Starsky & Hutch
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Product Summary

• Based on the hit 70s TV show, you'll drive through Bay City while shooting crooks with your. 357 Magnum
• High-speed driving and shooting action through 18 episodes -- and try to keep the audience TV entertained, or your show will be cancelled
• Explore over 150 miles and collect explosive power-ups that add to the excitement, as you patrol Bay City
• Thrilling two-player cooperative gaming -- one shoots while the other drives
• Voiceovers by TV show regular Huggy Bear

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Video Game Reviews of Starsky & Hutch

Customer Review: Fun Budget Title
Summary: 4 Stars

Not expecting much, after playing the demo I immediately could tell this game had potential to be a very fun game, and right I was! For a measley $20, I also recieved a Starsky And Hutch "LP" for free, and enjoyed a game with quite a bit of replayability and adrenaline pumping action.

Playing the solo version is fluid, intuitive and fun. You car handles wonderfully and the the cinematic jumps, explosions and auto-aiming shooting function works great. As far as shooting while driving, it's not about aiming, but your timing in regards to when you pull the trigger. When your recticle turns red, you get a critical hit and a bump in VR points. When it's yellow on an enemey target, you still do damage but not nearly as much.

You have to earn so many police "badges" of a specific level to move on to the next "season." And by collecting "Huggy Cards" in missions and various weapon power-up's, and achieving particular final VR ratings new modes open up for you in the game. Free roam is fairly bland but worthwhile as you simply collect badges placed around town and in many instances require you to make stunt jumps to get them. You have to do this without running out of VR points, and are rewarded VR points for collecting each one. The "TV Episode" mode is a lot of fun, consisting of things like races where you try and take out other cars and of course avoid the citizens and scenery as you go...but it doesn't mean you can't be a little reckless as the game is fairly forgiving and the controls are excellent.

The Havok engine looks good and the graphics do a great job of providing realistic physics and nice explosions and an immersive, big city to drive around in. In fact the city is absolutely huge, yet the game performs without a hitch, unlike, say, GTA3. There are no loading times while you're in-game.

Over-all the game is a treat for the money, it's not a deep, open-ended game like GTA3, but it does a great job of being faithful to the 70's TV series, has great 70's music and voice over's from the characters.

It's a shame this game isn't more highly thought of, for the cost of it I think it's even more fun than a game like Serious Sam. Sadly underrated.

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