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Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio in the United States), is a video game released by Smilebit on 1 November 2000. Jet Set Radio was designed for the Sega Dreamcast, although versions were later released for Game Boy Advance and Xbox.

Game History

Jet Set Radio was announced at the Tokyo Game Show in 1999 and generated a prodigious amount of press attention due to its use of the now-common 3D rendering technique, cel-shading, which was considered cutting edge at the time. Cel-shading allows for a "cartoon-like" appearance of rendered objects. Jet Set Radio was released in Japan on 29 June 2000.

The US release, Jet Grind Radio, contained an addition of two new maps and various new songs and other in game content. This version also allowed the user to connect to the Internet via SegaNet and download self-created graffiti tags, or upload tags of their own. Largely due to the discontinuation of the Sega Dreamcast, sales were shown to be relatively low. Despite the commercial failure of Jet Grind Radio, the game has garnered cult video game status.

Plot

The game begins with a familiarization of player maneuvers and the introduction of several graffiti artist gangs within the provided virtual world. One of the antagonist gangs, Love Shockers; and the protagonist gangs, GG's are two of the several existing gangs within the virtual world. The GG's (being the gang you control) consists of several interactive players who go by the monosyllabic names of Beat, Gum and Tab. These few individuals all live in Shibuya-cho, an area occupied by the female gang, Love Shockers.

Throughout the course of the story, the protagonist is hunted by Captain Onishima, the police and a S.W.A.T team --yet another obstacle to avoid while defeating rival gangs. Also, Professor K narrates specific parts of the game via his eponymous pirate radio station.

Weapons to usurp the culprits include, Noise Tanks and Poison Jam. Once the protagonist defeats each gang they hand over their belongings and grant the area to the graffiti gang which dethroned them.

Towards the end of the game the protagonist is later hunted by the henchmen of Goji Rokakku; leader of the fictitious gang, The Golden Rhinos. Once the protagonist successfully usurps the areas seized by the Golden Rhinos, the player then must defeat Goji on a rooftop filled with giant rhinos.

The long-awaited ending is merely the protagonist defeating Goji, thus ending the game.

Characters

Several characters underwent name changes from the Japanese translation; all of these are displayed in parenthesis.

Regular

Beat
Combo
Cube
Garam
Gum
Mew (Bis)
Piranha (Sugar)
Slate (Soda)
Tab (Corn)
Yo-Yo

Hidden

Goji Rokkaku
Love Shockers
Noise Tanks
Poison Jam
Pots the dog

Soundtrack

The upbeat Jet Set Radio soundtrack included an array of eclectic songs combining the musical genres of J-pop, Trip-hop, Hip-hop and electronica.

Funky Radio - B.B. Rights
Mischievous Boy - Castle Logical
Just Got Wicked - Cold (English Version Only)
Miller Ball Breakers - Deavid Soul
On the Bowl - Deavid Soul
Up-Set Attack - Deavid Soul
Yappie Feet - Deavid Soul
Yellow Bream - F-Fields
Magical Girl - Guitar Vader
Super Brothers - Guitar Vader
Grace and Glory - Hideki Naganuma
Humming the Bassline - Hideki Naganuma
Let Mom Sleep - Hideki Naganuma
Moody's Shuffle - Hideki Naganuma
Rock It On - Hideki Naganuma
Sneakman - Hideki Naganuma
Sweet Soul Brother - Hideki Naganuma
That's Enough - Hideki Naganuma
OK House - Idol Taxi
Improvise - Jurassic 5 (English Version Only)
Patrol Knob - Mixmaster Mike (English Version Only)
Slow - Professional Murder Music (English Version Only)
'Bout the City - Reps
Everybody Jump Around- Richard Jacques
Dragula - Rob Zombie (English Version Only)
Electric Tooth Brush - Toronto

Sequels and alternate version

===Jet Set Radio Future
=== A sequel to Jet Set Radio, Jet Set Radio Future
, was developed for the Microsoft Xbox and released in Japan on 22 February 2002, in North America on 26 February 2002 (under the title JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future) and in Europe on 14 March 2002 as a launch game for the console.

Jet Set Radio Advance

There was also a version of Jet Set Radio released for the Game Boy Advance system in 2003.

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