The newscast seems to be less and less satirical as time passes

I don't think I've ever seen a game that's just "boot it up and Immediate self-aware 4th wall break wink at camera satire" before even getting to the main menu

The story development in this game is awesome Mission 1: Investigate an homicide Final mission: Save the world.

"Why not just guns." Because then you can't harvest the organs, duh! :)

I didn't know that Jay Bauman was a videogame protagonist

Aw dude, this game is just _overflowing_ with the Y2K aesthetic. All those futuristic fonts, the small goggle glasses, the kinda-Matrix look to everything, the post-vaporwave techno backgrounds, trying to be so ridiculously cyberpunk despite the flipphones and boyband haircuts...

One Hell of an underrated little gem.

Matt, motorcycles dont have reverse, they have your legs

Jack looks like Jake from "Ride To Hell" but with [relatively more] normal body proportions

I think Adam Jensen is related to this guy.

Yes motorcycles don't have a reverse, so you have to waddle backwards with your feet.

Man, look at this late 90's/early 2000's slab of beef of a man, like 80% of the white dudes I knew had that haircut or the bowl cut equivalent. The opening, if done straight, could be a news story now and I would wholeheartedly believe it, except for the guns part. 8:00 (The Man Who Sold The World plays) "Jake, it has been 9 years."

The picture you there isn't from Mario 3 (on the lady's computer screen), but rather a Swedish kids show that aired in the 70's: "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter" which basically means "5 ants are more than 4 elephants". Really good spotting there!! Amuse is also a Swedish gaming developer.

This is paul veorhoven the game.

I have to vicariously play the game through you Matt, so yes, I would like to see more.

Still remember the first time I watched Game Center CX and they just blasted the Headhunter theme like it was nothing, giving me a strong case of "wait no that's illegal"

I was thinking the same thing about the gas station. Like why is this place full of Resident Evil puzzles

it's like a robo cop and starship troopers influenced winback/RE/GTA with light hints of MGS and omicron

There´s a game I remember fondly. Never knew it was on the Dreamcast. I played it on the PS2.

Finally you got around to this forgotten underrated dreamcast classic this game brought some of the mechanics that we see in every Gta type of game.

Why does the main character look like the guy from Ride to Hell: Retribution?

Ahh Headhunter. The game with one of the best, by far, travel songs in the genre. This soundtrack was done by Richard Jacques, of SEGA fame. The same person who did the Sonic R soundtrack, did some music for Jet Set Radio, and was responsible for many of the songs in Metropolis Street Racer before the series became Project Gotham Racing, with Microsoft, and more and more music tracks were from different bands. He may have had a hand in a few songs in PGR1, but his talent is his ability to do many genres of music. A very versatile guy and quite fast in terms of delivering original tunes. Headhunter is one of his first forays, in Videogames, where he began to really flex his orchestral chops compared to his more electronic sound of past titles. Still, even here, you see him mix his orchestral with electronic instruments, particularly flaunted in this game's travel theme.

The moment Matt starts driving the motorcycle and immediately runs into a wall really made me laugh out loud. Truly excellent.

This is weird because Jack Wade is the name of Joe Don Baker's character from Goldeneye, so now I'm imagining this game but you play as Joe Don Baker.

This is one of my fav games on the Dreamcast!

Srly i played that game on my dc when it came out and i was like "holy shit.. thats the best looking game ever"

This was one of my DC favorites, and I think you could easily do a full series. There's the Greywolf fight, the Ramirez fight, the bomb defusal, the Aquadome arena, the Angela/ship level, and the game leads up to a Resident Evil mansion sequence complete with it's own Tyrant knockoff. Don't play Redemption though. It's just...ugh...

Still have nightmares about those AAA motorcycle tests...

I loved this until the mission where you have to race around the city deactivating bombs on a timer and it’s frogging impossible. Months I spent on that mission

When are you going to finish Path of Neo you coward?! This game was pretty sick to watch though, thanks, lol.

I would love to see more headhunter, and the even more bizarre headhunter: redemption. Both games give me immense nostalgic feels for many wasted hours in high school

Now I gotta get myself a copy and play through MGS's unknown but real cool step-cousin.

i had this when i was a wee lad but i was too much of a dumb babby to figure it out pls play more i need to know

Holy cow those fmv sequences are megarace tier hilarious.

Hell yeah, I wanna see more of this. This game looks so weird, like it seems like a well made game, but it's kind of carbon copying games that came before but not in downright terrible way. It seems like a well made put together game.

You are totally playing as Billy Mitchell with an even cheesier haircut.

No reverse on a motorcycle you put it in neutral and walk it back flintstones style so yea it does take that long

"Get fucked sir" Matt's last words to his boss when he left Eidos.

I loved this game to bits - sadly the second one is just not as enticing

I remember Winback! I played it in a friends basement on his N64. Has anyone played the sequel? Winback: The Poseidon Kerfuffle... I'd wager on the possibility of some interesting flophouse content somewhere in that game. At least for those like myself that love obscure and failed franchises. The sequel to Headhunter is another one that most never knew and also has little representation on youtube.

This is incredible

The only thing I can say about the tone of this game can be summarized by two words (AKA one of the bosses in Headhunter): Cyber Cowboy.

This was so fun to watch you getting confused and then drawn into it. Headhunter is my favorite game. It’s like a spy-novel-satire in game-form. It’s loooong too. And well worth playing.

Oh, this game gets very Resident Evilish by the end...🤣 Now try Headhunter Redemption while you’re at it.

I'm re-playing the game now, having experienced it first in September 2021, and am absolutely loving it, from the atmosphere, style, snappy combat, music, details for the time, familiar satire of a not-so-impossible dystopian futuristic situation, entertaining but slightly hammy story to the mission structure and Leila tests. While it's a shame that it hasn't been ported to modern systems and that there will probably never be a third or fourth game in the series, it's great that people are coming to it years later!

I’m so glad you’re playing this. This game is great, and so under appreciated. I’m glad it got a sequel, but haven’t gotten around to play it.

Duuuude I played this game so much, but it wasn't easy at all to 100% it, I think I never did, anyways I loved it.

How is this game so awesome? Those first four minutes alone were absolute gold! I want more. MOAR!!!!!

Future predicted? 😂

It's wild how unbelievable and silly that opening news broadcast was yet it's still more realistic than the live action opening to MGS4

I had this game back in the day. It reminded me of those straight to DVD sci fi movies they usually showed on the Syfy channel on the weekends.

Matt we need a FULL playthrough

I loved this game, i thought the cover system was so realistic.

"Get fucked, Sir!" has me bursting out laughing for some reason.

Jack Wade was the name of the CIA agent in Goldeneye.

Huh. Didn't know there was a Fox News game. Also, Gabe Logan is the other not solid Snake dude you were thinking of Shoutouts to Casio

Nice! I remember I had to mod my Dreamcast to even play this back in the day.

Amuze. I know what youre thinking. These guys mustah just made headhunter and thats it and thats why we dont know them. But they have a vast library of titles youd be surprised by. Theres headhunter....and also headhunter redemption.

I'd honestly love to see this rereleased in some way. It was one of the many games that made me wish I asked for one for Christmas as a kid ;)

8:11 this dude was gigachad before gigachad even became a thing.

I probably played this around 2004. Quite a blast from the past.

Ah, I absolutely love this game, and the main theme music is magnificent!

Been looking for this game for years!! Thanks

I love how the newscast changes its name from "All you want to know" in the beginning to "All you NEED to know" at the end. XD

yes more of this please

One of my favorite dreamcast game. I remember going to ncsx to import it. Still have my original copy.

Love this game. BTW, the bike is a 99 Yamaha R1

Headhunter is an amazing Dreamcast game. I imported it back in the day and loved it. It is still fun to play nowadays but you really had to play it when it was somewhat current to truly appreciate it.

I remember playing this game on PS2 at some point almost 20 years ago. I enjoyed it but never felt compelled to play it again.

Some motorbikes I don't believe have a reverse you have to move them manually that's make it slower

Keep the weird train a rollin’! This is early 2000s gold!

I would like more of the headhuntering with the awkward shooting and pre-GTA3 motorcyle driving and the mediocre rivals.

"get fucked sir" was way funnier to me than it should have been

I do indeed know about WinBack on the N64, 3rd person action game with stealth and duck behind cover mechanic

That intro was great! That was so Robocop!

23:08 The picture on her screen is from the intro to a Swedish kids' show called "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter", had to look it up and it turns out the developers are Swedish, so I guess they put it in there as a funny little easter egg. Definitely made me do a double take when I saw it there.

Totally forgot about this game, I used to play it so much. Damn!

I've heard of headhunter but only the second one which i thought was the first which i thought was the only one. Looks interesting.

26:52 BEST EPIC suspenseful music for doing nothing hahaha!! WinBack's multiplayer death matches were some of the funniest things. My friends and I would be laughing so hard, after just 10 minutes of playing, that we'd be crying. 😂 😂 😂 😂

I remember Winback and will confess to loving it.

If I had this back in 01 on my Dreamcast this would have blown my mind lol super ambitious for its time and those fmv's are the perfect amount of cheese with genuine world building

The music in this game is awesome action music.

The dude looks like Billy Mitchell with Raziel's hair, I just can't take anything seriously looking at that face

"I'M ON A GIANT JPEG!" XD XD XD

The ENP firearms sounds like something the bad guys from Policenauts could have used.

Remembering playing these Dreamcast games on burnt DVDs

This game is actually really impressive.

Yo matt you have to play draconus cult of the wyrm!

Why do i remember renting this at hollywood video for the ps2 for it not to work and waste my week of rental ?-_-

Eyy, it's the game with the theme song that's used in Game Center CX!

HOLY SHIT I remember this game 😱😱😱

32:43 Yes, please, sir, may I have another?

I remember playing the gas station level on one of the old ps2 demo discs

I loved this game, so many weekend rentals.

I can’t I can’t stop laughing amazing😂😂😂😂

I played this probably 5 years ago with my ex on the PS2. I thought it was a weird game but loved the news cutscenes. Never got to finish it and I had no idea about the sequel.

Never even heard of this game. Looks so ambitious

I remember playing this back in the day, it really shows what the dream cast could do, if only they had more time with the dream cast :(.

I assume he's playing on an emulator, because while the game was always a bit weird I don't remember it being too difficult to play on the controller. The motorcycle though was always tough. Headhunter was an awesome Dreamcast game, so I'd like to see more.

Headhunter's soundtrack deserved a better game (And i legit sorta like headhunter but man, those bits where you ride the bike to get enough XP to do the next mission fucking suck)