STUNTMAN (VIDEO GAME)

'''Stuntman''' is a video game for the PlayStation 2 that was produced by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari.
The game focused around the career of a motion-picture stuntman. It took the player through various movies in which they would perform dangerous stunts as called by the game.

Contents

Films

Reaction

Ports

Sequel

Trivia

External links

Films

There are six films in the game: Toothless in Wapping (a parody of the London gangster genre made famous by films such as ''Snatch''), A Whoopin' and a Hollerin' (a parody of ''The Dukes of Hazzard'), Blood Oath (Steven Segal movies), Conspiracy (a parody of a Tom Clancy film), The Scarab of Lost Souls (an Indiana Jones parody), and Live Twice for Tomorrow (a James Bond style adventure, combining ''You Only Live Twice'' and ''Tomorrow Never Dies''). They are set in London, Louisiana, Bangkok, Switzerland, Egypt and Monaco, respectively.

Reaction

Reviews were mostly positive. Reactions mainly revolved around its unique style of gameplay that had not yet been brought to a bigger audience as of yet. Also, once the player had completed shooting his scenes for a movie, he unlocked a CG trailer for the movie that included some of his driving stunts (The stunts could not be redone for the trailer once completed). One major flaw that people criticised is the difficulty. There was little to no margin for error throughout, and right from the start the game was tough and only got tougher. Time limits were also very tight to the point of which you might have to purposefully miss some stunts just to make it in time.

Ports

Before its release there were rumors of a PC version in development. However, no such version existed. At the time, Reflections was working on Driv3r.

Sequel

Main articles: Stuntman: Ignition

During the E³ 2006 Expo, it was announced that THQ had acquired the rights to the Stuntman franchise. Also announced was that the a sequel for next-generation systems is in development at Paradigm Entertainment. On the 28th of February 2007 THQ announced [1] the game will be released on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Playstation 2 on August 28, 2007.It is the Official Sponsor of WWE SummerSlam 2007. One thing people are already praising prior to its release is the better accessibility when compared to its predecessor and its high difficulty.

Trivia

★ When the player starts a new game, the default name is "VicA". This is probably to imply that the stuntman in the game is a younger Vic Armstrong.

★ In the last scene of Blood Oath, the Tuk-Tuk jump is a reference to a motorcycle jump in Tomorrow Never Dies.

★ In the Tuk-Tuk scenes a poster for "A Toothless in Wapping" is on the back.

★ In the DVD Extras section, there are previews for Splashdown, , and Driv3r.

★ A licence plate from Vermont (Y 8828), appeared on a non-driveable truck in the game. In the same licence plate was used on the Cerrano.

★ The police cars used in A Whoopin' and a Hollerin', appeared later in DRIV3R and . The vehicle first got a name in the last game, where it was named 'Zartex'. A station wagon with identical grille, appeared as a NPC vehicle in this game, and became driveable in the next game.

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