Atari

Game Description:  Racing games are typically sorted into one of two categories: simulation racers or arcade racers. Apex could easily fit into both categories. It breaks so many traditional driving game rules that it almost qualifies as its own genre. Unlike most racing games Apex has elements of role playing game progression: your in-game persona improves as you achieve success on the track.

The racing genre has traditionally been one of the more staid and basic genres of videogames. Going from track to track, players work on buying new cars, upgrading the cars they already have and winning various competitions. It's a system that pretty much ignores the emotive and narrative aspects of videogames, usually concentrating on gameplay and graphics above all else. Apex, the new driving game being marketed under Infogrames' Atari label, represents an attempted step in a promising new direction for the driving genre by offering up more than just driving.

It's a nice idea—put the player in the movie. But movies are a passive experience. I felt like my time was wasted—the levels themselves were so frustrating that this delayed reward added injury to insult.

According to the ESRB, this game contains: Mild Lyrics, Violence

Game Description: Have you always wanted to be in the movies? Now you can, as a steel-nerved stuntman on the search for fame and fortune behind the scenes of Hollywood blockbusters. From the masterminds behind the popular Driven video game comes Stuntman, an action-packed thrill-ride through the streets and across the back lots of Hollywood. Rise from rookie driver to hero of the silver screen. Do you have what it takes? In the world of stunt driving, fear is failure. One slip and your silver screen dreams are over. The higher you climb, the higher the stakes. Grip the wheel, hit the gas, chase the glory.