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State of Emergency is the ultimate in antisocial anarchy-similar to the way Loaded on the PlayStation gleefully broke all the rules with a coy smile. As one of five citizens under the oppressive heel of a sinister government controlled by big business, you must single-handedly make things right in four different locales and several missions. Playing from a behind-the-thug view, your tasks read like "Revolution for Dummies": escort and protect hackers, destroy buildings, and assassinate high-ranking officials. In addition to your fists, there's a nice and sometimes gruesome variety of weapons, including baseball bats, machine guns, and even severed heads.
State's most noteworthy element is the visual presentation. Accompanied by a striking audio track, the screen is completely packed with riot-like activity-gang bangers, citizens, Corporation officers (the bad guys), and frenzied crowds that react to explosions and gunfire. Some of the details, though, have been skimped on, such as the featureless citizens.
Yet the game's play engine wears thin too soon. Missions grow tiresome from their own repetition, and the four locales lack visual and structural diversity. The controls, though, remain firm throughout, although constantly having to manually change the camera angle can become wearisome. Despite its quickly worn welcome State of Emergency's worth a play if you're in the mood to inflict some serious virtual mass destruction. It's also the kind of game you'll truly enjoy if you've ever been wrongly awarded a speeding ticket, victimized by the IRS, or told to stop running by a mall cop.

This game is one of the funniest and most enjoyable game I've played on PS2 (even though I'm slightly new in the PS2 world). Besides Grand Theft Auto 3 and Devil May Cry, State of Emergency is the only game I have so far. Now, for the pros and cons:

PROS- cartoonish/realistic violence, alot of blod and gore (more then GTA3), alot of weapons, nice colorful graphics, beat a whole horde of ATO guards and gangs coming at you easily (sometimes!), easy controls (it took me 10 seconds to master them), nice cheat codes (hehe), to playable modes "Revolution" and "Chaos", if guards see you with a weapon, they're after you, rivalling gangs fight each other and sometimes with the guards and by having 4 maps you have to unlock brings the determination to finish mission.

CONS- Maps are way too small (they're tiny!), no innocents fight back even if you bash and punch them (like in GTA3), guards only look for YOU and do not hunt and kill rioters or innocents (the Corporation guards are supposed to be evil, aren't they?), camera system frustrating, sometimes you don't hit your target in close combat and it wastes time, the game gets too repeatative and it gets boring FAST and the AI is not to good in the game, and the game is uninspired.

Anyway, I do believe this game deserves a 5, because its a nice and good game with alot of violence and killing. But unfortunately the killing is only done by you 95% of the time, and the rioters don't do much but run around like idiots. The way I see it, they are the prey for killing, and its fun to hack and slash them and more fun against a horde of enemies. The axe could slice heads off at once if the enemies stand next to eachother... So as you may already know, its not for kids (at least not under the age of 11 in my opinion). But I recommend this game, and it deserves a chance to played by everyone.

Rockstar was the king of the moment with their huge success with Grand Theft Auto 3 for the Playstation 2. People were hoping for the same quality game when they heard about State of Emergency...

Unfortunatly, the quality was alot less...

Instead of a realistic cartoon world of violence, State of Emergency gave people a horrible anime cheap arcade game. To compare this game to Grand Theft Auto is to compare need for speed with crazy taxi.

Sure a game like Crazy Taxi is fun, but after 5 minutes you realize how cheap the game is and how repetative it becomes. The same is true for State of Emergency.

Graphics=2
Sound and music=2
Control=3.75
Fun Factor=3.5
Replay value=3

Total=2.85

You might not regret owning it for about 5 dollars. I feel bad for the people who paid full price.

Don't they test and play games before they sell them??? geez!