The Italian Job (released in Europe and Australia as The Italian Job: L.A. Heist) is a racingvideo game released in 2003 developed by Climax Brighton and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is based on the 2003 film of the same name. The game features a story mode based on the movie and a multiplayer mode where the player drives Minis through several different circuits in Hollywood and LA. The Windows version was planned, but was cancelled.
The Italian Job is a racing game based on the 2003 film. Players drive vehicles around Hollywood and Los Angeles, earning points for completing small tasks. There are 15 missions in the story mode. Each is designed to reflect a certain part of the movie, with the spoken introduction to each 'section' giving background on what part of the movie is being covered, and what the objective of the mission is going to be. The game's four other modes include racing around tracks, performing stunts for points, free roam, and time trials.
The game was developed to be in the same game style as the classic PlayStation Driver games because of the limitations they had during development having no licence for the actors of the movie.
The Italian Job received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregatorMetacritic.[3][4][5]Electronic Gaming Monthly's G. Ford was positive; although acknowledging that the game could be finished within a few days and offered nothing original, the easy and responsive controls, "neat stunts", "cool" story, and "impressive" visuals (particularly the cars and environments), made the experience worthwhile.[7] The magazine's Greg S., however, panned the experience as a set of "boring, repetitive, and annoying missions", made worse by a useless radar system.[7]
Maxim gave it a score of five out of ten and said, "The ordinary race-and-chaser’s loosely knit compilation of repetitive Mini Cooper showdowns has a recognizable scene or two, but that’s about it."[21]
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources The Italian Job 2003 video game news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2014 Learn how and when to remove this message The Italian Job released in Europe and Australia as The Italian Job L A Heist is a racing video game released in 2003 developed by Climax Brighton and published by Eidos Interactive The game is based on the 2003 film of the same name The game features a story mode based on the movie and a multiplayer mode where the player drives Minis through several different circuits in Hollywood and LA The Windows version was planned but was cancelled The Italian JobDeveloper s Climax BrightonPublisher s Eidos InteractiveProducer s Nicolas RodriguezDesigner s Serkan HassanProgrammer s Balor KnightArtist s Vassos ShiarlisPlatform s PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCubeReleaseNA 24 June 2003 PS2 Xbox NA 15 July 2003 GCN EU 12 September 2003AU 19 September 2003 1 2 Genre s RacingMode s Single player multiplayer Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Reception 3 References 4 External linksGameplay editThe Italian Job is a racing game based on the 2003 film Players drive vehicles around Hollywood and Los Angeles earning points for completing small tasks There are 15 missions in the story mode Each is designed to reflect a certain part of the movie with the spoken introduction to each section giving background on what part of the movie is being covered and what the objective of the mission is going to be The game s four other modes include racing around tracks performing stunts for points free roam and time trials The game was developed to be in the same game style as the classic PlayStation Driver games because of the limitations they had during development having no licence for the actors of the movie Reception editReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScoreMetacritic GC 56 100 3 PS2 55 100 4 Xbox 54 100 5 Review scoresPublicationScoreEdge5 10 6 Electronic Gaming Monthly14 30 7 Game Informer5 10 8 9 10 GamePro nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 11 GameRevolutionC 12 GameSpot4 4 10 13 GameSpy nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 14 GameZone Xbox 7 1 10 15 PS2 5 10 16 IGN6 8 10 17 Nintendo Power2 9 5 18 Official U S PlayStation Magazine nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Official Xbox Magazine US 7 8 10 20 Maxim5 10 21 The Italian Job received mixed or average reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic 3 4 5 Electronic Gaming Monthly s G Ford was positive although acknowledging that the game could be finished within a few days and offered nothing original the easy and responsive controls neat stunts cool story and impressive visuals particularly the cars and environments made the experience worthwhile 7 The magazine s Greg S however panned the experience as a set of boring repetitive and annoying missions made worse by a useless radar system 7 Maxim gave it a score of five out of ten and said The ordinary race and chaser s loosely knit compilation of repetitive Mini Cooper showdowns has a recognizable scene or two but that s about it 21 References edit The Italian Job Atari Australia Archived from the original on May 11 2004 Retrieved April 7 2024 The Italian Job Atari Australia Archived from the original on May 17 2004 Retrieved April 7 2024 a b The Italian Job for GameCube Reviews Metacritic Retrieved 2014 02 12 a b The Italian Job for PlayStation 2 Reviews Metacritic Retrieved 2014 02 12 a b The Italian Job for Xbox Reviews Metacritic Retrieved 2014 02 12 Edge staff October 2003 The Italian Job Edge No 128 p 101 a b c EGM Staff September 2003 The Italian Job Xbox Electronic Gaming Monthly No 171 p 121 Archived from the original on 2004 01 01 Retrieved 2014 02 12 The Italian Job PS2 Game Informer No 124 August 2003 p 91 The Italian Job Xbox Game Informer No 124 August 2003 p 98 Helgeson Matt August 2003 The Italian Job GC Game Informer No 124 p 93 Archived from the original on 2003 09 19 Retrieved 2014 02 12 Fennec Fox 2003 07 08 The Italian Job Review for Xbox on GamePro com GamePro Archived from the original on 2005 02 08 Retrieved 2014 02 12 Dodson Joe July 2003 The Italian Job Review Game Revolution Retrieved 2014 02 12 Gerstmann Jeff 2003 06 30 The Italian Job Review GameSpot Retrieved 2014 02 12 Pavlacka Adam 2003 07 06 GameSpy The Italian Job GameSpy Retrieved 2014 02 12 Knutson Michael 2003 07 27 The Italian Job XB Review GameZone Archived from the original on 2008 10 16 Retrieved 2014 02 12 Watkins Rob 2003 07 28 The Italian Job PS2 Review GameZone Archived from the original on 2008 02 05 Retrieved 2014 02 12 Robinson Jon 2003 06 24 The Italian Job IGN Retrieved 2014 02 12 The Italian Job Nintendo Power Vol 172 September 2003 p 137 Davison John September 2003 The Italian Job PS2 Official U S PlayStation Magazine p 97 Archived from the original on 2004 05 25 Retrieved 2014 02 12 The Italian Job Official Xbox Magazine September 2003 p 81 a b Boyce Ryan 2003 06 25 The Italian Job Maxim Archived from the original on 2014 03 06 Retrieved 2014 11 29 External links editThe Italian Job at MobyGames Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Italian Job 2003 video game amp oldid 1217746863, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
