Jet Set Radio Future 2002

Is it still worth playing?

Smilebit's 2002 action game for the Xbox, the sequel to Jet Set Radio. You control members of the GGs, a youth street gang that uses inline skates to move through a futuristic Tokyo, spraying graffiti, challenging rival gangs and evading authorities, in cel shaded visuals. It is a third person action game set in open urban environments, where you perform tricks while tagging graffiti to claim territory and progress through the districts. In story mode you overwrite graffiti left by rival gangs while avoiding interruption from enemies and police. Graffiti uses multiple spray targets that scale with the size of the tag, and tagging objectives have no time limits. Rival gangs trigger combat encounters you clear to progress, in the open environments and not in isolated arenas. Flow is still a bigger goal than the clock, with skating, tricks and tagging in one run.