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Adventure
| Also for: | PS2, GameCube | ||
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, floating camera | Genre: | Adventure |
| Media: | DVD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Treyarch | Soft. Co.: | Fox Interactive |
| Publishers: | Activision
(GB) |
Released: | 6 Dec 2002
(GB) |
| Ratings: | 15+ | ||
| No Accessories: | No Accessories | ||
Summary
Activision's Minority Report puts you in control of the central character as played by lovely little Tom Cruise in the film of the same name. Pre-Crime Officer John Anderton, a man who captures the baddies before they get to do anything, umm, bad, goes up against his fellow law enforcers, as he is accused of a crime he hasn't committed/will not commit.
Originally sprung from the pen of legendary sci-fi storyteller Philip K Dick, Minority Report's view of a dystopian future is well represented in its video game incarnation. The scale and detail of the world therein is impressive, daunting even.
With a large amount of action-based gameplay, Minority Report's primary game style is that of a third-person beat-em-up, albeit with a few rather potent weapons. Battling both human and robotic enemies with an explosive arsenal, riot shotguns are a standard in this future world, but if you choose, you can engage in close range hand-to-hand combat to conserve ammunition. And when you inadvertently step onto the wrong side of the law, your skills in combat will prove invaluable to your progress. Proving your innocence is difficult when your future crime has supposedly already been seen.
Players will travel some 40 levels of this future world, and with a full range of cinematic action abilities and a hyper-realistic rigid-body physics system, players will be able to vault over barricades, throw enemies through plate glass windows and don Jet Packs to fly through environments and avoid pursuers.
Minority Report, the game, has done no disservice to the film, inasmuch as the film version was true to the source novel. If you've read the book and seen the movie, go the whole hog and try this too.
Originally sprung from the pen of legendary sci-fi storyteller Philip K Dick, Minority Report's view of a dystopian future is well represented in its video game incarnation. The scale and detail of the world therein is impressive, daunting even.
With a large amount of action-based gameplay, Minority Report's primary game style is that of a third-person beat-em-up, albeit with a few rather potent weapons. Battling both human and robotic enemies with an explosive arsenal, riot shotguns are a standard in this future world, but if you choose, you can engage in close range hand-to-hand combat to conserve ammunition. And when you inadvertently step onto the wrong side of the law, your skills in combat will prove invaluable to your progress. Proving your innocence is difficult when your future crime has supposedly already been seen.
Players will travel some 40 levels of this future world, and with a full range of cinematic action abilities and a hyper-realistic rigid-body physics system, players will be able to vault over barricades, throw enemies through plate glass windows and don Jet Packs to fly through environments and avoid pursuers.
Minority Report, the game, has done no disservice to the film, inasmuch as the film version was true to the source novel. If you've read the book and seen the movie, go the whole hog and try this too.
