Beverly Hills Cop (PS2) | The Worst Garbage I've Ever Played
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- I decided to review a game that most people have never heard of and even fewer have actually played. This is the trash fire known as Beverly Hills Cop on PS2.
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I'm sure some of you are wondering why I bothered to make a dedicated video for this irrelevant crap when there are so many other games I could cover. Well...have you ever just needed to kill something?
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if you mentioned escape from butcher bay in the video the video automatically becomes great
I prefer beverly hills cop over shrek anyday!!!
The second best thing about this game is that I never played it, the best thing about this game is that I will never play it. :)
Wait a minute... They got the movie license to the game but they couldn't get the likeness of Eddie Murphy? The Early Signs of failures that you will see happen..
OK, let me provide a little more backstory to this, since I not only live in a PAL region, but did in fact play through this game to completion (I'm writing this before I've seen the end of the video, so I'm looking forward to your comments on the final helicopter battle, because OH BOY!).
You mentioned the developer, but not the publisher, who I'd argue is significantly more important here - that would be Blast Entertainment, also known as simply Blast!, which was formed in 2006 specifically to finance and publish licensed games, something it did a LOT in the three years it was around (since it shut down in 2009). It published over 30 of these terrible licensed games for the PS2, based largely on whatever cheap licenses it could get its hands on. Beverly Hills Cop is not only one of the more recognisable licenses it was able to grab, it was also one of the earliest - I believe it's the 5th game (of 9!) they published in 2006.
One of the most recognisable aspects of Blast! games (aside from being terrible) is the fact they're also very small - almost every single game they published was under 700MBs, so had to be produced on CDs rather than DVDs, like most PS2 games were by this point. General rule of thumb is that if the game came out post 2005 and the disc is blue rather than silver, the game on it is going to suck (though as many people keep pointing out to me, there are obviously exceptions to this!). Speaking of, if you can push yourself to finish them, you'll find the games are also remarkably short... which makes sense.
Other globally recognisable licenses they grabbed were Home Alone, An American Tail, Jumanji, Xena: Warrior Princess, Charlotte's Web and most interestingly for this video, Dr Dolittle (also based on an Eddie Murphey movie, and also not featuring his likeness!). There was also a bunch of stuff that probably isn't recognised outside of the UK - stuff like Captain Scarlet or Postman Pat.
Finally, let's talk a bit about some of the developers they worked with, because boy, are there some stories to tell there!
- Atomic Planet, as you mentioned, have produced a couple of 'collections': the Mega Man Anniversary Collection and Taito Legends 1 & 2, to be exact. Their self-developed games are... very poor quality by comparison, mostly revolving around licensed titles that sucked.
- Data Design Interactive are infamous for having developed Ninjabread Man and its... well, basically its reskins. If you're into bad games from the mid to late 2000s, you've heard of them. Unsurprisingly, their games for Blast! are ALSO basically reskins, which explains why they're so lame.
- The Code Monkeys only made two games for Blast!, but their legacy went on - as well as making the infamous terrible The Simpsons Skateboarding, they would also collaborate with Dingo Pictures to produce all those awful Disney rip-off PS2 'games' that are largely taken up by stunningly bad cartoons with the odd jigsaw or card-matching minigames. Yeah. THOSE ones.
EDIT: I've been informed (by the new owners of Dingo Pictures talking about it on Twitter) that they actually didn't have the proper rights to use the cartoons. Which... well, shouldn't actually surprise anyone. Thanks to Mr Teton who brought this to my attention!
- Broadsword Interactive didn't make many of their own games, mainly being a porting studio. They DID, however, create Robin Hood's Quest for the PS2, which... was featured on Worst Games Ever, and for damn good reason.
There isn't too much info on the other developers who worked with Blast!, but what little I did find wasn't particularly positive. One of them developed Smarties: Meltdown, widely considered one of the worst PS2 games to be released in Europe, so... there's that.
Anyway, that's enough of me rambling on. Hope this was of some entertainment value to whoever reads this!
I'VE PLAYED DR. DOLITTLE, I KNEW I'VE SEEN THAT LOGO BEFORE! At first I thought they published Driv3r (I actually like that game) but nope!
This comment is very impressive and you should be proud.
I think all early PS2 games were blue discs. Not in 2006 though, lol.
Only exception to that CD rule is the early ps2 titles that were on cd's instead of DVD's. Games like the crazy taxi port, ring of red, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and a few others I am not mentioning.
how deep does the rabbit hole go.......
"I once Marathoned Ride To Hell."
You did WHAT.
He streamed himself playing the entire game in one go on twitch, collecting donations for St. Jude's hospital. He raised $1000
Yep I remember it very well, I was there for most of it, quite the interesting game.
That game is great for a good laugh and some super easy achievements if you're an achievement hunter. That's it.
@@CErra310More people should play shitty games for charity!
One bad thing, does a good!
I played this game constantly as a kid. It might not have been 100% faithful to the movies but it was lots of fun! The crouching trick was genius and this definitely set the bar for future shoot 'em ups. You can actually see some inspiration for _Red Dead Redemption_ in this game! It was awesome!
-- Nobody. *Ever.*
Such a simple joke made me cry laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
holy shit this comment was a fun one
Almost got me there xD
You had us in first half
It’s like this game takes place in that one Rick & Morty episode where Jerry is trapped in a simulation that’s only running on 10% power
"This is Earth Radio. And now, here's some human music."
@@Xander_P.G.K *Shitty MIDI file of Axel F starts playing*
@@MrSkerpentine "Hmm, human music. I like it."
*snaps fingers* “Yes!”
@@user-by2dz6oj6b"My Man!"
Funfact:
On the Cutting Room Floor, people cracked open the game files:
THERE ARE 30 LEVEL SLOTS.
THIS GAME COULD HAVE BEEN 30 LEVELS LONG.
As there's generic names (Level X) For levels 7 to 30.
This confuses me a bit. Like, what, were they working in some sort of engine that has 30 level slots by default? Those extra 24 slots don’t seem like the kind of thing to just already be there and just get left unused, you know what I mean? You’d think a slot would exist because someone decided to make it.
30 possible levels of torture? No thank you!
The picture of 'Axel' head in hands , would go perfectly side by side with the Silver Surfer game over screen
"Interactive War-Crime"
I will be adopting this phrase from now on thank you Craig
All war crimes are interactive. That's inherent to war crimes.
@@commanderkeen3787 That's so totally besides the point
@@commanderkeen3787 great man. You dissected the joke. We all know you’re smart now.
Couldn't be a better way to describe it
Dude you totally missed the Banana in the tailpipe opportunity at 15:15 - most famous line of that whole series, total missed opportunity :P
Ah, Axel Foley, that silent, bald white dude we all know & love.
Mr Cleeeean, Mr Cleeeean!
@@ChaseMC215 Lmaoooooooo
When I saw this in my sub box my literal first reaction was “Craig is covering the 9/11 of video games?”
Beverly hills cop false flagged the country to steal more power from the working class and implement AI and invasion tactics into normal society while simultaneously killing and blaming brown people?
@@christiano5109 Not all Arabs are "brown"
@@StevefromPR what ive learned from american policies is if you're not rich, your brown.
@@christiano5109 yo Socrates it’s a fucking youtube video about a shitty game chill
I was actually hired to do graphics for a mobile phone game around the same time this came out. I didn't know about this PS2 game. But yeah I was told I had to draw Axel as a white guy in black leather jacket to avoid any similarity to Murphy whatsoever (so why were they making a Beverly HIlls Cop game? I guess they really wanted to squeeze some money out of the license they somehow obtained). I did it cos I was broke and needed money to move out of a hostel I was living in. The game was never released anyways and they came back to me to reskin the game for the marvel film Elektra but then updated me saying they weren't taking on freelancers anymore. I actually do have some of the assets from when I did the pixel art back then and I was given an early demo of the game from before it was cancelled. It's... kinda enjoyable if very brief but it's certainly nothing to do with Beverly Hills Cop whatsoever. :P
Hey man, im very interested in this data… especially Elektra. Do you still have it
I've heard about this game thanks to Tennings but i didn't expect you to put yourself through this game like damn you need a Hug!
Along with his phoenix games videos. Let's get craig to play those next and Little Britan
Tennings is cool, wish he released more vifs
@@Guitar-Dog well he did recently
*Other games* : god-mode
*Beverly Hills Cop PS2* : crouch button
12:24 "Your cover is blown... and the heat is on."
Nice one.
Your “cover” is blown and the heat is on
I remember hearing rumors about this game being made back when I was in high school.
To be exact, it was in early-2005.; I was in the second semester of my Freshman year of high school, at the time & hoped it would be released in the U.S.A. in record time because I was so excited.
I thought to myself "So long as they stay true to the source material & don't screw anything up, I might want to check this game out because I'm a big fan of 'Beverly Hills Cop 2' & 'Beverly Hills Cop'.".
After watching this review, I can say "Thank goodness this piece of garbage wasn't made available in the U.S.A., after all!..." with great pride.
You forgot about the 3rd one
Dude....you really took one for the team here, respect.
FWIW, your suffering really made for an excellent video, so thank you.
"There are no bad ideas only executions"-someone I don't know
The easiest exploit is actually the warlock of firetop mountain on the ds, where you can access any locked containers by going into YOUR INVENTORY and selecting the ground bag icon. Saved me from literally the worst lock picking mini game ever devised
A few more great games that came out in 2006:
- Final Fantasy XII
- Rainbow Six Vegas
- Scarface: The World is Yours
- Flatout 2
- Kingdom Hearts II (Well, for NA/EU at least)
- Just Cause
- Elite Beat Agents
- Company of Heroes
- NFS Carbon
- Lego Star Wars II
- calls out the developer and not the shitty publisher Blast -
me: >:(
"we better make him bald, he looks way too much like Eddie Murphy" 👨🦲
Poor 8-Ball. No wonder his hands were all messed up.
PAL shovelware is such an odd, interesting world to me.
E.T.: I’m the worst game every made!
Beverly Hills cop: that’s cute!
Bad boys was pretty bad too
ET isn't the worst, for a game made in like 6 weeks, i'm surprised it turned out as good as it did... well at least for an atari games since most if not all are trash.
@@matthewbraith0411 ET is the worst and was the straw on the camel's back that almost killed the videogame industry before Mario saved it.
@@w.davidholland7228 While ET didn't help the industry and certainly *contributed* to the crash, the crash was coming no matter what, for one, ET is just the fall guy. Two, I've played ET. It isn't even remotely close to the worst game on the Atari 2600. It *should* be, considering the circumstances of its development, but Howard Scott Warshaw was kind of some sort of fuckin' technowizard and got it to be... tolerable... again, by Atari 2600 standards.
E.T is a good adventure game for its time, and the crash happened because of retail glut. Shops ordered too many copies of many popular games to the point they became bargain bin fodder quicker than the speed of sound.
The Punisher was by far the greatest movie licensed game ever
Nah, Scarface.
*Goldeneye intensifies*
Spider-Man 2 for thePs2/Og Xbox
@@ouroldhouse3674 that’s different. Scarface, godfather, the warriors, etc. are games based on classic movies so I mean of the licensed tie-in games for current movies
@@lucidlocomotive2014 Oh okay
Do a review on Desperate Housewives: The Game next!
IT EXISTS?
If you’ve seen Tennings, you’ll know about this game. Giant Bomb’s video on it is great, too
Your suffering brings me joy, so hey that wasn't in vain at least
My gaming nightmare was playing Alone in the Dark 2008... That is all.
It played better on Xbox 360
@@papoopse100 I'm not sure what it is that happened to you, but I need you to understand that doesn't excuse the person you've become.
@@edgelordleon5859 😂😂😂😭
@@papoopse100 Actually it played the best on the PS3
@@superdrinkingpepsi I feel sorry for anyone who ever interacted with you after that fact.
My 2 gaming nightmares were playing Halo 3 on Legendary back in the day and playing vanilla Ninja Gaiden 2.
11:22 Seriously, if GTA V were in PS1 times, this would have been a cut screen. Looks insanely derivative of V.😆
Oh my god, BLAST, the people who did the fuckin awful Home Alone game, and, a personal trauma, an UNGODLY BAD Mr Bean game that cursed me as a child.
I miss Ryan Davis. God rest his soul
Who?
@@marbl3d45 He's from Giant Bomb
Fun fact: the lead designer of this game is the same guy behind the atrocity that is Daemon Summoner.
Tennings is crying in fear right now
@@ChaseMC215 yeah his review of it is hilarious. Also the Joueur du Grenier review.
The game Axel looks like Vic Vance from Vice City Stories only crap. And that was a PSP game that ironically came out the same year as this and looks 100000 times better.
This should've been released on Easter so the video title could've been "The Passion of Craig"
The deadly premonition whistling makes this 10X better
This looks like a game from 1997 that was made in 1994
So this was the PS2game you were talking about. Finally i know and can sleep again
I would say this strikes me as something made by two high schoolers in their mother's basement as their first ever project using a computer, but that would be an insult to janky but loveable flash games that are worth more than this disaster. How was this sold for money?
You can see on the player model, there’s a skin tone difference between the forehead and where hair should be, I think some kind of coding or loading error is causing the hair on the model to not load correctly, thus why he’s bald
The 9/11 of video games was probably Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing! Or Fallout 76.
Big Rigs is 100x better than this and Fallout 76 is pretty good now, but still buggy.
@@DCGMatthew1 (X) Doubt
@@Xander_P.G.K I own all three of those games, Big Rigs is definitely better and more fun than Beverly Hills Cop and I was playing Fallout 76 today, started playing it a few days ago thinking I would still hate it but it's pretty fun now.
@@DCGMatthew1
How? _How_ is "YOU'RE WINNER !" more fun than this? Because you can reach the speed of light in reverse gear?
This is not sarcasm, I legitimately want to know. What you just said has confused the fuck outta me. 😵
@@DinnerForkTongue Because Big Rigs at least is fun with how bad it is, Beverly Hills Cop is only pain.
Seems like Axel got AXED
So if you're critical nobody and this is the worst game you've ever played then would it legitimately be "the worst game nobody's ever played"?
You would be Tennings
@@ChaseMC215 😂😂😂
For me, the best movie-licensed game I ever played is still Spider-Man 2, for the 2004 film. That game was actually a huge inspiration for the 2018 Insomniac Spider-Man game.
This game needs a modding redemption.
Change the model to Eddie Murphy
And we have ourselves a game.
A pity Murphy for some reason lost his iconic laugh, it always bothered me, as his 80's and early 90's movies growing up was some of my all time favorite and it was so infectious
He deliberately got rid of it because he hated it, which is a shame, because while it was always goofy, I don't think anybody laughed *at* it, it just added to his genuine charm and, like you said, was very infectious.
I absolutely love your game reviews, keep it up man!
5:51 what a great usage of Clowns farting on the basement. Really brings the point across, lol
19:57 had me rolling on the ground laughing, amazing stuff lmao
My worst gaming nightmare,when I lost all my progress on kane and lynch.
OH I MEAN BEST
8:33 you dared me dude here's a list of a bunch of extremely terrible FPS games that I can remember in no particular order:
1) Jurassic: The Hunted
2) Soldier of Fortune: Payback
3) Chaser
4) E.T Armies
5) Psychotoxic
6) Battleship
I left out a few since they feel like easy targets that everyone knows like Rogue Warrior, Rambo: The Video Game, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Haze, Daikatana on the N64. Needless to say there's a lot of other shitty FPS games I could have mentioned, hope you'll cover some of these pieces of shit in the future because I derive pleasure from your suffering :)
most of these are just simply average or mediocre
also i actually liked chaser
@@pchtommy1268 Rambo sucked
I remember when Tennings covered this shitty game lol
Haha ! I bought a copy from the bargain bin - Emphasis there on BIN from the local games & video store ? - We had got a PS2 for my grandaughter and was hunting in the store for some games for a 6 year old girl ? ....That was when I saw this ? - Beverly Hills Cop! - Wow I thought ? What did I miss - The game - Used of course but box looked in good nick ? - So I bought it - thought I would dust my old PS2 down give it a go ? -At that price ! - Nothing to loose !
But I totally agree with every thing you say ! - I Paid £0.49p for this piece of cr*p
£0.49p and I still think I was robbed ?
Great video fella -Thanks for sharing ! S.B British Isles
So long as there is sneaking, Critical Nobody will play through it no matter how bad it is.
I also have played this game and still own it, on a few different occasions I tried to beat it, I never could, but it would never save and it just got worse as I went on. I hate this game and wish I could forget it, it is worse than Big Rigs. It is THE WORST game in the world. It isn't even anything like Beverly Hills Cop.
As an Australian, I have a bunch of PAL region only games that are God awful, way too many of them.
Is it as bad as Superman for N64?
@@RohannvanRensburg I'd maybe even say worse.
I honor your sacrifice with laughter.
More videos like this please
Its been so long i dont see a recent Beverly Hills Cop PS2 video, this is probably the best one.
EVERY bug in the game always occur, that thing you thought Billy got soft locked, that always happens.
The publisher of this game Blast! was like the European PS2 LJN, they published alot of crappy licensed games.
They a British company ?
@@THEPUNISHERBRAZIL yes they are a bri'ish LJN
Ty for knowing what the OK hand gesture means
It only does IF you have no clue that YES it was taken over as some idiotic white supremacist thing that they do...Its also a FACT that it started out on 4chan as trolling them to see IF they were stupid enough to believe it was a real thing and YES the white supremacists literally fell for it and still to this day use it as a white supremacist thing...
I get that some people don't pay enough attention to shit to actually know things but NO its not something that SJWs made up......
@@lutherheggs451 it means 666 and it means Osiris King or OK lol thousands of years it's meant those 2 things
@Critical Nobody Everyone’s talking about the MGS retrospective, but I‘m rather wondering what you think of the thief franchise. Any chance that we‘ll get to see that one time?
5:45 PepsiMan, is that you?
"Interactive warcrime"
*Blackwater on 360 would like to have a word with you*
As well as Spec Ops: The Line lol
I finished high school in 2006. Shaker High School class of 2006.
Hi, so I started to watch or rather listen to your videos recently while running my errands and they are pretty, damn good. Keep up the good work, mate!
Craig....please do more bad game reviews I loved your analogies!
*That is NOT the "OK" hand gesture.* That is the "Six Six Six" hand gesture and it explains why such trash got professional treatment as a product.
This game & the Bad Boys game must be related 🤣 that goofy ass 👌🏽 from Agent Mr. DIESEL is killing me!
My thoughts exactly, like twins who can only be told apart by their ugly ass parents 😑
Hey, man, I know you're probably not going to read this, but there's this really cool indie game that's trying to be like a Splinter Cell demake coming out soon and I figured I'd recommend it to you. It's called Intravenous. I think it's only on Steam at the moment, though.
The handgun sounds like a star wars sound effect
I love these types of video, documentary about shitty games
Lol Charlie’s angles at the beginning 😂 I used to love that game
Eddie Murphy's character model *DEFINITIVELY* appearing to be White makes the O-K hand gesture even weirder from a 2020s retrospective.
18:26 never thought I’d see Sir Topham Hat from Thomas the Tank Engine in a strip club
Ironically this show just how fantastic 2006 was for games.
Im not going to lie 007 has to be one of the best cross overs
Fun Fact, The Guy Game had to be recalled because one of the girls in it lied about her age and showed her chest without informing the makers that she was under 18, its considered a rare game
I had no idea this game even existed.😂
The era of make that old film a game in the greatest era of gaming ever.
So now onto the Butcher Bay/Dark Athena video?
Ultimate Oddjob 😂😂
i respect you for putting both Dead Rising and Saints Row on that 2006 games list
“Jesus Christ it’s spreading!!”
Paused the video, mid-laugh, to subscribe lmao. Thanks for the content mate. I’m gonna check out more
Going to The Fart Market, you need anything?
Funny thing is that this gane have "Load Game" on the main menu...
Even tho you can't save in the middle of the game? and there's no checkpoints
It probably saves between levels.
I thought you edited the video when he moved his hands from the cpu to his head @ 6:04 kind of scaring looking 😂
This may be the best video I've ever seen on CZcams.
How about your thoughts on:
Cold War
Velvet Assassin
Death To Spies
Death To Spies: Moment Of Truth
16:26 “I unloaded into the asshole...”
- critical nobody
I didn’t know demo reels could be distributed as final games
There's Dr. Dolittle PS2 game and it also didn't have Eddie Murphy likeness and replaced with generic white dude with Willy Wonka outfit
13:30 Those shadow people look like they're straight out of Silent Hill for the PS1, and speaking of that I would have 100% believed you if you said this was released on PS1.
Goldeneye .... You're Goddamn right there are exceptions.
I can't believe this came out in the same year as the masterpiece that is Mother 3
And Godfather the game
and Scarface the world is yours
Dang man I was watching some old gmod videos of you tomato and some others it's crazy to see how well you're doing like 7 years later
Having to go back for evidence is actually pretty smart. If you've watched the third movie, then you'll understand
I laugh for the entire video!! ROFL.. as bad as it is. Your banter are totally GOLD
Yo in it’s defense , THE WARRIORS game is GREAT!!! And that franchise was from the 1970s!!!
Hell yes I still play that game every now and then.
Between this and that Home Alone game JonTron talked about, what on earth was happening in the pal regions during the PS2 era?