![]() ![]() ![]() The moment you start the game, you are surprised with chaos, parody news broadcasts, and a surprisingly awesome rock theme song on the menu, which is covered in American flags and SWAT guys with guns, like an 80s satire flick mixed with a non-satire copganda flick. ![]() ![]() The fact this was the first game made by Rocksteady, the creators of the later Batman Arkham series, and also a sort-of reboot for a messy Tomb Raider rip from half a decade ago that tosses out the Satan wizard concept for mass hockey mask firebombing terrorism in a post 9/11 America makes it even stranger. We saw a lot of weird stuff getting wide attention in those days, especially on the PS2, so only in this era would something like Urban Chaos: Riot Response ever happen and get sold as a serious competitor and not as a niche b-game. Genre crossing was just becoming a practice, and online gaming was finally becoming possible to sell to a wider audience besides RPG nerds on PC. We were finally figuring out 3D and how old genres could excel in this new style, but the monolith franchises that rule the industry today weren’t fully built yet, leading to a massive flood of games trying to get whatever audience or niche they good by throwing anything and everything at the wall with a significant budget behind them. ![]()
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