Games Database
PS2
Adventure
| Also for: | Xbox, GameCube | ||
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, floating camera | Genre: | Adventure |
| Media: | DVD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Treyarch | Soft. Co.: | Fox Interactive |
| Publishers: | Activision
(GB) |
Released: | 29 Nov 2002
(GB) |
| Ratings: | 15+ | ||
| Features: | Vibration Function Compatible | ||
| Accessories: | Memory Card | ||
Summary
Following yet another Spielberg classic, Minority Report puts players in the role of movie hero and Precrime Officer John Anderton in an all-new adventure as he attempts to prove his innocence while uncovering an insidious conspiracy.
Duplicating scenes from the film's fantasy futuristic environments, the Big Brother-style game world of spy cameras and retina scanners is quite refreshing, gorgeous to look at, and accurately represents the source novel's (written by Philip K Dick, sci-fi fans) vision of future Earth.
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 hard when your future crime has already been seen.
Players will travel some 40 levels of the 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.
Although Minority Report is closely related to the film, it does offer several innovative features of its own. It was a book, then a film. Now it's a game, and a good one at that.
Duplicating scenes from the film's fantasy futuristic environments, the Big Brother-style game world of spy cameras and retina scanners is quite refreshing, gorgeous to look at, and accurately represents the source novel's (written by Philip K Dick, sci-fi fans) vision of future Earth.
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 hard when your future crime has already been seen.
Players will travel some 40 levels of the 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.
Although Minority Report is closely related to the film, it does offer several innovative features of its own. It was a book, then a film. Now it's a game, and a good one at that.
