Platform: Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Vita and PC
Genre: Objective Seeking, Point gathering, Timed, Trick chaining, Incline Skate, Racing and advoid the enemy
Online Interaction: Leaderboards
Story: You are the gang called the GG's, being in Tokyo-To, a place where skaters and graffiti artist roam, you are trying to grow your gang and paint the town GG. With a total of 3 rival gangs, you must spray their turfs and in the end, tag them with your own insignia to show the town who are the dominate gang. Though everything changed when one of the leaders drops a piece of a mysterious record that everyone has thought to be a myth.
Jet Set Radio is one of those games who ideas sound a bit weird for a video game but made to work out... except when the police send tanks to residential areas and Apache helicopters to crowded city squares . Though this is one of those games you'll want to come back to every once and a while to hear the phenomenal music and simple yet fitting graphic styles of it's cell shading [I like to tease my friend cause when I put it on he can't stop watching due to the cartoon style graphics, colour and catchy music]. This game has a rather simple objective, spray paint over the rival gangs graffiti with your own, the problem is the more you cover the more the police will try to get you. After a couple of those you will then face the gang itself where you must label their backs with your logo, basically saying "you're ours now". And due to this part being more of a twist I cannot reveal the part after you beat them all but it does step the game up a bit. The music is catchy, the characters are well thought up for their short cutscenes and voice dialogs and overall differ in little ways which you can almost distinguish as something more when playing them. Now the graffiti, there are collectables to get so you can obtain more but there's a custom graffiti maker which is hard to control with a controller let alone a keyboard trying to be a controller. There is a way through a Jet Set Radio Graffiti Manager you can use any image as a tag but I haven't gone and tried this, apparently you can use any kind of picture as spray paint, kind of neat.
Rating: 90/100
Reason: This games music and mechanics have aged VERY well, this game is fun to play, watch and listen to so there's almost no reason you should buy this and enjoy a great game that had a console that died a big early. The reason for the 90 and not 100 score is because when you beat the game, you can then only have 3 new modes to play and be able to choose all the unlockable characters you obtained. It pretty much just resets the campaign and keeps your scores, characters and graffiti you obtained. Sure I play it over again but with repetition that great, kind of have only the secret characters to unlock, collect all the graffiti types and get the high scores on all the stages. After the first two campaign runs this would be more of a "I need something good to play".
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