, you'll have to complete 30 missions--but how you complete those missions is up to you. There are numerous ways to complete your goal through all of the levels.

In Urban Chaos, you'll utilize a variety of gaming experiences to complete these missions. Your character can ride the subway, commandeer taxis, and even jump between rooftops. In your effort to uncover the truth, you can also use aggressive tactics to pry suspects for information. The soundtrack to this third-person crime fighter is provided, featuring electronica recording stars Photek and Asian Dub Foundation, among others. Urban Chaos supports the separately sold memory card, so you won't have to save all of Union City at one sitting.

GameSpot Review

Urban Chaos started life on the PC, as an ambitious action game that really brought something new to the Final Fight-esque beat-'em-up genre - mostly by tossing in a behind-the-back camera and giving the game more of a free-roaming attitude than a "go here, beat this guy up" mentality. But while the game worked very well on the PC - a platform devoid of all things punching and kicking - whoever was in charge of the PlayStation version forgot to port the fun over to the Sony console. Urban Chaos takes place in Union City. You, as D'arci Stern, rookie cop, must first work through a few training missions, which detail things like how to fight and how to control a vehicle. Then it's off to the city streets. In each level, you're given a few main objectives to accomplish. In one, you must arrest at least one mugger and return an abandoned vehicle to the station. In another, you have to find a way to get a suicidal man down from a building (and no, pushing him off isn't a valid way). Secondary, optional objectives will occasionally pop up as well, asking you to find a stolen police car or find a murderer. From a premise and design standpoint, Urban Chaos sounds like a winner. But there are many, many factors working against the game. For starters, the graphics are horrible. The character models are incredibly blocky, almost every texture in the game is ugly and warped, and the draw-in distance is about 25 feet in front of you, ensuring that you'll never be able to get a clear view of any action until you're right on top of it. The sound is decent. The game features lots of speech that typically works well. The control is decent, though it may be a bit too loose for some players to get a handle on, and the fighting could have been handled much better. Also, the game tries to use action-specific music. Normally, the game is silent, except for the sounds of the streets. But when you start running, a little loop starts playing. It's a nice concept - too bad the loop is almost too short to count as actual music and gets annoying after only a few seconds. The PC version of Urban Chaos really had a lot going for it, and at its core, it was already a very console-style game. However, Eidos simply chose the wrong console, as the PlayStation version of Urban Chaos is ugly and almost completely unplayable. If you've got a PC capable of playing the original version, check it out, and try to forget that the PlayStation version even exists.--Jeff Gerstmann--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad from the Tomb Raider creators, April 13, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Urban Chaos (Video Game)

This game takes you to a game genre that hasn't been touched yet. You're a cop taking down the bad guys in a somewhat like Mario 64 world. You can go anywhere and talk to anybody. Everything you do can effect you somehow. the controls take a little getting use to, but you'll adjust. The voice dialogue is pretty good too.

Looking for something different? Go for this one!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, Different gameplay, March 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Urban Chaos (Video Game)

I dont understand why this game has such a bad rep. Its like a early version of grand theft auto. You get almost complete freedom, you get to be the good guy or the bad guy, or the crooked cop. I never had a problem with the graphics, and the voice overs are pretty good. I would recommend this game, its pretty good.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Urban Chaos, November 4, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Urban Chaos (Video Game)

In Urban Chaos you are a cop called Darci Stern. But in some levels you are a criminal called Mako. The graphics are not the best ones but the gameplay is good. You get most weapons by etheir killing or arresting the gang members ( or Neds as we call them in Scotland). In most levels you have a gun in some levels you must find them or kill for them. The freeform nature of the game means you can explore the area you are in. The weapons include shotguns, pistols, knifes, M16 machine guns and a baseball bat. In Mako's levels you kill the police and can murder innocent people and steal peoples cars (you can also steal cars and kill innocent people in Darci's levels as well).
I am glad the Wildcat gang is'nt here in Ayr. This is a great game from the makers of Tomb Raider and Soul Reaver and I would recommend this to anyone.