Metal Gear meets GTA in Robocop's future? - Headhunter (Dreamcast)

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  • @scottnotpilgrim
    @scottnotpilgrim 4 роки тому +168

    The newscast seems to be less and less satirical as time passes

  • @AllfonsoNRG
    @AllfonsoNRG 4 роки тому +53

    The story development in this game is awesome
    Mission 1: Investigate an homicide
    Final mission: Save the world.

  • @ufofighter16
    @ufofighter16 4 роки тому +62

    I don't think I've ever seen a game that's just "boot it up and Immediate self-aware 4th wall break wink at camera satire" before even getting to the main menu

  • @scottyawesomesauce467
    @scottyawesomesauce467 4 роки тому +46

    "Why not just guns." Because then you can't harvest the organs, duh! :)

  • @Yuli_Ban
    @Yuli_Ban 4 роки тому +67

    Aw dude, this game is just _overflowing_ with the Y2K aesthetic. All those futuristic fonts, the small goggle glasses, the kinda-Matrix look to everything, the post-vaporwave techno backgrounds, trying to be so ridiculously cyberpunk despite the flipphones and boyband haircuts...

    • @cloudtx
      @cloudtx 4 роки тому +6

      Nothing wrong with boy band haircuts!

    • @NucleaRaptor
      @NucleaRaptor 4 роки тому +4

      I see you're a man of vaporwave as well.

    • @Yuli_Ban
      @Yuli_Ban 3 роки тому +4

      @@NucleaRaptor The way I see it, vaporwave and Y2K are basically two halves of the decade. Vaporwave being late 80s/early 90s and Y2K (or cyber-vaporwave) being the late 90s/early 2000s.

    • @Bubba__Sawyer
      @Bubba__Sawyer 3 роки тому

      @@cloudtx It's rude to nitpick insignificant parts of people's posts.
      Respond to the overall point of a post or don't bother.

    • @cloudtx
      @cloudtx 3 роки тому +3

      @@Bubba__Sawyer I wasn't rude in the slightest. I reply to posts how I like and you do the same ok?

  • @hairy_cornflake
    @hairy_cornflake 4 роки тому +33

    One Hell of an underrated little gem.

  • @GenerationWest
    @GenerationWest 4 роки тому +82

    Man, look at this late 90's/early 2000's slab of beef of a man, like 80% of the white dudes I knew had that haircut or the bowl cut equivalent.
    The opening, if done straight, could be a news story now and I would wholeheartedly believe it, except for the guns part.
    8:00 (The Man Who Sold The World plays) "Jake, it has been 9 years."

  • @Cordusofthefez
    @Cordusofthefez 4 роки тому +30

    I didn't know that Jay Bauman was a videogame protagonist

  • @SinHurr
    @SinHurr 4 роки тому +54

    Yes motorcycles don't have a reverse, so you have to waddle backwards with your feet.

  • @chaffXgrenade
    @chaffXgrenade 4 роки тому +19

    Jack looks like Jake from "Ride To Hell" but with [relatively more] normal body proportions

    • @dansmoothback9644
      @dansmoothback9644 4 роки тому +2

      I was gonna say the same thing! His hands are slightly smaller thank catcher's mits

  • @natewesselink
    @natewesselink 4 роки тому +20

    Matt, motorcycles dont have reverse, they have your legs

  • @GoThemeParks
    @GoThemeParks 4 роки тому +52

    I think Adam Jensen is related to this guy.

  • @emmychansuper
    @emmychansuper 4 роки тому +5

    The picture you there isn't from Mario 3 (on the lady's computer screen), but rather a Swedish kids show that aired in the 70's:
    "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter" which basically means "5 ants are more than 4 elephants".
    Really good spotting there!!
    Amuse is also a Swedish gaming developer.

  • @jonsmythe1685
    @jonsmythe1685 4 роки тому +19

    I have to vicariously play the game through you Matt, so yes, I would like to see more.

  • @shards-of-glass-man
    @shards-of-glass-man 4 роки тому +8

    Still remember the first time I watched Game Center CX and they just blasted the Headhunter theme like it was nothing, giving me a strong case of "wait no that's illegal"

  • @ChairmanKiryu
    @ChairmanKiryu 4 роки тому +14

    There´s a game I remember fondly. Never knew it was on the Dreamcast. I played it on the PS2.

  • @OneJamalWonder
    @OneJamalWonder 4 роки тому +19

    I was thinking the same thing about the gas station. Like why is this place full of Resident Evil puzzles

  • @sambeasley444
    @sambeasley444 4 роки тому +4

    it's like a robo cop and starship troopers influenced winback/RE/GTA with light hints of MGS and omicron

    • @litjellyfish
      @litjellyfish Рік тому

      You summed it up so beautifully. That was exactly our influences.

  • @fonzylopez5806
    @fonzylopez5806 4 роки тому +6

    This is paul veorhoven the game.

  • @DexmexBala
    @DexmexBala 4 роки тому +5

    Finally you got around to this forgotten underrated dreamcast classic this game brought some of the mechanics that we see in every Gta type of game.

  • @akaimizu1
    @akaimizu1 4 роки тому +7

    Ahh Headhunter. The game with one of the best, by far, travel songs in the genre. This soundtrack was done by Richard Jacques, of SEGA fame. The same person who did the Sonic R soundtrack, did some music for Jet Set Radio, and was responsible for many of the songs in Metropolis Street Racer before the series became Project Gotham Racing, with Microsoft, and more and more music tracks were from different bands. He may have had a hand in a few songs in PGR1, but his talent is his ability to do many genres of music. A very versatile guy and quite fast in terms of delivering original tunes. Headhunter is one of his first forays, in Videogames, where he began to really flex his orchestral chops compared to his more electronic sound of past titles. Still, even here, you see him mix his orchestral with electronic instruments, particularly flaunted in this game's travel theme.

    • @keeperxiii
      @keeperxiii 4 роки тому +2

      Man, the travel music in this game made really it feel like a blockbuster. I remember thinking it was a real step into the next generation at the time. It's really effective and memorable.

    • @NucleaRaptor
      @NucleaRaptor 4 роки тому

      I always keep ragging on the impossibly generic faux-Hollywood orchestra that are infesting current year AAA games, but Headhunter was just early enough into 6th gen when these types of scores were just coming into vogue and still sounded fresh and exciting. I'm a big fan of Jacques' work on Sanic and MSR, but Headhunter is his magnum opus for sure. *Jack's Theme* alone is a top contender for the GOAT VGM hall of fame.

  • @Slonitram
    @Slonitram 4 роки тому +42

    Why does the main character look like the guy from Ride to Hell: Retribution?

    • @ChupaMiVerga96
      @ChupaMiVerga96 4 роки тому +10

      Same face and little bangs, all he's missing is the mullet and the giant manimal paws

    • @silverroddo1468
      @silverroddo1468 4 роки тому +4

      I was looking for this comment. This game shoulda been called: Hunt to Hell

  • @forcystusapollo1656
    @forcystusapollo1656 4 роки тому +3

    This is one of my fav games on the Dreamcast!

  • @jmsebastianhasvideogametho6063
    @jmsebastianhasvideogametho6063 4 роки тому +22

    The moment Matt starts driving the motorcycle and immediately runs into a wall really made me laugh out loud. Truly excellent.

    • @goldendevereaux
      @goldendevereaux 4 роки тому +3

      The driving is this is BADDDD. Mastering it is like awakening something within you

    • @TheCheeseMovesSideways
      @TheCheeseMovesSideways Рік тому +2

      ​@@goldendevereauxthe damn wheelies man, the damn wheelies

  • @IamTheManWithNoName
    @IamTheManWithNoName 4 роки тому +2

    "Get fucked sir" Matt's last words to his boss when he left Eidos.

  • @Stushcinta
    @Stushcinta 4 роки тому +2

    Headhunter's soundtrack deserved a better game (And i legit sorta like headhunter but man, those bits where you ride the bike to get enough XP to do the next mission fucking suck)

    • @Stushcinta
      @Stushcinta 4 роки тому

      The game really does go fun places though so i'd reccomend playing more but if you can get like some kind of gameshark code or something to give yourself extra skillpoints that'd be the way to go.

  • @OrfinMusik
    @OrfinMusik 4 роки тому +2

    No reverse on a motorcycle you put it in neutral and walk it back flintstones style so yea it does take that long

  • @shadyrecords4386
    @shadyrecords4386 4 роки тому +6

    Srly i played that game on my dc when it came out and i was like "holy shit.. thats the best looking game ever"

  • @rockyradical
    @rockyradical 4 роки тому +5

    This was one of my DC favorites, and I think you could easily do a full series. There's the Greywolf fight, the Ramirez fight, the bomb defusal, the Aquadome arena, the Angela/ship level, and the game leads up to a Resident Evil mansion sequence complete with it's own Tyrant knockoff.
    Don't play Redemption though. It's just...ugh...

  • @HereIam123
    @HereIam123 4 роки тому +19

    When are you going to finish Path of Neo you coward?! This game was pretty sick to watch though, thanks, lol.

  • @professorBofFPU
    @professorBofFPU 4 роки тому +9

    This is weird because Jack Wade is the name of Joe Don Baker's character from Goldeneye, so now I'm imagining this game but you play as Joe Don Baker.

    • @CJJC
      @CJJC 4 роки тому +1

      You guys watch Joe Don Baker movies?

    • @professorBofFPU
      @professorBofFPU 4 роки тому +1

      @@CJJC Just saying, I would buy a Mitchell open world adventure game tomorrow. Think LA Noire, but if your main character needed a beer and/or a nap every 20 minutes.

    • @litjellyfish
      @litjellyfish Рік тому +2

      Yes I don’t know how we come up with the name. Must have been lying there subconsciously. Even more odd is no one at SEGA or the testers reacted to it. I mean worst case we could have had a legal issue with it

  • @rohankishibeandpinkdarkboy8853
    @rohankishibeandpinkdarkboy8853 4 роки тому +8

    Hell yeah, I wanna see more of this.
    This game looks so weird, like it seems like a well made game, but it's kind of carbon copying games that came before but not in downright terrible way. It seems like a well made put together game.

  • @dycebastion
    @dycebastion 4 роки тому +9

    I loved this until the mission where you have to race around the city deactivating bombs on a timer and it’s frogging impossible. Months I spent on that mission

  • @benhillman8384
    @benhillman8384 4 роки тому +2

    Holy cow those fmv sequences are megarace tier hilarious.

    • @Sean-ch4hf
      @Sean-ch4hf 4 роки тому

      Holy hell i forgot that game existed.

  • @Stphor
    @Stphor 4 роки тому +4

    i had this when i was a wee lad but i was too much of a dumb babby to figure it out pls play more i need to know

  • @RazorFringe2
    @RazorFringe2 4 роки тому +13

    Still have nightmares about those AAA motorcycle tests...

    • @danharp7273
      @danharp7273 4 роки тому

      The motorcycle was a pain, until you just gamed the system. There was one long stretch of road that was straight and you could just ride on the shoulder or sidewalk at top speed and rack of the points. If you tried to do it legitimately it was really hard and not fun.

    • @goldendevereaux
      @goldendevereaux 4 роки тому +2

      @@danharp7273 the sewage drains I used to grind the points

  • @EduardoLuna120291
    @EduardoLuna120291 4 роки тому +1

    Now I gotta get myself a copy and play through MGS's unknown but real cool step-cousin.

  • @clintkarklus5523
    @clintkarklus5523 4 роки тому +2

    I remember Winback! I played it in a friends basement on his N64. Has anyone played the sequel? Winback: The Poseidon Kerfuffle... I'd wager on the possibility of some interesting flophouse content somewhere in that game. At least for those like myself that love obscure and failed franchises. The sequel to Headhunter is another one that most never knew and also has little representation on youtube.

    • @zekegonzalez1845
      @zekegonzalez1845 4 роки тому

      He should do video on it. I never got the chance to play the games though. I should have bought the Ps2 version when I had the chance. I used to have a Gamepro mag with game ad and review on it which I read to death! But yeah! Haha.

  • @thinkingsoup6149
    @thinkingsoup6149 4 роки тому +1

    The only thing I can say about the tone of this game can be summarized by two words (AKA one of the bosses in Headhunter):
    Cyber Cowboy.

  • @Marsson90
    @Marsson90 4 роки тому +5

    You are totally playing as Billy Mitchell with an even cheesier haircut.

  • @pariah076
    @pariah076 4 роки тому +1

    How is this game so awesome? Those first four minutes alone were absolute gold! I want more. MOAR!!!!!

  • @fonzylopez5806
    @fonzylopez5806 4 роки тому +2

    Amuze. I know what youre thinking. These guys mustah just made headhunter and thats it and thats why we dont know them. But they have a vast library of titles youd be surprised by. Theres headhunter....and also headhunter redemption.

  • @genghishank1
    @genghishank1 4 роки тому +5

    I would love to see more headhunter, and the even more bizarre headhunter: redemption. Both games give me immense nostalgic feels for many wasted hours in high school

  • @connorm.anderton363
    @connorm.anderton363 Рік тому

    I'm re-playing the game now, having experienced it first in September 2021, and am absolutely loving it, from the atmosphere, style, snappy combat, music, details for the time, familiar satire of a not-so-impossible dystopian futuristic situation, entertaining but slightly hammy story to the mission structure and Leila tests. While it's a shame that it hasn't been ported to modern systems and that there will probably never be a third or fourth game in the series, it's great that people are coming to it years later!

  • @BadgerCommander
    @BadgerCommander 4 роки тому +12

    I loved this game to bits - sadly the second one is just not as enticing

    • @genghishank1
      @genghishank1 4 роки тому +4

      I actually loved headhunter: redemption. I can’t explain why either, the storyline is weak and the controls are awkward, but I played it to death

  • @ahelmstub1142
    @ahelmstub1142 4 роки тому +3

    This is incredible

  • @fuzzypinkpickle
    @fuzzypinkpickle 4 роки тому +1

    Matt we need a FULL playthrough

  • @RedeemerBlade
    @RedeemerBlade 3 роки тому +1

    I had this game back in the day. It reminded me of those straight to DVD sci fi movies they usually showed on the Syfy channel on the weekends.

  • @tombombadilofficial
    @tombombadilofficial Рік тому +1

    8:11 this dude was gigachad before gigachad even became a thing.

    • @litjellyfish
      @litjellyfish Рік тому

      Never thought about it but you are right

  • @tobiaslofi
    @tobiaslofi Рік тому

    This was so fun to watch you getting confused and then drawn into it. Headhunter is my favorite game. It’s like a spy-novel-satire in game-form. It’s loooong too. And well worth playing.

  • @peachflavored
    @peachflavored 4 роки тому +5

    Oh, this game gets very Resident Evilish by the end...🤣 Now try Headhunter Redemption while you’re at it.

  • @Rymdpandan
    @Rymdpandan 3 роки тому +1

    23:08 The picture on her screen is from the intro to a Swedish kids' show called "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter", had to look it up and it turns out the developers are Swedish, so I guess they put it in there as a funny little easter egg. Definitely made me do a double take when I saw it there.

  • @GamingwiththeReaper
    @GamingwiththeReaper 4 роки тому +4

    I loved this game, i thought the cover system was so realistic.

  • @KonkeyVG
    @KonkeyVG 4 роки тому +1

    It's wild how unbelievable and silly that opening news broadcast was yet it's still more realistic than the live action opening to MGS4

  • @flippedoutkyrii
    @flippedoutkyrii 4 роки тому +7

    I'd honestly love to see this rereleased in some way. It was one of the many games that made me wish I asked for one for Christmas as a kid ;)

  • @ChanceTM
    @ChanceTM 4 роки тому +6

    Future predicted? 😂

  • @andrewamp1
    @andrewamp1 4 роки тому +8

    Duuuude I played this game so much, but it wasn't easy at all to 100% it, I think I never did, anyways I loved it.

    • @l03
      @l03 4 роки тому

      this game is awesome!
      the second one, not so much

  • @SullySadface
    @SullySadface 4 роки тому +12

    Huh. Didn't know there was a Fox News game.
    Also, Gabe Logan is the other not solid Snake dude you were thinking of
    Shoutouts to Casio

  • @PierreC71
    @PierreC71 4 роки тому +1

    Love this game. BTW, the bike is a 99 Yamaha R1

  • @TheSocialGamer
    @TheSocialGamer 2 роки тому

    I do indeed know about WinBack on the N64, 3rd person action game with stealth and duck behind cover mechanic

  • @casavilla458
    @casavilla458 4 роки тому +1

    Some motorbikes I don't believe have a reverse you have to move them manually that's make it slower

  • @razvanbigiu2912
    @razvanbigiu2912 3 роки тому

    I love how the newscast changes its name from "All you want to know" in the beginning to "All you NEED to know" at the end. XD

  • @goldendevereaux
    @goldendevereaux 4 роки тому

    I’m so glad you’re playing this. This game is great, and so under appreciated. I’m glad it got a sequel, but haven’t gotten around to play it.

  • @strobohobo
    @strobohobo 4 роки тому +1

    Jack Wade was the name of the CIA agent in Goldeneye.

  • @HerecomestheCalavera
    @HerecomestheCalavera Рік тому

    Headhunter is an amazing Dreamcast game. I imported it back in the day and loved it. It is still fun to play nowadays but you really had to play it when it was somewhat current to truly appreciate it.

  • @PapaGeorgio82
    @PapaGeorgio82 4 роки тому +1

    I would like more of the headhuntering with the awkward shooting and pre-GTA3 motorcyle driving and the mediocre rivals.

  • @dethcrimsonx
    @dethcrimsonx Рік тому

    One of my favorite dreamcast game. I remember going to ncsx to import it. Still have my original copy.

  • @Liglerian
    @Liglerian 4 роки тому

    26:52 BEST EPIC suspenseful music for doing nothing hahaha!! WinBack's multiplayer death matches were some of the funniest things. My friends and I would be laughing so hard, after just 10 minutes of playing, that we'd be crying. 😂 😂 😂 😂

  • @keijy6524
    @keijy6524 4 роки тому

    "Get fucked, Sir!" has me bursting out laughing for some reason.

  • @danharp7273
    @danharp7273 4 роки тому +1

    I assume he's playing on an emulator, because while the game was always a bit weird I don't remember it being too difficult to play on the controller. The motorcycle though was always tough. Headhunter was an awesome Dreamcast game, so I'd like to see more.

  • @activatewindows
    @activatewindows 4 роки тому +1

    This game is actually really impressive.

  • @illogicalbobcat8365
    @illogicalbobcat8365 Рік тому

    I remember playing this game on PS2 at some point almost 20 years ago. I enjoyed it but never felt compelled to play it again.

  • @poc-preserverofculture718
    @poc-preserverofculture718 4 роки тому

    I probably played this around 2004. Quite a blast from the past.

  • @Bobson_Dugnutt_Esq
    @Bobson_Dugnutt_Esq 4 роки тому +1

    Yo this satire is on point

  • @mbuledawg
    @mbuledawg 4 роки тому

    Nice! I remember I had to mod my Dreamcast to even play this back in the day.

  • @shsrpr
    @shsrpr Рік тому

    32:43 Yes, please, sir, may I have another?

  • @YosefASelim
    @YosefASelim 4 роки тому

    Ah, I absolutely love this game, and the main theme music is magnificent!

  • @conyo985
    @conyo985 4 роки тому

    That intro was great! That was so Robocop!

  • @gabrielcormier2096
    @gabrielcormier2096 4 роки тому

    Keep the weird train a rollin’! This is early 2000s gold!

  • @makkusanzetto1988
    @makkusanzetto1988 4 роки тому +1

    The music in this game is awesome action music.

  • @Winlaw459
    @Winlaw459 4 роки тому +1

    Why do i remember renting this at hollywood video for the ps2 for it not to work and waste my week of rental ?-_-

  • @Twingamingx
    @Twingamingx 4 роки тому +2

    Yo matt you have to play draconus cult of the wyrm!

  • @SpeedcoreJihad
    @SpeedcoreJihad 4 роки тому

    @ 1:48 min that are German Cops from mid ´90
    u can see that by their Uniforms
    xxD Cheers

  • @texastoast7514
    @texastoast7514 4 роки тому +1

    I've heard of headhunter but only the second one which i thought was the first which i thought was the only one. Looks interesting.

  • @dachandepred
    @dachandepred 4 роки тому +1

    yes matt its that slow. to reverse on a motorcycle your literally walk backwards.

  • @kylereese811
    @kylereese811 4 роки тому +1

    The main character looks like fpsrussia

  • @saimysilvia
    @saimysilvia 4 роки тому

    Yeah i hear the high pitch noise too and then a pop. Look at the RTX on the wooden floor...

  • @sohail4287
    @sohail4287 4 роки тому

    Been looking for this game for years!! Thanks

  • @RockManXxX
    @RockManXxX 4 роки тому +1

    Game audio is super low compared to Matt`s voice for some reason.

  • @toxicavenger64
    @toxicavenger64 4 роки тому

    Totally forgot about this game, I used to play it so much. Damn!

  • @liseeeeeeey
    @liseeeeeeey 4 роки тому

    I played this probably 5 years ago with my ex on the PS2. I thought it was a weird game but loved the news cutscenes. Never got to finish it and I had no idea about the sequel.

  • @SinHurr
    @SinHurr 4 роки тому +4

    This game holds a special place as being one of like 3 games that my best friend was better at than me.

  • @daveKoRnfan
    @daveKoRnfan 4 роки тому

    If I had this back in 01 on my Dreamcast this would have blown my mind lol super ambitious for its time and those fmv's are the perfect amount of cheese with genuine world building

  • @koteshima6682
    @koteshima6682 4 роки тому

    yes more of this please

  • @Valcidious
    @Valcidious 3 роки тому

    "get fucked sir" was way funnier to me than it should have been

  • @rickdaniel7341
    @rickdaniel7341 4 роки тому

    The ENP firearms sounds like something the bad guys from Policenauts could have used.

  • @sephi.
    @sephi. 4 роки тому

    The dude looks like Billy Mitchell with Raziel's hair, I just can't take anything seriously looking at that face

  • @Guts1991
    @Guts1991 4 роки тому +1

    Of course we remember Operation Winback! You should make a let’s play of it sometime. Played it a ton on the N64, but I never finished it. And do a full playthrough of Hybrid Heaven while you’re at it *wink*

  • @UltimateAlric
    @UltimateAlric 4 роки тому

    I remember Winback and will confess to loving it.

  • @CaptainMike500
    @CaptainMike500 4 роки тому +1

    Loved this game on PS2! Went back to it a few years ago, controls aged poorly but still a really cool game.