The article on porting this game to Xbox is actually worth a read, very interesting info on the hardware differences with the PS2, and explains why the port took 8 months pretty well
I am 29. I can confirm I had SO much fun with this game. In no way would it be accepted today but in the early 2000’s it was so fun. And the big Spanish gang member was the funnest to use
Honestly I don’t see why. It didn’t stir up much controversy when people realized it was cartoony. Unless it deals with real life situations I don’t think it would be that bad. GTA and manhunt were much, much worse back then
I remember buying this game at Blockbuster for $20, still have it too. I had a lot of fun during the mall level but after that it got old really fast. Great video!
I remember grabbing this game from blockbuster. The cover reeled me in, but at the time GTA was all the hype and this game didn't hold a candle to it back then. I revisited the game recently and it really is very fun in short spurts, would have been a real banger in an arcade cabinet.
State of Emergency and Midnight Club were clearly Rockstar throwing out the concepts that they were building into GTA, seeing what worked and what didn't
@wintermute8853 lol try hard. Obviously I was referring to GTA3, and I quite clearly used the term 'concepts' so I would probably look that word up before leaping straight into 'online douche' mode
Back in the day when Rockstar used to release games other than gta or red dead. Or rather should I say back when Rockstar used to release games period :) Btw, I would like to suggest you a fps licenced game : "Die hard Vendetta" which was in a way die hard 4 before the real die hard 4 (live free or die hard) was released in 2007. And is not canon anymore because funny enough both of them focus on John's daughter but she becomes a police officer in the game die hard vendetta and she's not in die hard 4 (2007)
I remember this getting hype alongside Dynasty Warriors 2. "Putting as many objects onscreen at one time" was one of those technical hurdles that some devs really wanted to get over with the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, alongside "Making long hair look good on characters" and my personal fave, "Making great looking water." It's a shame then that VIS never did much with State of Emergency; I only played it for the first time a bit last year via a modded Xbox, but it definitely lacks substance. I know SOE2 was made but it doesn't push the same kind of gameplay by the looks of it, instead diverting from this stuff to do its own thing. It would be GREAT to see a modern version of this following the kind of design as Omega Force's action games; a lot of their stuff like Dragon Quest Heroes, Persona Strikers and Fate: Samurai Remnant do so much more with the "Musou style" battles against hordes and hordes of enemies, wielding that kind of action onto REALLY solid action-RPG cores. A modern State of Emergency done in a similar style to something like that would be fantastic to see nowadays. You just know a developer could absolutely nail some kind of great cartoony style like Paladins, Wildstar or Bleeding Edge; something like that.
Very enjoyable profile on this early Rockstar game! I've never played it but recently bought for my beloved Xbox library. I appreciate your take on it my friend!
I played this on ps2 at an uncles house as a kid, it was fun enough and the concept was really cool to me at the time. I've never met anyone else that has played the game though.
Dude THANK YOU, I’ve never been able to remember the title of this game!!! I’ve tried to tell two of my buddies about this game to no avail because I couldn’t remember the name🤣 THANK YOU
I remember seeing this game advertised like crazy in every gaming mag at the time. By the time I actually got myself a PS2 in Jan 2002, GTA 3 was out and this game quickly faded into obscurity due to the middling reviews and insane amount of great titles coming out during that era.
Yeah there was definitely some crazy good titles on the PS2 that overshadowed SoE in 2002. Kingdom Hearts nd Vice City come to mind. Final Fantasy X was in 2001 but in December of that year so I'd say that overshadowed it. It was a great time for gaming!
I played this game on ps2 and holy hell the memories cutting off heads and blowing up stuff but i remember playing the second one and not having that much fun with it like the first one! Awesome review
This game will always hold a special memory for me growing up, I somehow randomly clicked the right buttons to enter my first ever cheat code. I was suddenly punching off heads and that would lead to me buying so many cheat code books back then and renting everything, just to test out the cheats.
Great review. Love going back to play games once beloved to see how they hold up. This is a perfect example of that. Even if it doesn’t hold up, mix in a lil nostalgia and i drink it all the same 😅
I remember seeing a copy of this at a vintage shop… it has a big sticker on it saying, “ID will be asked before Purchasing” Kinda adds to the mystique of the game to me. Like the “Parental Discretion is Advised” warning on CDs lol
I remember this game men😂 aw damn good memories! me and my cousin's would go to my uncle room and borrow it from him to play on my xbox they dont make games like this no more if you played this back in the day and remember this game then you a OG gamer!
This is one of my favorite Rockstar games. I always hoped they would revive this one. In my mind, this was Rockstars "trifecta", GTA III, Max Payne, and State of Emergency! My young self was in video game heaven 😂
I hated this game when I got it for Christmas as a kid at 1st, but I picked it back up after about 3 weeks of not playing and played the hell out of it once I figured out what I was doing. I have fond memories of being up all night causing chaos.
my parents were divorced, and every other weekend i'd go to my dads.. he had a new wife and i loved my step bro. i was around 8 or so when this game came out and my step bro was 9. i remember going there and he pulled this game out of his collection.. And man i was so jealous that he was allowed to play it. i grew up in a military home and my mom wouldn't let me play anything.. especially Xbox live and ps2 online. I told my step bro "I'd do anything to live here" He could watch scary movies and play GTA.. Then when i got older i realized that my dad and his mom were party people and it kind of shows how little they genuinely cared about my step bro by letting him play all these crazy games when he was in like 1st grade haha!! 2004 we were older and i dont think its the end of te world to let kids play Halo 2 online, But i sure as heck wouldn't let my kids play games like that unsupervised at that age. I cant lie tho i was eternally jealous that i couldnt play halo 2 with him everyday online. There was a magic in the air back then. I think because i was removed from being able to play every day, It made me appreciate the few days a month i could for way longer.. once i got into highschool and my mom kicked me out at 17 (She would only let me play an hour a night up until that point and that pissed me off so bad) And i went to go live with my dad where i could play for hours a day unsupervised, i got pretty bored of most video games, yet i still played.. but that magic moment i used to feel every game back then is felt few and far in between nowadays after spending 6 plus hours a day in college playing haha! State of emergency will forever flash me back to the best times
I used to always play as the dude that looked like tommy verceti from vice city. Like everyone else the mall level was my favorite. I couldnt even imagine a game getting by these days with this kind of content. I ask a lot of people around my age about this game if they are into gaming that is. And i always get a no. Its just me and my childhood friends that played it together that remember. I always thought that was weird due to it being a rockstar game. Great video though.
Brilliant I also remember looking at countless games on shelf’s and this one stood out so much. I liked the art style and my mum just glared at me for even picking it up
I was super hyped for this game,but it seemed to take forever to come out. Having already played GTA3,it fell short,and personally I just couldn’t get into it. Still,a fun premise and I played it recently and enjoyed it,so it has value.
"Tech demo" is the right word for it. This was not the follow-up to GTA3 that I was expecting, and while that might have been unfair, the game itself didn't feel very good until I unlocked the last character (the others felt weak and ineffective).
Thank you! This game has echoed in my mind for a decade. I had no idea if it was even real or a dream. I couldn't remember anything but the gameplay in the mall. As a kid in the early 2000s with a ps2 i had to sneak to play because it was my dads. That game was the shit. Short missions are perfect for a kid who isn't allowed to play it. But parents with ps2s had to go to work at some time
i remember playing multiplayer on the XBOX version and my grandfather (RIP -2020), seen us playing and said "So this is what you guys consider entertainment? Jeez laweez."
I bought the PS2 version from KbToys. I had some fun playing it, but definitely not as good as GTA3 or especially Vice City. I miss the Rockstar who made single player focused games like this back in the day. There was a sequel, but I think it was only released on PS2. I'd like to see a remaster or remake for the original.
Can't disagree with the scores or your review(which was excellent), I don't think I spent more than an hour solo, yet with friends it was always in rotation for a change of pace. I believe your "xbox upgrades" comment only cements a definite future Xbox exclusive upgrades vid in 2024! Thanks for a great channel and Happy New Year!
@@campxbox Gotta mention the fur textures for Crash Bandicoot and I have two racing recommendations if you are interested... Quantum Redshift and Mercedes World Racing(those graphics! trust me).
i actually liked going to my aunts house when my uncle had this game for ps2 lol (visiting fam sucked when there was nothing to do).... was just the random game next to the matrix game they had. i used to want to play this growing up so bad when i moved away but then i went and played back in 2015 when id be getting drunk at a buddies place and this shit just did not hit like it used to. just like alot of games they were great for their times just not anymore.
My parents were separated my mom never liked me playing M games but my dad didn’t care. Me and my brother were always excited to go to my dad’s house because that’s where the real games were at😂.This was one of the M rated games me and my older brother were playing around 2005-2006. We tried bringing it home mom seen us playing it and freaked when she seen me headshot a dude and his head came off. I had to be 7 or 8 at the time my brother was 10, good times man good times 😂. As a kid the game was so fun to me I tried playing it as an adult recently but you’re right it’s kinda repetitive. we had the ps2 version so we didn’t get to experience multiplayer unfortunately.
The game is fun for the time and I definitely look back with rose tinted glasses. The game does stand out as something that devs don't do anymore, they don't try new things. Games like State of Emergency, Chibi-Robo, Oddworld, and so many others are an extinct breed of strange but enjoyable concepts that devs today would never try to do.
Never played this but remember a full page ad of this box cover in a magazine when I was a kid and the image stuck with me for some reason. Sometimes I make that two guns pose in the mirror when doing a fit check lmfao but idk shit about this game and I didn’t even search this that’s crazy
From what I remember the PS2 version got a ton of marketing and the angle they were pushing was GTA III but with big-ass crowds and it was almost nothing like that. It was a lot more like Fighting Force if anything.
no lie i was just thinking about how much i loved this game yesterday but coudnt remember the title. i subscribed just because this coincidentally showed up in my suggestions lol
I was barely a teenager when State of Emergency came out on the Original XBOX, and this was a fucking blast playing this in Co-Op at my friend's house. This generation would never be able to handle this game 💯.
I played the Xbox version. I actually really love this game! I agree that Kaos mode is the better than Revolution mode and that the fixed time and last clone standing are a fucking blast!
Has Rockstar released a single game that wasn't just some attempt at recreating GTA, or some aspect of GTA? I'm not even upset about it, I'm genuinely curious.
I didn't even know this one existed. Seems I dodged a bullet cause for sure I would have fallen for the premise. Your words reminded me of The Warriors game. I recently played it and still holds up, you should try that one
This was effectively a overhyped tech demo. i have a lot of nostalgia for it because i played it so much back in the day but it was very shallow and repetitive. the only reason i finished it was because as a kid my options were very limited lol. but its nice to see someone review it because i dont think its very popular even to make videos on.
Great review, but you would get a lot more views if you change the name of the title. “Rockstar’s red headed step child.” Or Rockstar’s hidden Gem or something like that.
In San Andres there is two cheat codes that puts the game like stay of emergency One gives weapons to civilian And to other one made civilians attack everything you and each other
😆 🤣 only reason I still remember this game is because me being the weird kid I was I put a bunch of music on my original Xbox at the time and one of the songs was a gospel rap song 😆. So I'm playing this game while I'm listening to Christian gospel rap and my parents tell me to turn this game off haha
I owned the PS2 version but played the Xbox version belonging to a friend Your escortees were dumb as bricks making escort missions as frustrating as ever but it was fun, I'll never understand how the fun factor of a game series can go downhill so fast but State of Emergency 2 was the most disappointing game I played from that console generation
I wouldnt say its an outstanding game but I almost always only play in short bursts for like an hour tops while friends were over, ever since i got it like 15 years ago. I sat down and played it normally once and yeah I agree it was a drag after a bit, but its like a real arcade game in that manner, or candy. after a short but great hour or so, you are best to turn it off
Thank you for the sharing the memories and thanks for the recommendation. I had never played it before and Im always happy to at least say I played through a game.
We stayed on GTA3 all the time. Hearing about State of Emergency we were excited.. a game like GTA but it's all riots? Sounds awesome. Instead we ran around a mall smashing windows. We expected something different.
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The article on porting this game to Xbox is actually worth a read, very interesting info on the hardware differences with the PS2, and explains why the port took 8 months pretty well
I am 29. I can confirm I had SO much fun with this game. In no way would it be accepted today but in the early 2000’s it was so fun. And the big Spanish gang member was the funnest to use
Imagine a modern graphic remake of this game, lol. Obviously the fans would have to make it, but one can dream ;)
I'm the same age and I had this on PS2 back in 2002 I was 8, my mother got it for me not knowing what it was lol
He was mexican actually and he was short
Honestly I don’t see why. It didn’t stir up much controversy when people realized it was cartoony. Unless it deals with real life situations I don’t think it would be that bad. GTA and manhunt were much, much worse back then
Most fun*
Funnest isn’t a word….
I remember buying this game at Blockbuster for $20, still have it too. I had a lot of fun during the mall level but after that it got old really fast. Great video!
Agreed. It did get old fast after the mall.
I remember posting $80 in Australia
Was it free roam like gta or level based?
@ruffiianx5566 There were 4 levels but they were mini sandboxes.
I'll never forget my Dad's ex wife saying she was annoyed by watching us play that game where we just ran around a mall shooting shit 😂
Probably the reason for the divorce i guess😂😂😂 nd im not even hating bruh
I played the ps2 version as a kid so I've had the announcers voice stuck in my head for like 15+ years
Its a wild experience when a game announcer is telling you to commit various crimes for bonus points lol
Break windows for bonus score!
This game looks amazing. I never had an Xbox so I’m glad to find so many new great titles. This is like arcade GTA
I remember this
Great memories playing this with my older brother. To be a kid again man, where did the time go? Now I’m just an alcoholic, depressed adult 😂
yur not alone homie
welcome to the club
Same 👌🏿💯🥴
Yup🍻 🍾
Oh my god i remember this game! This had completely left my trail of thought. Crazy
I remember grabbing this game from blockbuster. The cover reeled me in, but at the time GTA was all the hype and this game didn't hold a candle to it back then. I revisited the game recently and it really is very fun in short spurts, would have been a real banger in an arcade cabinet.
It really does seem like an arcade title that got ported to consoles, doesn't it?
State of Emergency and Midnight Club were clearly Rockstar throwing out the concepts that they were building into GTA, seeing what worked and what didn't
@wintermute8853 lol try hard. Obviously I was referring to GTA3, and I quite clearly used the term 'concepts' so I would probably look that word up before leaping straight into 'online douche' mode
@@risingdawn5259 state of emergency came out after GTA 3
@wintermute8853I bet you're a fun guy
@wintermute8853 don't need to married I bet if you weren't so hateful you could be too champ
Back in the day when Rockstar used to release games other than gta or red dead. Or rather should I say back when Rockstar used to release games period :)
Btw, I would like to suggest you a fps licenced game : "Die hard Vendetta" which was in a way die hard 4 before the real die hard 4 (live free or die hard) was released in 2007. And is not canon anymore because funny enough both of them focus on John's daughter but she becomes a police officer in the game die hard vendetta and she's not in die hard 4 (2007)
One of my absolute favorite games, still own it and play it often
I remember this getting hype alongside Dynasty Warriors 2. "Putting as many objects onscreen at one time" was one of those technical hurdles that some devs really wanted to get over with the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, alongside "Making long hair look good on characters" and my personal fave, "Making great looking water." It's a shame then that VIS never did much with State of Emergency; I only played it for the first time a bit last year via a modded Xbox, but it definitely lacks substance. I know SOE2 was made but it doesn't push the same kind of gameplay by the looks of it, instead diverting from this stuff to do its own thing. It would be GREAT to see a modern version of this following the kind of design as Omega Force's action games; a lot of their stuff like Dragon Quest Heroes, Persona Strikers and Fate: Samurai Remnant do so much more with the "Musou style" battles against hordes and hordes of enemies, wielding that kind of action onto REALLY solid action-RPG cores. A modern State of Emergency done in a similar style to something like that would be fantastic to see nowadays. You just know a developer could absolutely nail some kind of great cartoony style like Paladins, Wildstar or Bleeding Edge; something like that.
Very enjoyable profile on this early Rockstar game!
I've never played it but recently bought for my beloved Xbox library. I appreciate your take on it my friend!
I played this on ps2 at an uncles house as a kid, it was fun enough and the concept was really cool to me at the time. I've never met anyone else that has played the game though.
Dude THANK YOU, I’ve never been able to remember the title of this game!!! I’ve tried to tell two of my buddies about this game to no avail because I couldn’t remember the name🤣 THANK YOU
Glad I could help!
I remember seeing this game advertised like crazy in every gaming mag at the time. By the time I actually got myself a PS2 in Jan 2002, GTA 3 was out and this game quickly faded into obscurity due to the middling reviews and insane amount of great titles coming out during that era.
Yeah there was definitely some crazy good titles on the PS2 that overshadowed SoE in 2002. Kingdom Hearts nd Vice City come to mind. Final Fantasy X was in 2001 but in December of that year so I'd say that overshadowed it. It was a great time for gaming!
I remember renting this from Hollywood Video for the PS2 back in the day.
That game box in the big plastic guard in best buy was mesmerizing for whatever reason. Big christmas 2003 vibes
I played this game on ps2 and holy hell the memories cutting off heads and blowing up stuff but i remember playing the second one and not having that much fun with it like the first one! Awesome review
Thanks! I'm glad I can bring back some good memories!
This game will always hold a special memory for me growing up, I somehow randomly clicked the right buttons to enter my first ever cheat code. I was suddenly punching off heads and that would lead to me buying so many cheat code books back then and renting everything, just to test out the cheats.
I remember buying so many of those little cheat books.
I have been waiting for someone to cover this hidden gem forever thank you!!
One of my favorite OGxbox games
That little squat guy with the bandana takes up space in my brain thanks to the constant adverts for this game. I never even played it!
Great review. Love going back to play games once beloved to see how they hold up. This is a perfect example of that. Even if it doesn’t hold up, mix in a lil nostalgia and i drink it all the same 😅
I remember seeing a copy of this at a vintage shop… it has a big sticker on it saying,
“ID will be asked before Purchasing”
Kinda adds to the mystique of the game to me. Like the “Parental Discretion is Advised” warning on CDs lol
I remember my friends back then (in elementary school) was saying this was a spin off Crazy Taxi game. I can see how it is similar.
Bro I've been trying to remember the name of this game for mad long. I'm glad you put a video about it out .
The guy on the front cover of this game was more of a father to me than my actual dad.
I remember this game men😂 aw damn good memories! me and my cousin's would go to my uncle room and borrow it from him to play on my xbox they dont make games like this no more if you played this back in the day and remember this game then you a OG gamer!
I’ve never seen this game in motion before until today. So thanks!
This is one of my favorite Rockstar games. I always hoped they would revive this one. In my mind, this was Rockstars "trifecta", GTA III, Max Payne, and State of Emergency!
My young self was in video game heaven 😂
I remember talking about this game with a kid in the first grade!
I hated this game when I got it for Christmas as a kid at 1st, but I picked it back up after about 3 weeks of not playing and played the hell out of it once I figured out what I was doing. I have fond memories of being up all night causing chaos.
You just unlocked a hidden memory
I remember this game but never played it, I might have to add it to the collection now
my parents were divorced, and every other weekend i'd go to my dads.. he had a new wife and i loved my step bro. i was around 8 or so when this game came out and my step bro was 9. i remember going there and he pulled this game out of his collection.. And man i was so jealous that he was allowed to play it. i grew up in a military home and my mom wouldn't let me play anything.. especially Xbox live and ps2 online. I told my step bro "I'd do anything to live here" He could watch scary movies and play GTA.. Then when i got older i realized that my dad and his mom were party people and it kind of shows how little they genuinely cared about my step bro by letting him play all these crazy games when he was in like 1st grade haha!! 2004 we were older and i dont think its the end of te world to let kids play Halo 2 online, But i sure as heck wouldn't let my kids play games like that unsupervised at that age. I cant lie tho i was eternally jealous that i couldnt play halo 2 with him everyday online. There was a magic in the air back then. I think because i was removed from being able to play every day, It made me appreciate the few days a month i could for way longer.. once i got into highschool and my mom kicked me out at 17 (She would only let me play an hour a night up until that point and that pissed me off so bad) And i went to go live with my dad where i could play for hours a day unsupervised, i got pretty bored of most video games, yet i still played.. but that magic moment i used to feel every game back then is felt few and far in between nowadays after spending 6 plus hours a day in college playing haha! State of emergency will forever flash me back to the best times
I used to always play as the dude that looked like tommy verceti from vice city. Like everyone else the mall level was my favorite. I couldnt even imagine a game getting by these days with this kind of content. I ask a lot of people around my age about this game if they are into gaming that is. And i always get a no. Its just me and my childhood friends that played it together that remember. I always thought that was weird due to it being a rockstar game. Great video though.
This was my favorite game on the ps2 upon release. It's so addictive!!!
Brilliant I also remember looking at countless games on shelf’s and this one stood out so much. I liked the art style and my mum just glared at me for even picking it up
This is one game I wanted to play when it came out. But never got around to playing. Might hunt down a copy & play in 2024.
I was super hyped for this game,but it seemed to take forever to come out. Having already played GTA3,it fell short,and personally I just couldn’t get into it. Still,a fun premise and I played it recently and enjoyed it,so it has value.
This and WWF Royal Rumble (Dreamcast) are my earliest memories of buyer's remorse. They just made me sick to my stomach with regret.
I remember renting this game and playing all weekend with my cousins. Good times.
"Tech demo" is the right word for it. This was not the follow-up to GTA3 that I was expecting, and while that might have been unfair, the game itself didn't feel very good until I unlocked the last character (the others felt weak and ineffective).
Thank you!
This game has echoed in my mind for a decade. I had no idea if it was even real or a dream.
I couldn't remember anything but the gameplay in the mall.
As a kid in the early 2000s with a ps2 i had to sneak to play because it was my dads. That game was the shit. Short missions are perfect for a kid who isn't allowed to play it. But parents with ps2s had to go to work at some time
i remember playing multiplayer on the XBOX version and my grandfather (RIP -2020), seen us playing and said "So this is what you guys consider entertainment? Jeez laweez."
I bought the PS2 version from KbToys. I had some fun playing it, but definitely not as good as GTA3 or especially Vice City. I miss the Rockstar who made single player focused games like this back in the day.
There was a sequel, but I think it was only released on PS2. I'd like to see a remaster or remake for the original.
Can't disagree with the scores or your review(which was excellent), I don't think I spent more than an hour solo, yet with friends it was always in rotation for a change of pace. I believe your "xbox upgrades" comment only cements a definite future Xbox exclusive upgrades vid in 2024! Thanks for a great channel and Happy New Year!
Thank you for the recommendation and the support! I totally agree on the Xbox upgrades, I have some I need to talk about. Happy New Year!
@@campxbox Gotta mention the fur textures for Crash Bandicoot and I have two racing recommendations if you are interested... Quantum Redshift and Mercedes World Racing(those graphics! trust me).
Quantum Redshift absolutely rocks! I've never tried Mercedes though so maybe I should get to that one soon.
I loved this game. Unlocked everything. Played it to death. I miss my youth. 😅
Same lol this game was great and addictive
Great channel bro. Love Xbox since day one
I still remember this so clearly. The world needs another State of Emergency, it's a good time for one.
I believe there were 2 but the second went far away from this game
Loved this game on PS2.
i actually liked going to my aunts house when my uncle had this game for ps2 lol (visiting fam sucked when there was nothing to do).... was just the random game next to the matrix game they had. i used to want to play this growing up so bad when i moved away but then i went and played back in 2015 when id be getting drunk at a buddies place and this shit just did not hit like it used to. just like alot of games they were great for their times just not anymore.
My parents were separated my mom never liked me playing M games but my dad didn’t care. Me and my brother were always excited to go to my dad’s house because that’s where the real games were at😂.This was one of the M rated games me and my older brother were playing around 2005-2006. We tried bringing it home mom seen us playing it and freaked when she seen me headshot a dude and his head came off. I had to be 7 or 8 at the time my brother was 10, good times man good times 😂. As a kid the game was so fun to me I tried playing it as an adult recently but you’re right it’s kinda repetitive. we had the ps2 version so we didn’t get to experience multiplayer unfortunately.
I played these as a kid and i definitely shouldnt have. Didnt know the story was that deep 😅 just loved blowing stuff up.
The game is fun for the time and I definitely look back with rose tinted glasses. The game does stand out as something that devs don't do anymore, they don't try new things. Games like State of Emergency, Chibi-Robo, Oddworld, and so many others are an extinct breed of strange but enjoyable concepts that devs today would never try to do.
I want them to bring this game back so much, great video
Im glad you enjoyed! Thank you for watching!
The gore was wild in this game!!
I was just thinking about this game days ago!! Shit, amazing you did this
I finally found how this game was called, I played it on my PS2 long ago.
I loved this game. Spent hours and hours playing this as a kid with my brothers.
Good memories
Never played this but remember a full page ad of this box cover in a magazine when I was a kid and the image stuck with me for some reason. Sometimes I make that two guns pose in the mirror when doing a fit check lmfao but idk shit about this game and I didn’t even search this that’s crazy
I always felt like the character on the cover was Big Pun.
I was old enough to remember playing but too young to understand how to play properly I don’t think I got past the 1st mall level
From what I remember the PS2 version got a ton of marketing and the angle they were pushing was GTA III but with big-ass crowds and it was almost nothing like that. It was a lot more like Fighting Force if anything.
It was one of those that we played at friends' houses when we were drunk.
no lie i was just thinking about how much i loved this game yesterday but coudnt remember the title. i subscribed just because this coincidentally showed up in my suggestions lol
Thank you for the sub! Im glad we can be on the same wavelength!
I was barely a teenager when State of Emergency came out on the Original XBOX, and this was a fucking blast playing this in Co-Op at my friend's house.
This generation would never be able to handle this game 💯.
I played the Xbox version. I actually really love this game! I agree that Kaos mode is the better than Revolution mode and that the fixed time and last clone standing are a fucking blast!
I remember this being so hyped up because it was "from the makers of GTA and max Payne " and getting bored with it after a week or so.
They really need to remaster/remake this game. Been a long time coming
I played this game a lot as a kid/teenager! I didn't know there was a sequel till today. Maybe I played it, but forgot.
I used to play SoE God knows how much. Will definitely revisit it. Shame the second one never came to our lovely green platform.
Has Rockstar released a single game that wasn't just some attempt at recreating GTA, or some aspect of GTA?
I'm not even upset about it, I'm genuinely curious.
😂😂me and my bro used to play this I loved the intro lmfao such a classic
I didn't even know this one existed. Seems I dodged a bullet cause for sure I would have fallen for the premise.
Your words reminded me of The Warriors game. I recently played it and still holds up, you should try that one
I forgot this game existed. Great times!
I use to watch my big brother play this on the PS2 great times ! I always wanted to play as the black Prisoner 😂
Plus that guy looks like quagmire in
The Hawaiian shirt.😂
This was effectively a overhyped tech demo. i have a lot of nostalgia for it because i played it so much back in the day but it was very shallow and repetitive. the only reason i finished it was because as a kid my options were very limited lol. but its nice to see someone review it because i dont think its very popular even to make videos on.
Great review, but you would get a lot more views if you change the name of the title. “Rockstar’s red headed step child.” Or Rockstar’s hidden Gem or something like that.
Thanks for the recommendation. I was thinking about giving my titles a little more than just a plain “review”
Aw man I loved this game I feel so old seeing it again lol so many good memories
I loved this game I forgot all about it played it for years wow awesome you reviwed it
This game was crazy I used to draw that symbol all the time as a kid
I loved this game on PS2 it’s like a better fighting force for PS1
I still have it in my collection but never really gave it the time it deserved.
Even back then, I had a backlog!
Rockstar had a riot simulation in The Warrior’s, I’d play a whole game of that
Would love to here more gameplay noise intercut between narration
Good suggestion thank you!
I had the game but never understood it playing it im 30 now and learning something new everyday is a understatement
Anybody noticed that guy is
Dressed like quagmire?😂
This is one of those rockstar games that I didn't "get" like Smugglers Run, it might just have been bad
In San Andres there is two cheat codes that puts the game like stay of emergency
One gives weapons to civilian
And to other one made civilians attack everything you and each other
Ive been waiting for years for them to put this game up for sell on the PS store. This game and Smugglers Run. Both great games from Rockstart.
emulation
😆 🤣 only reason I still remember this game is because me being the weird kid I was I put a bunch of music on my original Xbox at the time and one of the songs was a gospel rap song 😆. So I'm playing this game while I'm listening to Christian gospel rap and my parents tell me to turn this game off haha
I owned the PS2 version but played the Xbox version belonging to a friend Your escortees were dumb as bricks making escort missions as frustrating as ever but it was fun, I'll never understand how the fun factor of a game series can go downhill so fast but State of Emergency 2 was the most disappointing game I played from that console generation
To be honest I didn't even realize this game had a sequel until researching information on this game. Seems like it flew way under the radar.
I wouldnt say its an outstanding game but I almost always only play in short bursts for like an hour tops while friends were over, ever since i got it like 15 years ago. I sat down and played it normally once and yeah I agree it was a drag after a bit, but its like a real arcade game in that manner, or candy. after a short but great hour or so, you are best to turn it off
Thank you for the sharing the memories and thanks for the recommendation. I had never played it before and Im always happy to at least say I played through a game.
We stayed on GTA3 all the time. Hearing about State of Emergency we were excited.. a game like GTA but it's all riots? Sounds awesome. Instead we ran around a mall smashing windows. We expected something different.
I like playing Last Clone Standing.
I had no idea this game had a story. I only remember beating the shit out of people for hours with a bunch of weapons haha.
Only game I remember seeing with a CHECK ID stickeron it haha.