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Bad Boys II: Miami Takedown (GameCube)

Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett of the Tactical Narcotics Team are back and oh so bad. Featuring all the fast pace and all-out action of the movie, its your job to ensure that these TNT cops are not DOA! Somewhere on the streets of Miami, something is going down which must be stopped. What are YOU gonna do? Play as either Mike or Marcus in 1st or 3rd person viewpoints. Each character has their own personalities and characteristics. Features 15 stages of fast paced, all-action gameplay, with gameplay featuring multiple mission objectives. Includes Bad Boy rating system, where you are rewarded for your actions and achievements. Play the perfect cop or be a Bad Boy! Includes a large variety of weapons, and fully destructible environments to enhance immersion. Changing play styles add variety and gameplay. Use the quick aiming and shooting Action mode, and search for clues and evidence using Explore mode. [Empire Interactive]

Empire Interactive
First-Person Action, Third-Person Action
Players: 1
M (Mature)
Developer: Blitz Games
Released September 21, 2004

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

35 / 100

Critic Reviews

50	Game Informer The levels are linear and dull, and for some reason you can only take cover in specified circles in the environment, which takes away any sense of reality or spontaneity. [Dec 2004, p.168]
50	Next Level Gaming There's two cops, Mike and Marcus. Where's the two player simultaneous co-op mode?
47	Worth Playing For non-gaming dorks out there looking for some amusement in this title, the sonic aspects of it are where it's at.
40	Times Online Fine in short blasts for anyone looking for some mindless tension-busting target practice. However, those seeking something that challenges the grey stuff will need to look elsewhere.
38	Nintendo Power Only hard-core fans of the Bad Boys movies will find redeeming value in the game. [Nov 2004, p.130]
36	IGN There's a lot of utterly stupid crap in Bad Boys: Miami Takedown, and yet it's kind of enjoyable in an "I love watching car wrecks" kind of way.
30	GameSpot One of the worst action games of the last 10 years.
29	Gamer's Hell It isn’t the worst game ever made, but that just means that it fails to achieve distinction even by its badness.
25	Warcry A truly incomprehensible final product. This game, although given the title Bad Boys, and perhaps living up to the vulgarity and profanity of the movies, does nothing to quell the hunger for explosion, action, wit, or anything that the movies may have given me in an equal amount of time. What a waste.
20	Stuff The only tantalizing thing about Takedown is our warning to stay the hell away.
20	G4 TV It looks appalling, contains some absolutely egregious gameplay, and subjects the player to some downright execrable dialogue. Whatever it is, Bad Boys is nowhere near good.