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Outstanding game, but takes a little patience.
If you played Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast, then you should be very familiar with this game on the GBA. The controls and layout are very similar to the Tony Hawk games on the GBA. You play the game on an isometric view which works very well, as long as you have the patience to understand how the play angle works. It is sometimes difficult to align your grind with platforms or reach certain areas because you have no idea if your character is too much to the left or too much to right of the platform you actually want to hit. Getting familiar with the controls is another task to understand in order to fully enjoy the game. But patience will earn you rewards of a great game, memorable characters, and a fantastic combination of J-Pop/Hip Hop tunes. Jet Grind Radio may actually get you hooked on Hip Hop music! This is one of my favorites games.

Great graphic, Good gameplay horrible controls.
In the end the effort put into this game falls apart do to the horrible controls. They idea behind them seem to be to duplicate the controls of the original console versions. However, in then the controls become anti-intuitive making it difficult to truely enjoy the game.

The stlye of the graphics are in the same vain as those of the console versions, and do a good job of giving you a nice feel. However its all ruined by shady controls.

Good, real good
Like said before, this game rocks. The controls are different, but once you've played the game for longer then 30 minutes, the controlling is very fluent, and I didnt even have to think about it at all. The sound and music is 110% for a GBA game. try it with head phones and you just might be blown away.

mrsamlee's review
A great game. It is just like the original Dreamcast version. The controls are awkward at first, but once you get used to it, you couldn't see it controlled any other way. The music is shortened, but some contain lyrics. The graphics are fairly good. It almost looks cel-shaded. It included the custom graphic editor.

Best of all is the multiplayer. Grab a couple friends who have Jet Grind Radio, and you'll have a blast. This game's multiplayer is up next to The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords. It includes races, freestyle skating for points, and timed tagging sessions.

There are a few known bugs when grinding up railings. The game is known to freeze on rare ocassion. A minor set-back for an otherwise excellent game.

This is a great game to take on the go.

-Review my mrsamlee

Surprisingly faithful to the original
Vicarious Visions has done it again. The developers behind the excellent GBA Tony Hawk games and Spider-Man: Mysterio's Menace have crafted a great game that is surprisingly faithful to it's original Dreamcast counterpart. The storyline is simple: you play as various members of a street gang on futuristic roller blades waging a turf war with other gangs by spray painting while dodging the oppressive police force. Just about everything from the original Dreamcast classic is retained here, including the custom graffiti editor. The graphics are nicely animated and are surprisingly similar to the original game with it's cell-shaded 3-D graphics, and the game also features some of the best music and sound quality you'll ever hear from the GBA's speakers. Where Jet Grind Radio really snags though is with the controls. Gamers familiar with the GBA Tony Hawk games and the original Dreamcast game will instantly pick up the control scheme, but new comers will find them very tricky to grasp. Spray painting is tricky as well; but with enough practice and patience, you'll find a very fun time with this game. All in all, GBA owners who loved the original Dreamcast classic will find a lot to love here.