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Stuntman (Video Game)
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Overtake that car! Get close to the explosion! Describe Stuntman! Cut, that was too slow!Stuntman, developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand, is a 2002 Driving Game about a movie stuntman who works on several films that sound incredibly similar in concept to real films. Each chapter focuses on a specific movie, which is split up into different scenes. During each scene, the player has to hit the stunts the Director (who sounds the same no matter what the film is) calls out, with each stunt being some kind of manoeuvre like jumping off a ramp, scraping against cars/walls while sparks dramatically fly off, or driving under a falling pillar just in the nick of time. The more stunts the player hits, the higher rating they get for the film. Mess up too much, and it's a restart for you. Expect to be doing exactly that a lot in the later levels.A sequel, Stuntman: Ignition, was developed by Paradigm Entertainment, published by THQ, and released in 2007 for the Play Station 2, Play Station 3 and Xbox 360; it toned down the difficulty and featured a new scoring system. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Similar to Lawyer-Friendly Cameo above, a few of the directors for the movies sound a lot like people from real-life. Overdrive, in particular, has a director that sounds awfully like Quentin Tarantino. | |
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Night Avenger is a dark, gritty superhero movie filmed in Chicago in which a hero who fights with high-tech gadgets goes up against a Monster Clown villain... now what does that sound like? | |
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London Gangster | |
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Toothless in Wapping is a comedic London Gangster flick inspired by the films of Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.). | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: As stated in the Artistic License – Film Production entry above, the shoots are unrealistically dangerous, featuring long, complicated driving sequences, pyrotechnics going off extremely close to the driver, stunt performers on foot running at the stunt drivers, and what appears to be live ammunition, as many of the in-game machine guns have white tracers streaming from their barrels. | |
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Disaster Movie | |
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Aftershock, a Disaster Movie about a volcanic eruption in a small Pacific Northwest town, is basically Dante's Peak, right down to a subplot about a teenager racing up the volcano to save his grandmother. | |
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Some Dexterity Required | |
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Some Dexterity Required: Due to the realistic physics modeling of the cars, you need to be very dexterous with the controls in order to have any semblance of "control" over the vehicle. The game's introductory levels make you practice various stunt manoeuvres (such as 180s, reverse 180s, drifting through turns, etc) over and over until you've mastered them. It's made mandatory because you'll be using those maneuvers for the entire game. | |
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay | |
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay: To some degree. In many scenes you're guaranteed to fail your first time through after having to make some wild-ass turn with only half a second's worth of warning. | |
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Under the Truck | |
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Under the Truck: You need to perform this stunt frequently in Ignition, and it occurs repeatedly in the last scene of the original. | |
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Artistic License – Film Production | |
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Artistic License – Film Production: All car chase scenes are apparently filmed in one go, starting all the way from the beginning if one mistake is made. The film companies must have impressive budgets, considering the number of times the average player will repeat every mission. This trope is outright Lampshaded in Ignition (which thankfully gave a buffer of five errors before a reshoot is called, unless you REALLY screw up). Incidentally, he's also one of the more characteristically bizarre ones too: Also, all scenes in the sequel are apparently done with live ammunition judging from the very visible tracers and sparking impacts when they hit their target. There's also zero problem with you hitting the stuntmen running around or shooting at you, allowing you to cheerfully send poor actors ragdolling away or even crushing them under the wheels of a monster truck. | |
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Car Meets House | |
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Car Meets House: One of the stunts in the second film was jumping a house, clipping the chimney. | |
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Directionless Driver | |
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Directionless Driver: Averted, with the GIANT ARROWS. Granted, you may miss a few, but they're usually there. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: Each level/movie had dozens of precise manoeuvres you had to pull off while adhering to a strict time limit; in some cases even missing one will fail you. And since there are no checkpoints, this means you have to start the whole level over. After finishing a level you get to see the completed "footage" of your stunts. Because of how demanding the game is, it makes for some amazing replays once you've finally completed a level. | |
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My Car Hates Me | |
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My Car Hates Me: Because of the realistic physics and clunky controls, sometimes the cars are a real bitch to steer. Particularly in the first game's ice-movie, which the second tops with a hovercraft. On ice. | |
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Car Skiing | |
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Car Skiing: One of the more difficult stunts you can pull. | |
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Heroic Bloodshed | |
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Heroic Bloodshed: Blood Oath follows in the established tradition of John Woo films. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Less so with the original, but Ignition had cars with guns, monster trucks and hovercraft. Not to mention a Bond Car. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: You'll recognise several of the movies as homages to famous films, often as a blend of several (except with more car scenes, because otherwise you wouldn't have anything to do in it). In the first game: Toothless in Wapping is a comedic London Gangster flick inspired by the films of Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.). A Whoopin' and a Hollerin', a Southern-set action-comedy about a pair of brothers thwarting bootleggers and crooked sheriffs, is basically The Dukes of Hazzard. The sequel, featured in Ignition, is even made by a fratbro invoked Production Posse famous for doing a Jackass-style series, likely a reference to the 2005 film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard, which starred Seann William Scott (one of the stars of American Pie) and Johnny Knoxville (one of the stars of Jackass) as Bo and Luke Duke. Blood Oath is Hong Kong Heroic Bloodshed action film in the vein of John Woo, with a bit of martial arts thrown in. The Scarab of Lost Souls, a two-fisted action-adventure film about an archaeologist battling Nazis in Egypt while searching for a powerful artifact, is heavily inspired by Indiana Jones. The Simon Crown films are this to James Bond, specifically the films of the Pierce Brosnan era. Live Twice for Tomorrow in the first game in particular seems to be inspired by both GoldenEye and Die Another Day. In the second game: Aftershock, a Disaster Movie about a volcanic eruption in a small Pacific Northwest town, is basically Dante's Peak, right down to a subplot about a teenager racing up the volcano to save his grandmother. Overdrive is a Genre Throwback cop movie set in San Francisco whose protagonist drives a dark green muscle car that resembles a cross between a classic Ford Mustang and a Gran Torino — in other words, a mix of Bullitt and Starsky & Hutch. Night Avenger is a dark, gritty superhero movie filmed in Chicago in which a hero who fights with high-tech gadgets goes up against a Monster Clown villain... now what does that sound like? | |
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Loads and Loads of Loading | |
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Loads and Loads of Loading: The first game is already hard enough as it is, but having to wait through long loading screens for every retry makes it aggravating. Inverted in Ignition. Load times are fairly short, and during the load, one of the bigger stunts is explained to you, and you can continue listening to the description after the level is finished loading. When you restart, there is no loading screen at all. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: The second film is A Whoopin' & a Hollerin' 2, the sequel to a film you do stunts for in the first game. Same with Never Kill Me Again from Ignition and Live Twice for Tomorrow from the original. Though subverted with the former, as the Basco Boys end up being turned into the Creek Boys for the sequel. | |
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Wreaking Havok | |
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Wreaking Havok: At the time it was released, Stuntman was one of the first car games to make an attempt at realistic physics modeling. For example, the various internal parts of the car and their weight are accurately reflected in-game, such that the front end of the car tends to weigh more (because of the engine). This made the wrecks in the game particularly fun (and insane) to watch. The game actually has an "arena" feature where you can set up whatever stunts you like and go wild with the physics. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection, Schmonvection: Played With, but ultimately averted. The lava pools in Aftershock won't cause you to fail unless you fall into them, but it's ultimately justified, as they're only props; however, in the second scene for Aftershock, one stunt involves setting your tires on fire with the Action Button after the character you're standing in for drives over an overheated, cracked part of the road that has lava flowing below it. | |
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Captain Crash | |
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Captain Crash: You'll be surprised how often you get "Hit the X" stunts... | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: Both played straight and averted. If you need to tail someone, you can't hit them. However, you can be told to "Hit the bus". The last stunt of the last scene of the last film in both games has you take out a flying object with your car. | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Once you've completed all the scenes for a movie, you can see a trailer for it. They're actually pretty good. | |
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LampShade | |
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This trope is outright Lampshaded in Ignition (which thankfully gave a buffer of five errors before a reshoot is called, unless you REALLY screw up). Incidentally, he's also one of the more characteristically bizarre ones too: | |
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Genre Throwback | |
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Overdrive is a Genre Throwback cop movie set in San Francisco whose protagonist drives a dark green muscle car that resembles a cross between a classic Ford Mustang and a Gran Torino — in other words, a mix of Bullitt and Starsky & Hutch. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Some of the directors are a bit crazy. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Several, including: The ''Simon Crown'' films. ''A'Whoopin' and A'Hollerin''. ''Night Avenger''. | |
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Ramp Jump | |
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Ramp Jump: A staple of the set pieces in each film. The jumps become more risky as the career continues, including jumping a motorcycle through the gap between a semi truck and its trailer. | |
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Watch the Paint Job | |
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Watch the Paint Job: Too many knocks and you'll fail the level. Either because they cost you too much time or because you totalled the car. Or maybe just because the director hates you. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: The games ask the player to drift, jump over or into obstacles and even drive on two wheels for extended lengths of time. | |
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