Knight Rider: The Game

aka: K2000: La Revanche de Kitt, K2000: The Game
Moby ID: 9731
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This is a game based on the famous TV series Knight Rider starring David Hasselhoff, which aired from 1982 to 1986 in the US.

In the game, the player takes control over the Knight Industries Two Thousand, better known as KITT, a high-tech, fully computerised car. Together with Michael Knight, you have to fight crime in 10 missions and 15 races.

Many original ideas from the TV series have been included in the game. KITT, Michael, Bonnie and Devon are all in the game, as are the evil Garth and KARR. The player can also use various original functions of the car, like Turbo Boost, Super Pursuit Mode, Ski Mode or the famous Scanner, whose sound everyone should recognise.

The game can only be played in campaign mode, where KITT and Michael have to solve a mysterious case, starting out as a simple bank robbery.

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  • Рыцарь дорог - Russian spelling
  • 霹雳游侠 - Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Average score: 54% (based on 18 ratings)

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Average score: 2.5 out of 5 (based on 14 ratings with 1 reviews)

New Genre: Platform Driving

The Good
The answer is simple: it is Knight Rider. I thought due to the nostalgia factor it will provide a good gameplay. I was wrong...

The Bad
Everything else than the fact that the company - Davilex - bought the name. This company has a history in budget games on PSX and PS2. They can boast with (or rather be ashamed of) such games like London Racer, Europa Racer and so on with other "racer" titles. These were all budget games.

And so Knight Rider became such a budget game too! The code is crappy for I played on a dual core system with 1 GB of video and 2 GB normal memory, but the game still became choppy at certain points. And due to the lack of programming skills I don't think it would even work more modern system than Windows XP. Sometimes it is a challenge to run it on that system as well.

The controls are difficult too, since it's easier to make a J-turn from complete stop than to normally turn the car at normal speed. Although if you played some Davilex titles before than it won't be problem.

The graphics would be mediocre if the were not so much of the clipping errors. And the other thing that the dashboard of KITT is just awfully under designed! Everything is black and the buttons or LEDs are just plain. The digital speed-o-meter ugly. And sometimes, if you're lucky, you will be able to see KITT's visual peaks moving on the dashboard.

And now the gameplay: It's a joke. It's over scripted so don't expect any difference if you play one of the missions for the hundredth time. Now it seems that the designer of the game wanted to alloy two completely different genres: the driving and jumping platform games. Here in this game you have to jump around with KITT from rooftop to rooftop then balance on a beam with the car using ski mode! Everything is rather solved by the Turbo Boost however.

And finally some words about the music and sound: The music is some late '90s crappy techno sometimes featuring the original main title of the TV series. In theory this game chronologically plays somewhere in the '80s. What is more outrageous than this though? The fact that some of the effects were just simply cropped from the movie!!! You can even hear the tape hissing, if the crappy techno is not louder than the effects! So it seems at Davilex the programmers, the designers, the composer are all dilettantes! They're not even amateurs for they evidently didn't like the series just wanted to finish the job. Then I have a question to them: Why did you buy the franchise then?

The Bottom Line
It is a cheaply realized strange mixture of a crappy budget racing and an even crappier budget platform game. The only thing that makes it salable is that Davilex bought the Knight Rider license. It's such an offense if you're a Knight Rider fan. Poor Glen A. Larson is turning in his grave although he is not even died yet!

Windows · by MurlocQ (17) · 2013

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Game added by Daniel Saner.

Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Jeanne, Corn Popper, tarmo888, jean-louis, Klaster_1.

Game added July 15, 2003. Last modified May 8, 2023.