Beam Breakers

2002 video game

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2002 video game

Beam Breakers

Cover art by Michel Bohbot

Developer(s)| Similis
Publisher(s)| JoWooD Productions
Platform(s)| Microsoft Windows
Release|

* EU: 2002
* NA: October 21, 2002

Genre(s)| Racing
Mode(s)| Single player, multiplayer

Beam Breakers is a racing game released in 2002. It was published by JoWooD Productions and developed by Similis. The game takes place in the year 2173. It features flying cars in the city of New York.

## Gameplay

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The highways of New York City are teeming with illegal rush-hour grave-racers. Bad racers end up scraped off the side of skyscrapers while good ones build reputations that some would literally kill for. This is no pedestrian street race scene. It's a contest of minds where confidence, control and a taste for razor's-edge maneuvers separate the original gangsters of the skies from the wannabes and has-been.

Beam Breakers has five cities in 57-mission campaigns. The player has to dodge flying cars and avoid getting caught by the flying police cars. The game also has flying car races where the player races to the first place.

## Reception

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Reception

Aggregate scoreAggregator| Score

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Metacritic| 61/100[1]
Review scoresPublication| Score

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Computer Games Magazine| [2]
Computer Gaming World| [3]
GameSpot| 5.6/10[4]
GameSpy| [5]
GameZone| 7.3/10[6]
IGN| 8/10[7]
Jeuxvideo.com| 8/20[8]
PC Gamer (US)| 79%[9]
PC Zone| 57%[10]
X-Play| [11]

Beam Breakers received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[1] IGN said: "Beam Breakers does manage to create and admirably deliver an enormous, believable, and simply awesome sense of scale and liveliness."[7] However, GameSpot said, "Beam Breakers starts off with a solid concept, but it doesn't quite deliver on it. Though the game does provide a few visceral thrills, it's hard to recommend it to anyone other than someone who is hungry enough for some futuristic racing to look past the game's mediocre production values."[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Beam Breakers for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
2. ^ "Review: Beam Breakers". Computer Games Magazine. No. 147\. theGlobe.com. February 2003. p. 85.
3. ^ Gladstone, Darren (February 2003). "Beam Breakers" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 223\. Ziff Davis. p. 88\. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
4. ^ a b Davis, Ryan (2002-11-05). "Beam Breakers Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
5. ^ Brooks, Mark (2002-11-23). "GameSpy: Beam Breakers". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
6. ^ Tha Wiz (2002-11-05). "Beam Breakers - PC - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
7. ^ a b Sulic, Ivan (2002-11-19). "Beam Breakers Review". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
8. ^ Romendil (2002-10-23). "Test: Beam Breakers". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
9. ^ Peckham, Matthew (November 2002). "Beam Breakers". PC Gamer. Vol. 9, no. 11\. Imagine Media. p. 104\. Archived from the original on 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
10. ^ "Review: Beam Breakers". PC Zone. Dennis Publishing. 2002.
11. ^ Bemis, Greg (2003-01-13). "'Beam Breakers' (PC) Review". Extended Play. TechTV. Archived from the original on 2003-01-14. Retrieved 2020-10-23.

## External links

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* Beam Breakers at IMDb
* Beam Breakers at MobyGames