Spy Hunter

 PlayStation Vita
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 20
  3. Negative: 5 out of 20
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  1. JP-095
    May 4, 2022
    2
    An awful driving/spy game with horrid controls, dull gameplay, lacklustre graphics and style.

    The game itself isn’t much in the way of being a spy game other than the dialogue of the game. The game is centred around your vehicle that can change into various modes: street, off-road and boat (for water sections). Being such a core component of the game the car is both frustrating and    An awful driving/spy game with horrid controls, dull gameplay, lacklustre graphics and style.

    The game itself isn’t much in the way of being a spy game other than the dialogue of the game. The game is centred around your vehicle that can change into various modes: street, off-road and boat (for water sections).

    Being such a core component of the game the car is both frustrating and not fun to use. The handling is extremely floaty, with no sense of weight or control, very easy to lose control of the car.

    The game features no voice acting, with the dialogue coming down to still text that randomly pauses the game. Voice acting would have really added to explaining the story. The “villain” of the game is both awful and cringy, essentially boiling down to someone who “wants to watch the world burn”, that has an unbearable “voice changer” to try and make the player feel a sense of unease but just comes across as cringy and forced.

    The 23 missions get repetitive very quickly, with essentially, shoot this target, escape this thing or destroy this. It’s very stall gameplay, that gives off vibes of being a cash-in type game. Some sections have you using a UAV to select targets to destroy and on-rail shooting sections, both of which are poorly implemented. The on-rail section has awful control and no aiming reticle, so it’s very hard to aim and shoot the target accurately

    The graphics are lacking lustre, with them looking straight out of an early PSP game, very disappointing as the VITA has “PS2.5” type performance, with some games reaching graphics of the PS3. Yes, graphics aren’t everything, but the graphics on Spy Hunter are so bland and generic are just not fun to look at.

    Found near no positives in the game, other than the general premise of a Spy car.

    Would not recommend the game to anyone, it’s boring, ugly, tedious and frustrating from start to end. Feel bad to criticise a game so harshly from what I would imagine is a small team with a small budget. But the game just isn’t any fun and should be avoided other than those looking to collect VITA games.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#65 Best PS Vita Game of 2012
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#55 Most Discussed PS Vita Game of 2012
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#29 Most Shared PS Vita Game of 2012

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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 13
  3. Negative: 3 out of 13
  1. GamingXP
    Jan 30, 2013
    68
    Despite the crude graphics Spy Hunter is somehow addictive and really entertaining. But after all the price is a deal breaker and therefore this game is not so much a bestseller as a collector's item.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Jan 28, 2013
    50
    Unfortunately, there's just not a lot of meat to Spy Hunter: the campaign is a decent length, but rarely does it go anywhere new or interesting. This isn't the sort of game that requires strategy or nuance, and failing a mission – which happens often, as the difficulty tends to spike in places – means replaying the whole damn thing, which is a big turnoff. [January 2013, p71]
  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Nov 20, 2012
    40
    Spy Hunter is a classic, old game from the past that is now at its second reboot. It's a shame that the developers didn't even try to improve this portable version of the game. Even if the gameplay it's not that bad, it's the lack of attention to details that is missing from this game.
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