Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror

released on Nov 18, 2003

Originally picked up by Infogrames but later published by Encore, Fugitive Hunter is a realistic first-person shooter from the same team responsible for X-Files: Resist of Serve and Black Dawn. Set in modern day, War on Terror allows players to travel to locales such as Afghanistan, Utah, Paris, and Miami, as they follow a criminal trail that leads all the way to the Al-Kaeda madman Osama Bin Laden. Features include an extensive behind-the-scenes library of videos, a third-person hand-to-hand mini-game, and 11 different terrorist leaders to hunt down including Bin Laden himself. Available exclusively for the PlayStation 2.


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I paid nothing for this and at first assumed it was a game based on one of those cop shows, but once I realised it was a game about the American fear of the early 2000s I bought it immediately.

The idea of the game is absurd but plausible, and it probably sold more in the US from people who love their country.

In reality, to me, someone who grew up in the UK and was braindead when this game released, and only having heard about early 2000s US politics through shows like Family Guy, this game sucks and has no value to it, especially 20 years later.

It's a novelty game now, a product of its time.
The game throws you in right away with no tutorial, and I had to blindly figure out the controls.
I had no idea how to reload, no idea how much ammo I had, and I ended up just running to the end shooting aimlessly.

At the end of the level is a fighting section that's very poorly designed.
The opponent blocks your attacks as often as he can, so hitting him does nothing most of the time.
When you block, you're basically just stuck because he'll just keep hitting you if you stop blocking, and he manages to remove most of your health at once, and you can't block while he hits you.

This is on easy.

Such a hilarious time capsule from the early 2000s. It isn't super fun but it works pretty consistently and is short and quick paced enough to not be a bother. Just watch a video on it instesd of playing unless you are really starved for a poor man's perfect dark

This is quite possibly one of the funniest "Of the time" games that could ever exist. I don't get how people can call this really a terrible game or worthy of being one of the "worst ever", it's really not that bad of a game, just doesn't play very well in general. I don't think you can play a game where you fist fight Osama Bin Laden as the final boss and not have fun.