Classic Game Room - SMUGGLER'S RUN review for PlayStation 2
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2016
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Classic Game Room reviews SMUGGLER'S RUN for Playstation 2 (PS2) from Angel Studios and Rockstar Games released in 2000, an open world driving game where you evade border patrol in a dune buggy and monster truck!
Compete in races, challenges and drive through a storyline mode that feels like a rough draft of the GTA series. Classic Game Room Smuggler's Run RUclips review features Smuggler's Run gameplay recorded from PS2. 
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This was the first PS2 game I ever played and I remembered thinking, "Wow, I can't imagine how graphics will ever get any better than this."
Hahaha.
Andy I thought the graphics in this game looked a little too much like what I already experienced on PS1 when I played it on launch day on October 26, 2000. The long draw distance and smooth animation were impressive I must say.
rock star is sitting on a gem here... They need to bring this back with FULL CUSTOMIZATION OF VEHICLES AND SOME ACTION
Jaivon Jenkins It's funny because rockstar based their new dlc of the same name, smugglers run is based off this game completely.
I know right
Gta has some in depth customization
What a nostalgia trip this is, i remember just driving around for hours as a kid not even really doing missions just driving around for so long in fact the game would freeze from time to time, and I'd also somehow drive off the edge of the map.
Remember trying to climb that wall on the edge of the map, i think i made it up to the top like once or twice
@@Master-baiter2 absolutely, I think I did several times
I've became a smuggler thanks to this game.
+Eryk Pawlik Meet me at the trap house at midnight homie. I got yo skrilla.
+Tom Wilson HAHAHAHAHA
If you had this and midnight club on the same memory card, you unlocked the dune buggy in midnight club for free.
Thats crazy! I never knew that
That’s amazing wish developers did more things like this now a days
I remember renting this over 10 years ago and spent a whole Sunday afternoon/evening playing it. It's such a vivid memory!
I remember this game being everywhere in the early days of the PS2, but no one seems to remember it.
first ps2 game i ever played, straight from n64 to this. blew my fuckin mind.
+Chainsaw Same with me.
Wow the memories from this game. I remember I was rooting through my PS2 games years ago and found this and enjoyed it a bit too much... I showed it to my cousin and he came over a lot and we always messed around in the free roam, we both got obsessed with the game and eventually, he bought the game for his PS2. Ahh the memories. I still have my PS2, not the game though, so I might just buy a cheap copy online just to try it again :)
So how about that Smuggler's Run 2 review? :P
Not as good.
This was a great free roam game. Didn't really like the missions, just the roaming exploring and the physics engine was pretty good for the time.
The Gamecube Version of 2, (Warzones) is the BEST one ever made though.....
The Joy Ride version of Smuggler's Run was so much better than the 2nd one. This game was absolutely awesome!!!
I really liked this game, was up there with SSX as my favorite PS2 launch titles.
I had a recent flashback of playing this game when I was a kid and just randomly remembered the name glad someone did a review
I love this channel, Havent played this game in a long ass time. Thanks mark.
Ahh man when I was a kid I would go over to my neighbour's house to play this before he got many other games on PS2. We would just fuck around in free roam mode, smashing into each other and driving off high cliffs for fun. It was a simpler time.
This was my very first game on the ps2, very exciting times! I loved it, was so much fun playing it with friends. Good times😊
I used to play this game all the time at my friend's house after school this brings back a lot of memories
Mark reviewed the Smuggler's Run in less than 12 minutes.
haa
+WeirdoTZero This game may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts...
He even didnt showed the best mode of this game, Turf War.
Its like capture the Flag, in a Battle Royale Race.
Would be a great game with the online players today.
Still got this game, still playing it :D
How many NPC vehicles get loaded into the map in Joyride mode?
Smugglers run requires skill and strategy to evade the police in later stages.
They copy you. The AI doesn't react to your movements, but actually are connected to your input controls giving them the ability to stay perfectly in your driving line once they get ahead of you. You have to in some instances drive for the police officer in front of you. They wont avoid objects on front of them.
So say a tree coming up around a corner and a police officer gets in front of you, don't swerve to miss the tree until you have drove the police car into the tree.
Each car once it reaches a certain distance becomes tethered to your controls. So if the police cat is behind you but off center to the left. You can drive then off the cliff if you hug the line.
Lots of strategy and it takes hours to master and is completely thrilling when you can accomplish the harder missions with great consistency.
I love this game.
I honestly don't feel that much similarity between this and gta.
I decided to make a drinking game: take a shot whenever Mark mentions GTA.
I may need a liver transplant.
I loved this game back in the day
I remember snagging this game right after Midnight Club and Timesplitters for my PS2 back in 2000. It was a neat but frustrating game at times. Until you mentioned it I never really thought of this game and GTA3 were connected. Makes alot of sense though looking back on it. Always liked the Baja styled truck
Is this a review of gta or smugglers run... You were too harsh with the negative comments, at the time this game was awesome!
I think this was actually a PS2 launch title.
I remember seeing this on PS2 launch day, but then I read the back of TimeSplitters and made it my choice for my first PS2 game. Although seeing this game now, I kinda want it.
I played both Smuggler's Run and Time Splitters near the launch of the PS2. Both were amazing games, but this is the one I've kept playing year after year, even though I've finished over 4,000+ games and played thousands and thousands.
This game along with Geist and gun were literally my childhood everyday as soon as I got home I’d rush to my GameCube and load one of them up
hey, we all loved smugglers run, and i REALLY liked that i was winning taking routes other people just couldn't seem to make it through!! the ps2 was still figuring itself out and that was the good shit of the time!! and we all thought it was funny that they never wanted to tell u that u were smuggling drugs... so the mommies wouldn't get upset. but we knew!!
Wow this game! I have not seen this for a long time!
Grand Theft Auto V got Smuggler's Run as a side mission
Adolfo Boisselle now its a DLC
So dope! Are parts of this game set in Colorado?
Had no idea this was an earlier rockstar title.
The smoking car damage, sound effects, so familiar. Rough draft indeed.
I always wanted to try this game when I was younger
I remember this game, because it was always on the second hand shelf in my local games store.
3:56 I'm laughing so hard right now
I can’t get passed 32 big mistake. Can anyone help?
I loved this game when I was a child, brings back memories
It's funny, I never made the connection between this and GTA back in the day. It now makes so much sense that I got bored of this since I hated the driving missions in GTA 3. Great review!
Loved this game back then.
Jeeze..I was 5 years old when I first played this game..take it if it was released in 2000
One of the first console games I played back when I was 7 or 8, never knew how to play the levels but had a great time trying to push the deer/NPCs over the waterfall...
I remember this game being eternally in the second hand section of game shops. Piles and piles of them for about £2.
Fun Fact: The police sirens sound effect in this game was reused in Grand Theft Auto 3.
Man I miss thos3 fucking days when ps2 was out...kids dont even know how it was for us back then...the best fucking graphics man , the best games
Remember getting this as part of the PS2 package I bought on release day.
My favorite part about this game was that if you had a save file from Smugglers run, you could drive the buggy in the original Midnight Club. It was mad OP and all of my friends were baffled that they never unlocked the dune buggy.
This is one of my favorite driving games of ALL time and I've played thousands and thousands of games. The part I like though is Joy Ride. There are just very, very few games that offer this type of immersion and coolness while just letting you drive around. One of the awesome things among many is the fact that in Joy Ride, the cars do NOT reset. Therefore, it doesn't matter where you drive on the world, that is about 6 square miles x 6 square miles, the cars continue on their path, WITHOUT resetting.
I've honestly never found a game like this where the cars don't reset, no matter how far you get from them, OR how long you take. You can also damage the cars to the point to where they can't move anymore and you can then place them anywhere you want to. It is a shame that basically no one has emphasized the FREEDOM this game offers via Joy Ride, and the LACK of freedom most other so-called free roam games give, in comparison to this game.
Moreover, at the launch of the PS2, which is when this game was released, it is AMAZING that there were TWO different tracks at over 6 miles square. Most open world games offer less than 6 total square miles, much less 12 total square miles. This game is a true and sadly, forgotten relic of just how innovative Rockstar can be. I wish more free roam games were like this today, instead of the game forgetting, and remapping memory the second another car, person, or item gets within 100 feet of the character in a free roam game.
I still play this game sometimes on the ps2 emulator. I was ridiculously good at this game as a kid.
You said the rally car is useless, I totally disagree. It takes the most skill by far. But it's my favorite. Once you're good with it it's fun af.
i loved this game! one of the first i played on ps2. It was very ground breaking at the time of release.
Oh i remember this game saw it on my Uncle's room just wanted to take it with me and play it at home haha :P
had fun w/this game
I'm happy to see someone talking about this game, seeing as it is a childhood favorite of mine, one I still play to this day with close friends and family when we desire a bit of grab bag chaos. However, I feel I need to share some criticism, as well as a critical observation on the modern games industry, so please excuse me.
Constantly comparing this gams to GTA because of a shared publisher does a great disservice to its appeal. They are fundamentally different games with broad distinctions in purpose, and GTA does not do what Smugglers Run did, let alone better.
It feels like you are searching for a throughline to include in your script, but ultimately the sentiment comes off as putting down Flight Simulator for not being able to gun down the Covenant from Halo just because of their shared Microsoft parentage.
What aspects modern GTA has in common with games like Midnight Club and Smugglers Run and so on are pale in comparison; GTA has spited its own identity to further unite the different flavors of Rockstar's library under a single umbrella. The results of this homoginization has been sloppy to say the least, with too many elements of too many different distinct identities and niches not gelling well together and confusing the core appeal of GTA, and I do not believe that is a hot take.
Truthfully I would love to see Rockstar be willing to experiment as much as they did in the 2000's. Fun arcade driving games like Smugglers Run are nearly extinct, top of the line, well constructed and quality assured racing games are non existent in the current zeitgeist, there hasn't been another game like Bully despite its cult status, and Red Dead Redemption 2 was martyred in a lazy attempt to create a second cash cow.
Smugglers Run, in reflection, is such a refreshing experience when considering how corporate greed and an industry standard for bloated game development have led to so many games feeling overly complex, overly ambitious, overly designed, and of course overly identical. It just reinforces the addage: they don't make em like they used to. Here's hoping indie devs see what a goldmine something like Smugglers Run is and set out to create a true spiritual successor.
one of my favorites
It’s so weird seeing something I experienced as a kid being called classic
2:07 Speaking of which, why hasn't Rockstar brought back the flamethrower for Grand Theft Auto 5? It's part of the iconic arsenal of the franchise. It's like having a Doom game without the Super Shotgun or a Max Payne game without the M4 Carbine.
Bruh the second game was LIFE!
remember how OP the Grenadier was?
Go back and play Joy Ride in this game.
can you review rumble racing on ps2 by ea?
I had this on GC it was awesome!
This game was pretty impressive on the PS2 back in 2000. Though it's probably outdated now since the release of the Grand Theft Auto games. Maybe Rockstar could make a Smuggler's Run HD with advanced physics, more missions and variety, improved controls, and of course, advanced HD/Ultra HD graphics.
this one has ragdoll physics thou, something i always missed in the gta series (ps2)
I had this on the GC it was awesome.
Played this game back in high school, it seems so weird because it looked a lot better back then
Lee Harvey! When you ran over that cow and left tire tracks...I wanna party with you cowboy.
So this is where GTA all started from eh? Interesting ..... and thanks Lord Karnage for bring us this video.
Sean DeMarco not really. Maybe it helped concept GTA 3. But GTA 1, London, and 2 were already out by this time and in most ways GTA 3 (in ways VC and SA) was really just a 3D remake of GTA 2.
But I see what you mean too dude. Sorry if I sound like a prick, just couldn't help it.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES oh my god
I really enjoyed second one. It was one of the best games on PS2.
My very first PS2 game
I used to play this, I used to think the smoke from the check points was so realistic lol
So when are they making a new midnight club?
Damn dude, that sucks! I'm sure you're aware of it, but OnTrack is a good company for send out data recovery. At least you had all that stuff on the USB stick. Looking forward to more codegasm once you get to that point.
I miss this game
OMG THIS GAME IS MY CHILDHOOD!!!
Warzones was my favorite Gamecube game.
Apparently they just added a Smuggler's Run mode to GTA Online. That's unfortunately the only thing we'll ever get from this series.
Angel Studios also did the N64 port of Resident Evil 2 which I think happens to be the best version of that game by a mile.
i rented this game from Movie Gallery as a kid.....and i kept the instructions.;)
My childhood ^^
I used to play this game a lot with my cousin and we would just spend hours playing 2 player and climbing the big mountain and racing and just messing around
Smuggler's Run and Midnight Club should be PS2 Classics on PSN.
omg, it's the CUSTOM VAN!
Awesome 😈
I remember when this came out I considered it photo realistic ha ha
I've been watching your videos since i first started watching yotube, man those were better times, before all this advertising and shit, oh well. still love your videos thanks for hours of entertainment
If you fall i will continue the mission to review everything .
The cars fly away when hit cheat from San Andreas came from this game.
I am a grandmother & I beat this game idk how many times. I loved playing it but would love for it to be a race game & I always had to turn her voice off. Please make it again?
This game was my life
It's really not fair to compare this game to GTA as it's very different. There is much more strategy involved when choosing the best route to take to the next pickup with what ever vehicle you chose. The terrain is extremely hilly and can really mess your ride up if you take them too fast. The cops do become stupidly difficult to deal with, I will give you that.
Everyone should go back and watch his old videos where he had a normal voice. Haha His voice isn't naturally deep...so weird.
***** It does but not that much. If you listen, his voice is being processed digitally and there is an echo effect. It's fake! Ha
***** Leave me alone Kim!
Yes! This game was the best!
you must do the second thes oubdtrack is amazing and tracks are nice as well
also one of the maps, my favorite, also has a mine field in which to take care of cops
Armored Core 2, best Ps2 launch game imo, really love it. But it's universally ignored by all...but yeah this game just looks alright. Timesplitters is a fun launch title too.
When are you going to review Driv3r?!?
Me & my brother enjoyed the living shit outta this game. Also the sequel is pretty fun & we just go derping around in Russia's minefield so see who gets launched the farthest. :)
Well, Rockstar made a Racing game, huh. Never see that everyday.
Rally Car was actually very nice car to drive with lightweight cheat
fucking loved this game
Is a Fallout 4 review in the works?