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Beverly Hills Cop for PlayStation 2
Beverly Hills Cop for PlayStation 2 is an action game in which officer Axel Foley travels to California after Billy Rosewood disappears during an investigation. The campaign follows a fixed sequence of police assignments. You search locations, sneak past guards and use firearms when a confrontation can no longer be avoided.
Missions alternate observation, taking cover and shooting. The game presents a specific objective each time, such as entering a building or eliminating suspects, and then directs you to the next part of the story. This is not a freely explored Beverly Hills: routes are linear and actions take place in confined levels. Careful movement can delay a gunfight.
The campaign is entirely single-player and contains no local or online multiplayer. Progress is saved to a PlayStation 2 memory card. This page covers the 2006 European PS2 disc by Atomic Planet Entertainment and Blast! Entertainment. The game uses Axel Foley and other names from the film series, but not Eddie Murphy's likeness or voice. It is also not the identically titled 1990 home-computer game.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Beverly Hills Cop for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Beverly Hills Cop
Atomic Planet Entertainment developed Beverly Hills Cop for PlayStation 2 and Blast! Entertainment released it exclusively in Europe in 2006. The film series had not appeared in cinemas for years at that point. The game therefore used the familiar title and characters for a new story instead of directly accompanying a recent film.
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills in the campaign to investigate Rosewood's disappearance. The developers divided that investigation into linear action levels with stealth and shooting. Because the licence did not include Eddie Murphy's likeness and voice, the digital Axel received his own appearance and portrayal. The game remained single-player and did not build police chases into an open city.
No sequel to this PS2 release followed. Atomic Planet Entertainment worked on several licensed and budget games in the same period, while Blast! Entertainment mainly served European shops with older film and television names. Beverly Hills Cop belongs to that specific late phase of the PS2 catalogue. This product page therefore defines the identity precisely: the 2006 European disc with a new solo campaign, not the films, the 1990 home-computer game or later plans for the series.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Miami Vice also uses a 1980s police franchise and combines stealth with gunfights in linear missions. It has you control Crockett and Tubbs in a drug-trafficking story. Beverly Hills Cop follows only Axel Foley and starts with Rosewood's disappearance. Both are solo campaigns without an open city.
Reservoir Dogs turns an older film into missions featuring shooting, hostages and car journeys. Beverly Hills Cop also uses a familiar film title, but follows a police officer and has no reputation system based on robberies. Both choose fixed levels rather than an open world, while their tone and perspective differ strongly.
24: The Game alternates shootouts, interrogations, puzzles and vehicles within a television thriller. Beverly Hills Cop keeps the action simpler and focuses on stealth and shooting around one investigation. Both use familiar police characters in a new story, but 24 offers more playable characters and types of assignment.
Black Monday follows police officers and criminals through a realistic London with car journeys and gunfights. Beverly Hills Cop has a linear level structure and offers no freely drivable city. Both use cinematic crime scenes, but The Getaway divides the viewpoint between several protagonists while Axel alone remains central.
True Crime lets an officer drive freely through New York, solve cases and respond to street crime. Beverly Hills Cop likewise uses a police officer as its hero, but guides him through fixed indoor and outdoor locations without open-world patrols. True Crime has many side activities; Beverly Hills Cop keeps to one compact story.
