Stuntman - CBT disguised as a racing game

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TheArtilleryman

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In light of the recent announcement for Stuntman: Hollywood, it's time for a thread.

Stuntman: Hollywood reveal trailer

The first Stuntman released on Playstation 2 in 2002. The sequel Stuntman: Ignition released in 2007 on both the Playstation 2 and 3 as well as XBOX 360. The first one is infamous for fooling many youngsters (myself included) in to thinking it was a racing game. Instead, you play as a stunt man driving through various movie set pieces, trying to hit prompts and achieve a minimum score to move to the next level. It can become notoriously difficult on some levels, the best example being the train riding sequence at the start of the second Whoopin n Hollerin level.


Whoopin N Hollerin, the second movie/set of levels was the early game filter, where most kids decided "fuck this" and played something else.
I recall one of the James Bond levels taking my friend and I multiple evenings just to beat it. We learned some valuable anger management skills those days.

You play through a couple of movies in game that are obvious homages to real films and shows such as Snatch, Dukes of Hazard, 007 and Indiana Jones. At the end of each set of levels you're treated to the movie trailer intercut with replay footage of your gameplay.


I never played Ignition much, the combo system and more arcade-like gameplay threw me off. The Batman inspired levels were really cool though.

Noobs and casuals complained about following the damn train in GTA SA whilst us Stuntman enjoyers were experiencing our first hernias to the sound of "CUT! KEEP UP WITH LEAD CAR" for the 17'000th time.

I'm tempering my excitement for Stuntman: Hollywood until I see gameplay. The Knightrider section got me hyped, then I saw the Deloreon. Multiple nostalgic IPS mingling in a new piece of media has not been a mark of good quality lately, though I guess if any game could do it, it would be one that's all about movie homage, like Stuntman.
What the hell would the Back to The Future levels even look like?
 
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I hope they add the Defender from the Viper tv show.

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I'm a retard, I didn't notice the snippets of gameplay after the title reveal.

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That's Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise in the first photo. Guess they will tackle the whole trilogy.

Its weird to see a mostly forgotten relic of the PS2 era suddenly return with such iconic IPs as Back to the Future and Knightrider in it's pocket. The in-game movie productions were all parodys or homage in the first 2 games. Instead of the Duke Brothers it was the Basco Boys. instead of Batman/Dark Knight it was Night Avenger etc.
It seems they have now received official sponsorship from the big iconic IPs rather than having to create parodies of them. I'm unsure if this is a good or bad thing for the sake of the game. How will being beholden to the real IP holders affect it?
 
Ive said this before in the racing games thread and i"ll say it again, I wish that reflections kept the franchise and should be working on this. But that won't happen because (and I'm positively sure on this) that nobody out of the 150 people there at ubisoft reflections are veterans of the driver games, of the destruction derby games, or the first stuntman game.
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I hope they add the Defender from the Viper tv show.

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I'd kill for them to do something with smokey and the bandit but I'm sure that universal doesn't want to touch that franchise because it's forgotten by most people unless your southern or a fan of burt reynolds movies. I highly doubt that universal will celebrate that movie's 50th anniversary when that happens next year. Hell stuntman owes it's life to Hal Needham, Smokey And The Bandit, and Hooper.
Another good stuntman level idea could also be The Blues Brothers in chicago
Edit: remember, Smokey And The Bandit was the 2nd highest grossing movie of 1977 in the usa, a movie that had a 4.3 million dollar budget, and grossed $126 million dollars domestically (because it was only released in the us)
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Ignition was the only one I played and personally really enjoyed it. It, God of War III, and Ridge Racer 7 were some of my most played PS3 titles back when we still had ours.
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It was the extra pressure of having to keep the combo meter going even when it made you drive stupidly that was irritating. IIRC there were parts of some levels where it was just a straight line to the next objective but you had to swerve and slide like a drunk just to get points from some tiny drifts to keep your combo going. You also had to combo an entire level to get a perfect rank, rather than just hitting all the director's prompts. It was annoying IMO.

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Ive said this before in the racing games thread and i"ll say it again, I wish that reflections kept the franchise and should be working on this. But that won't happen because (and I'm positively sure on this) that nobody out of the 150 people there at ubisoft reflections are veterans of the driver games, of the destruction derby games, or the first stuntman game.
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It begs the question of who's in charge of designing Stuntman: Hollywood. One thing they must understand is that it needs to be quite fucking difficult and refuse to hold your hand. Do they have the balls for that?
 
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TheArtilleryman said:
It begs the question of who's in charge of designing Stuntman: Hollywood. One thing they must understand is that it needs to be quite fucking difficult and refuse to hold your hand. Do they have the balls for that?
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It's being developed and published by Saber Interactive
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And their vehicle based video game track record is mostly done by the people behind the the spintires/mudrunners/snowrunners franchise. but I'm going to guess the gameplay is going to be like stuntman ignition instead of the first one. Why make a game that's ballbreakingly hard when this is clearly a licensed game which means that general goyim public are going to be playing it instead.
 
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