Stuntman Ignition review for PS3

Stuntman Ignition pitches you as the driving stuntman performing spectacular feats in the movies. Starting working on low budget UK affairs, you obviously aim to work your way up the chain. Stuntman Ignition gives you more than just cars to play with, with hovercraft and bikes to hack around on. Stuntman Ignition looks great on the PS3 and is brilliant fun, as long as you don't mind your games to be a real challenge. Find out the ups and downs of Stuntman Ignition by reading our review in this issue.

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Stuntman Ignition review for PS3

Stuntman: Ignition is a throwback to a time when men were men and games were so hard that they weren't ever meant to be completed. Sure, it has concessions to the modern era (a five-strikes-and-you're-out system replacing the original's punishing approach of failing you for a single error), but this is still old-school tough stuff. Starting out as a rookie stuntman, you're soon called up by a British director to do some daredevil driving for a Dante's Peak-esque disaster pic. Rather than easing you into proceedings, this opener is as tricky an introduction to a game as we can remember. After the shout of ‘action', you need to speed through the movie set, performing stunts according to the helmer's bellowed directions. So you might be called to scrape the door of an oncoming car, before drifting round a sharp bend, leaping over some liquid hot magma, and squeezing under a falling tree as you land. This might not seem too hard, but often the directions come in so late that you need to have ninja-like reactions to hit the stunt markers.