It is the latest of a rash of games aiming to combine the graphical style and controls of Tomb Raider with more satisfying combat and novel features. Finally, and perhaps annoyingly for certain PC gamers, the absence of a mid-mission save facility makes it obvious.
Next, the tightly focused, level and objective based mission structure gives more clues. The simple and intuitive control system is the first sign a handful of buttons are all that is needed to send D'arcy spinning around the levels. Mucky Foot has been developing this game simultaneously on PC and PlayStation - and it shows. But, as issuing parking tickets, arresting drunks and beating up homeless people could get boring, the plot is spiced up with the antics of Union City's very own gang of millennial nutjobs - the Wildcats. D'arci Stern is cast as a front line cop with the Union City Police Department, in late 1999. The ex- Bullfrog boys at developer Mucky Foot have seen fit to make the heroine of their first outing a realistically proportioned, loud-mouthed Afro-Caribbean. Urban Chaos is a refreshing new direction for third person action games. But Eidos has decided there is still some mileage in the 'millennial angst' concept - hence Urban Chaos. What is it about the millennium that attracts crazy people? At least now that the proclaimers of global meltdown have calmed down and most people seem to be confident their toasters will still function on January 1, the public is able to concentrate on the real point of New Year's Eve - drinking as much as is humanly possible.
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