Jet set radio oozes style, from the first moment you load the game up you will notes the games unique cell shaded look (jet set radio was the first game to use cell shaded graphics, of course it has been copied many times in games such as Zelda and viewtiful Joe) the game looks just like a cartoon and the cartoon look fits the game so well.
The whole idea of jet set radio is to skate around a area tagging walls sounds easy right? Well Sega have chucked in a load of police that really don’t like taggers. The first levels will start off easy you can easily out run the police as they are on foot but soon they will start sending in helicopters, dog’s, tanks and hit squads and you will have to plan how you are going to get around them and plan what walls you are going to tag first as some tags are larger and take longer to paint.
Although tagging is the main chunk of the game there’s loads more to do, some tasks you will be challenged by a potential new member to your crew, if you can complete the challenge you will have a new member, these challenges start off easy but soon you will be doing all kinds of grinds, flips and landings. Other tasks involve racing other crews through the massive levels, you will need to know all the short cuts in order to win and the final face off with the other crews involves tagging them, if you can tag all three members ten times each you will take there turf.
The level designs are great they range from roof tops to sewers to back streets to parks all the levels have loads of rails for grinding and short cuts all over the place, trust me you will need these short cuts to get away from the cops. The music is very well written, before you know it you will be humming the songs as you are playing and defiantly builds a great atmosphere.
When tagging the computer gives you a certain tag but if you go in to the options you can spend as long as you want customising your own tags or if you really want you can look for tags on the internet and transfer them to your game, although this is not a crucial feature it certainly adds to the game and I am sure some people will like designing there own tags.
The only problem with jet set radio is every now and then the camera will go mental and you will mess up a jump although within a short while you will learn to control the camera quite well with the L trigger that centres it but the L trigger is also the some button that uses the spray can, why could they not of set the centre camera button somewhere else? It’s not like you use many buttons, anyway you soon learn to get around these problems and after a hour or so you won’t even notest.
Overall jet set radio is one of my faviout games this generation it oozes style has great game play and is a really unique game I say bring on the sequel.