Die Harder with Boredom
Written: May 10 '00
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Pros: It has the action elements that made Die Hard great
Cons: But that doesn't mean its good at executing it
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| gem1's Full Review: Die Hard Trilogy for Windows |
Ah Die Hard, the ultimate macho man movie series. Chalk full of catch phrases and action, who wouldn't want to make a video game for this license when people eat up action-packed games. Fox did and back in '97 Fox took the Die Hard License and made a semi-decent game. Now, it's time to cash in with the license again since the first one was a moderate success. This time they move to Las Vegas. But all you get is a bad deck of three games into mushed into one.
You have three games in one, you have a third person shooter, a first person click and shoot (ala Virtual Cop) & a car chasing mode. They are all very loosely tied together with a movie theme, but if you want you can choose to jump right into the game and play in Arcade mode.
While Fox Interactive has published some good games with their film licenses like Aliens vs. Predator, this is just god awful. Immediately when you start playing, you notice that you hear the same Die Hard catch phrases, but what's that, where's Bruce? It's some wannabe schmoo to sound like Bruce to do the voice acting. The game play is all strictly mouse and keyboard only, no gamepad support. This is very sad since you can tell from the very blocky graphics and tiny levels that this game was originally made for the PSX then quickly ported over to the PC. Unless you get the patch, you will get a lot of graphic problems with your TNT card of it being too dark or graphic glitches.
The third person shooting is extremely doldrum as you shoot enemies who only move and fight back when you shoot at them. You can magically look into other rooms with Die Hard Trilogy 2's patent "See-Through Walls". You too can never be surprised in the game since you can just move the camera angle around and see into other rooms in the game. The levels itself are a joke as you figure out simple puzzles and continue on in the game while shooting at lame duck enemies. Once you start in first person shooting, you have enemies come up on the screen who wait for 5 seconds before they shoot back. They don't shoot back unless you don't see the large red circle flashing. Its as if they are taunting you to kill them and are on a hunt for cop suicide. The car chasing scene would of been nice if we all still played on 386 machines. You move use your keyboard to move a car that was modeled by a junior high student in intro programming class to try to ram down cars while trying not to run out of time. If you tap them enough, the enemy cars blow up. Or if you get tapped enough times by a rock, you also blow up.
There is hardly any redeeming factor in this game. It just doesn't get any better in this game. The difficulty factor in this game for an average gamer will drive them to boredom in under 15 minutes. The catch phrases get rehashed over and over again until they just aren't interesting anymore. Yeah, it's great when Bruce says it at the right time in the movie, but not when you hear it 209348 times in the game every time you kill someone. Worse, the levels take less than 20 minutes beat, and the whole game will be finished in less than a day unless you beat yourself for buying this game at all. The replay factor is nil unless you're able to pawn it off as a birthday gift to some sap.. I mean a person you kind of know in your life. The final insult is Fox thinking that if they put some music in the game from a band maybe a handful of people had heard of, it would move more units. Spend the money you would on this game on the DVD version of the movie series and not on this rubbish of a game.
Recommended:
No
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