Starsky & Hutch

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  • Summary: Based on the 70's television show, Starsky & Hutch lets you race through Bay City in Starsky's bright red Ford Torino, while Hutch takes aim at criminals with his .357 Magnum--but don't go thinking this will be a joy ride. If your driving and shooting skills can't keep the TV audience onBased on the 70's television show, Starsky & Hutch lets you race through Bay City in Starsky's bright red Ford Torino, while Hutch takes aim at criminals with his .357 Magnum--but don't go thinking this will be a joy ride. If your driving and shooting skills can't keep the TV audience on the edge of their sofas, your ratings will plummet, the show will be cancelled, and it's "game over." Don't think you can handle all the high-speed thrills by yourself? Find a partner and let them shoot while you drive.… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 23
  3. Negative: 5 out of 23
  1. Armchair Empire
    78
    My primary criticism is the game's lack of multiplayer options. In story mode, the game does allow cooperative play, with one player driving while a partner uses either a light gun or another controller to shoot. But, while it's a unique innovation and it does produce a more true to life experience -- making perps and power-ups more of a challenge to hit as your partner swerves all over the road -- it struck me as more frustrating than fun.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Compatible with a driving wheel and a light gun, which means that the game's missions can be operated cooperatively with one person driving and one shooting. [17 Oct 2003, p.L2T 20]
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  3. Playboy
    75
    It the best drinking game we've played this year. [Aug 2003, p.32]
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  4. G4 TV
    60
    It isn't a great game, and it quickly becomes redundant, but it's a guilty pleasure you can get for cheap.
  5. Gamestyle
    60
    There are loading times that I wouldn’t have thought exist in this day and age, and the graphics are nothing exceptional. Dialogue is bad, the sound is bad 70’s pastiche but the guy who did the cut-scenes deserves a big fat raise.
  6. IGN
    54
    An average driving-shooting game at best. It's got a little hook, the TV ratings concept, which works well and gives the game some lift. But after two or three missions, you'll find the range of missions is incredibly small, the gameplay is overly simplistic, and the style of graphics and dialog to be more of an annoyance than a cult bonus.
  7. TotalGames.net
    20
    Who would want to admit to buying this? We’d certainly be too embarressed to show this to any of our friends, enemies, neighbours, random strangers off the street, pet cat...
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. Jugdishplateface
    Mar 25, 2004
    9
    Awesome game i wish the little 10yr old would relize that games are meant to be fun period and thats exactly what this is fun.
  2. evolution98
    Aug 22, 2017
    6
    A somewhat okay forgotten licensed game to a beloved tv show.

    There was something I always liked about this game when I had a PS2 Magazine    A somewhat okay forgotten licensed game to a beloved tv show.

    There was something I always liked about this game when I had a PS2 Magazine DVD which contained reviews of imports and upcoming games of the year and this game. I remember it so vividly.

    I did like the cel shaded graphics on the character models and the Ford Gran Torino. The other form of graphics was good as well but suffered from poor draw distance. I loved the soundtrack. The sound was great but the voice acting gets really irritating when you tend to make mistakes or drive poorly. The gameplay is fun. There is a variety of unlockables such as cars, bonus tv missions and behind the scenes footage from Huggy Bear.

    The main flaws with the game are the terrible AI, repetitive voice acting, the awful driving controls and that story mode is too short with only 18 missions.

    It still is a fun game and is cheap to buy. I recommend that you try the game out.    … Expand
  4. JeffK.
    Sep 23, 2003
    1
    Just plain bad.
  5. Bacon
    Mar 18, 2005
    0
    First off the game dosnt deserve the score it got from the critics...IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH LOWER. I bought the game because I like starsky and First off the game dosnt deserve the score it got from the critics...IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH LOWER. I bought the game because I like starsky and hutch and it was cheap but it wasnt worth the couple of bucks I paid for it. I dont recomend picking up this game, unless of course your a straight up die hard starsky and hutch fanatic. The games not even worth discussing in detail, just avoid it!!… Expand