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Overtake that car! Get close to the explosion! [[Describe Topic Here|Describe]] ''[[Stuntman]]''! [[Most Annoying Sound|Cut, that was too slow]]!!
 
''Stuntman'' is a game about [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|a movie stuntman]] who works on [[Summer Blockbuster|several films]] that sound incredibly similar in concept to real films. Each chapter focuses on a specific movie, which is split up into different scenes. During each scene, the player has to hit the stunts the Director (who sounds the same no matter what the film is) calls out, with each stunt being some kind of manouever like [[Ramp Jump|jumping off a ramp]], [[Impressive Pyrotechnics|scraping against cars/walls while sparks dramatically fly off]], or [[Indy Escape|driving under a falling pillar]] [[Just in Time|just in the nick of time]]. The more stunts the player hits, the higher rating they get for the film. Mess up too many, and it's a restart for you. Expect to be doing exactly that [[Nintendo Hard|a lot in the later levels.]]
 
Also had a sequel, ''Stuntman: Ignition'', which toned down the difficulty and featured a new scoring system.
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* [[Heroic Bloodshed]]: ''Blood Oath'' in the first game follows in the established tradition of John Woo films.
* [[Hollywood Police Driving Academy]]
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] - You'll recognise several of the movies as homages of famous films, often as a blend of several. From [[Dukes of Hazzard]] to [[Batman]], and even ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' (except with more car scenes, because otherwise you wouldn't have anything to do in it).
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: A major complaint for the first game at least: The game is already hard enough as it is, but having to wait through long loading screens for every retry makes it aggravating.
** Inverted in ''Ignition''. Load times are fairly short, and during the load, one of the bigger stunts is explained to you. When you restart, there is no loading screen ''at all''.
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* [[Racing the Train]]: And driving ''on it'' to boot.
* [[Ramp Jump]]: And how!
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]]: Once you've completed all the scenes for a movie, you can see a trailer for it. They're actually pretty good.
* [[Some Dexterity Required]]: Due to the realistic physics modeling of the cars, you need to be ''very'' dexterous with the controls in order to have any semblance of "control" over the vehicle. The game's introductory levels make you practice various stunt manouevers (such as 180's, reverse 180s, drifting through turns, etc) over and over until you've mastered them. It's made mandatory because you'll be using those maneuvers for the entire game. See [[My Car Hates Me]] above.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The background music for the ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'' <s>ripoff</s> [[Homage]] movie in the original game takes several well known themes from [[John Williams]]' score, mashes them together and [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|files the serial numbers off.]]
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: To some degree. In many scenes you're guaranteed to fail your first time through after having to make some wild-ass turn with only half a second's worth of warning.
* [[Under the Truck]]: You need to perform this stunt frequently in ''Ignition''.
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