Wow - Im reallt amazed that Spy Hunter hasnt been posted more as a top game.
Maybe people didnt get to play it in the arcades?
Maybe do not have a wheel and pedal set + 2way shifter to
play it with...
The game gets pretty hard after a few minutes into play. Lots of fast action... lots of weapons in you disposal if you can keep alive.
Heres an interesting tip I found when trying to play with my partially working machine - (pedal is being rebuilt - so i had to just turn the gas pot up to a decent speed and leave it there - no slowing down!)
You can kill the Switchblade cars with your guns if they are in front of you... but if you do not have Oil, or Smoke, what can you do to kill them ?
Well, you know that if their blades arnt out - you can ram them hard on the sides to run them off the road... but...
If blades are out: If you time it just right, as they creep up behind you - and try to pass you... ram just the very front part of thier car. If you do it correctly, thier blades will not harm you as you are too far forward - but - thier car will fly! : ) Make sure you are close enough to the side of the road so that they do not come back for more ; )
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To bump cars- make sure you are the one who bumps first... else you may be flying off the road. Also, make sure that you really slam the wheel fast and hard twords them... else the bump will nt be strong enough to push them off the road. The slam has to be so hard - that it makes you wonder if you arnt going to break the wheel : ) heh
Spyhunters wheel has heavy duty rubber stoppers - that hold up to extreme abuse without flinching. Also, they are dual trigger grips - simular to disc of tron sticks - but mounted to the wheel. This allows easy steering and quick control of 4 weapons at one time:
Machine Guns: standard. do not run out
Oil: create slicks to make cars wipeout
Smoke Screen: wipeout huge area of cars.
Missiles - Take the helicopter out of the sky.
Special things...
There is small path in the road that you can go to once in a while - it looks like a house at the end of it. Thats the Boathouse... where you actually change into a boat!
Your oil changes into a flaming path of oil on the water!
Missiles and smoke still operate the same.
The enemies drop explosive drums into the water.. hard to dodge as control in the water is a bit slower.
There are exits to shore every so often. The boat stage is wicked hard - so try to exit asap! : )
There is an Icy road stage... where the control is slowed as well.
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to stay alive long... you need to be in high gear, but, travel at low speeds in that gear. If you really punch it - you will end up crashing too easily. However... if you see an impending accident about to happen... you can let off the gas quickly, and sometimes you will slow down low gear speeds - thus just bouncing off a pedestrian car rather than exploding from crashing into it.
btw - if you didnt know... you have to drive into the large red 'weapons van' to pick up a new weapon. If you look on top of the weapons van, you will see a small picture of the weaon that you are about to get. If you alreay have that weapon - it will refill it, as they do run out with several uses.
Oil: about 10 small slicks (let off the button quicker for smaller slicks - too small and wont be effective tho)
Smoke: About 3 blast if memmory serves me right.
Missiles - 3 missiles
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To take the helicopter out - just make sure that you are vertically aligned with it before releaseing missiles. Be carefull of his bombs that will create nasty holes in the road - or your car! : )
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