Minority Report: Everybody Runs

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Minority Report: Everybody Runs
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Developer(s)Treyarch (PS2/GC/Xbox)
Torus Games (GBA)
Publisher(s)Activision
Producer(s)Alexander W. Offermann
Designer(s)Brian Reed
Programmer(s)Shawn Baird
Artist(s)Sukru Gilman
Composer(s)Michael Hampton
Jesper Kyd
EngineTreyarch NGL (PS2/GC/Xbox)
Platform(s)
ReleaseGame Boy Advance[1]
  • NA: November 12, 2002
  • EU: November 29, 2002
PlayStation 2[2]
  • NA: November 19, 2002
  • EU: November 29, 2002
GameCube[3] & Xbox[4]
  • NA: November 19, 2002
  • EU: December 6, 2002
Genre(s)Beat 'em up, third-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Minority Report: Everybody Runs is a 2002 third-person shooter beat 'em up video game based on the 2002 film Minority Report. It was developed for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox by Treyarch, and for the Game Boy Advance by Torus Games, and published by Activision.

Gameplay[edit]

Minority Report: Everybody Runs is a third-person shooter beat 'em up game that spans 40 levels. Its main selling point is the ragdoll physics engine, with highly exaggerated effects to enhance interaction with the environment. Enemies thrown against walls or railings will strike or fold over them in a semi-realistic fashion, and will often smash through breakable objects. The player can also use futuristic weapons, both those featured in the movie and new ones created especially for the game by Activision. There are also a few levels which incorporate the use of a jetpack, allowing Anderton to fly around the environment.

A major aspect connecting the video game to the movie is that, in the film, protagonist Anderton believes that he has been framed for a future murder and sets out to prove his innocence. In line with the film as well, Anderton never uses lethal force against criminals or the cops that chase him, all weapons either render the opposition unconscious or incapacitated. However, the game does not use the likenesses of the actors from the movie, with the player character being voiced by Clancy Brown as well as looking like him.

Plot[edit]

The game starts with PreCrime Captain John Anderton pursuing future murderer Andre Serena throughout a meat packing facility. Anderton bests Andre and fellow PreCrime officer Barry arrives to subject the latter to virtual reality (a form of punishment since murder is outlawed in the society).

Anderton arrives at PreCrime HQ in Washington, DC where he is greeted by FBI agents Danny Witwer, Ben Mosely, and Ken Nara. Witwer explains that he was sent by the Attorney General to overlook the operations of PreCrime. Barry alerts Anderton to a vision by the Precogs: John Anderton will be murdered by Nikki Jameson, a consultant of SOL Enterprises. Anderton, Barry, and Mosely arrive at SOL to apprehend her, but she escapes. Returning to HQ, Anderton is haunted when the Precogs generate a new vision, revealing that he will murder Roy Verhagen, a man he had never met. Barry witnesses the vision and attempts to help John escape. As Anderton fights his way to escape PreCrime HQ, he confronts Mosely, soundly defeating him, and escapes via jetpack.

Anderton goes to the mall to find Rufus, a former criminal that runs a club. After a short talk, Anderton heads back to his apartment, where Barry informs him that the city has a bounty on him. He also tells Anderton that 2 out of the 3 Precogs have a report, with the last one's report MIA, suspecting a glitch in the program. Anderton tells Barry to send him info on Iris Hinemen, the woman who initiated the Precogs program. PreCrime officers arrive to arrest him. Anderton makes his way to the rooftops, where Witwer surprises him, and Anderton destroys the hovership he is commandeering.

As this happens, Verhagen has a talk with Nikki, revealed to be a contractor hired by Verhagen to kill Anderton. Anderton reaches the botanical gardens. He finds Iris in the greenhouse, where she tells Anderton that he has fallen upon a scenario known as a "minority report": The Precogs are never wrong with their visions, but, occasionally, disagree on the outcome; the perpetrator could have an alternate future where they are innocent. This is kept secret from PreCrime and the perpetrator, and erased from the system. Both Anderton and Iris agree that public knowledge of the minority report would shut the PreCrime task force down. Iris instructs him to find the dissenting Precog and download the information needed to clear his name, at which point PreCrime arrives, and Anderton has to protect Iris from the task force and leave the gardens.

Anderton meets a black market doctor at the Pepper Hotel to change his eyes and bypass the city's optical scanners. After commotion occurs, Anderton leaves the hotel, witnessing a riot against PreCrime. He manages to avoid the riots, only to run in with FBI agent Nara, incapacitating him in a shootout. He contacts Barry for information on Roy Verhagen.

Anderton arrives at PreCrime HQ to find Barry, who reveals Verhagen is the leader of SOL Enterprises, a multimillion-dollar company specializing in robotics, and a major dealer in the black market, supplying criminal empires with weapons. Anderton frees Agatha from the compartment and make their way out of PreCrime HQ.

At the mall, Anderton takes Agatha to Clancy, a janitor, to keep her safe, before going to Rufus, who decodes Agatha's visions. Rufus warns Anderton to avoid SOL Enterprises, and tells him about Shinya Okawa, a former employee of SOL. Agatha returns to PreCrime as Anderton goes to meet Okawa.

On the subway train, during a routine retina scan, a PreCrime officer notices Anderton. With help from some civilians that fought back against PreCrime, Anderton commandeers the subway train car and defeats Mosely for the second time. Witwer, alive and well, tells Anderton to turn himself in, but Anderton refuses.

Entering the ruins of the Sprawl, Anderton sees the riots still ongoing. He finds Okawa inside his fortune cookie factory, where they have a brief heated discussion. As things simmer down, Anderton is sent to Okawa's apartment to retrieve the latter's computer in exchange for information about Verhagen. Anderton retrieves the object, and Okawa reveals Verhagen's location.

Anderton goes to a waste management facility, which has a backdoor to Verhagen's lair, where he fights off PreCrime and robots commissioned to kill Anderton. Nikki joins the fight against Anderton; she is beaten and thrown into the lower level. Anderton pursues Verhagen as Witwer and two PreCrime officers arrive. Desperately, Verhagen attempts to escape, but Anderton cuts him off and holds him at gunpoint. Verhagen begs for mercy, offering Anderton money, women, or power, but Anderton refuses, and a gunshot is heard as the screen fades to black. As it cuts back, Verhagen sees that Anderton deliberately missed the shot.

Anderton witnesses Verhagen's imprisonment firsthand. Content with the results, Anderton is reinstated into PreCrime and leaves via a hovership.

Reception[edit]

Minority Report: Everybody Runs received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[33][34][35][36]

References[edit]

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