Why, Atari?! WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
How long it takes to learn to play: 15 minutes
Gameplay value: Not nearly enough
How long it takes to beat on Easy difficulty: 4 hours
Replay value: Don't even go there
Verdict: Don't buy it unless you can't afford another game on a better system
Review: When I first bought Stuntman, I thought the game was incredible beacuse it was my first gameboy advance game. After a while, the game lost its spark. The movies you act in become too demanding with what they want you to do. Take the Egypt levels for example. They come up during the middle of the game and they have some outrageous objectives. Here's an example: One level starts out with you having to make a sharp 90- degree turn and then get to this one point at just the right time so that a tank will shoot at you, then go on to the next goal. That sounds easy, but it is definitely not. If you get there early because the 90- degree turn did not slow you down very much, you'll end up just sitting there until the time comes, which takes away valuable time from the rest of the level. Now, if you just needed to drive through there, that would be one thing. But this is just too tedious to be enjoyable. Another reason that I don't like this game is because there are some categories that the gameboy never should have touched: Racing, First Person Shooters, Tactical Shooters, Hunting, and basically any sports games for that matter. The reasons: With racing, bad graphics, A.I. that's dumb as a post, numerous clipping problems, and cumbersome controls. With FPS games, it's the graphics, the A.I., clipping issues and also, bad control schemes. The same goes for tactical shooters. For sports, they were meant for the consoles because they are more powerful (Way more powerful) and they can provide more flexible control setups along with better A.I. My verdict: Don't buy it unless you're looking for trivial entertainment and GBA games are the only ones you can afford.