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Die Hard (1992)
Great Shooter
Gameplay: Based on Die Hard 2, the program sends you through five stages modelled after key scenes of the film. As N.Y. cop John McClane, you have to shoot terrorists invading Washington's Dulles airport by quickly aiming a crosshair at them. You'll successively clear the luggage center, airport annexe and runway, then chase after the bad guys on a snowmobile and finally shoot it out on the wing of the terrorist's plane. Each stage consists of three screens; on the last one, several tougher bosses will appear. Occasionally, civilians cross the room and pray that you don't kill them. Most dying terrorists drop power-ups, namely med-kits, armour, grenades and weapons that are more powerful or fire faster. You collect these items by shooting them in time. If you do not aim fast enough, the terrorist's bullets will drain your health; you may die three times, but after that, John McClane bites the dust once and for all. Until you restart, that is.
Die Hard (1990)
Excellent game for its time
10/10, Console: NES
Storyline: For New York City cop, John McClane, facing Christmas without his estranged wife and two children was too much to take. Armed with presents, McClane boards a plane for Los Angeles, hoping to patch up his marriage.
McClane arrives at his wife's office building, the newly constructed Nakatomi Plaza, and relaxes while she and her fellow co-workers celebrate Christmas and their most successful year in the history of the company.
But, success has its drawbacks. Enter Hans Gruber, the stylish and cool terrorist who has left behind his once political agenda for a more profitable one--stealing $600 million in negotiable bearer bonds from Nakatomi's vault. What follows is a truly epic confrontation between a team of highly trained, armed and motivated terrorists and a barefoot cop armed with his 9mm, his wits and his determination.
NES Version Gameplay: Made in early 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES), this was the very first Die Hard game every. Its a overhead view with John McClane as a little sprite guy withone leg that moves so it looks as if he has two. The graphics are okay but could be better. The areas consist of tiles to show that its a floor, and a slight 3D look. There are 40 terrorists in the building, which is composed of seven floors. You can only visit four at first - you start at the 32nd Floor (or 31st, maybe something else on Advanced Difficulty), which has two enemies to start out with, and another will eventually come to help. With the elevator you can visit floors 30-34. However, the terrorists have hostages on the 30th floor, so you can't go there until they're out. From the 34th Floor you can go up the stairs to the 35th floor. You can go to the roof from there, but you need a key from an enemy on that floor. The other floor is the 4th floor, which you can reach via express elevator before the 2nd lockdown. This is where other objectives come into play - you can do other things as well. You can blow up the main computer with a rocket, contact the police, all things that may help you. You could go through the game straightforward, but remember this - There are multiple endings.
There are several weapons to use. You start out with a Hand gun, if you kill a certian enemy you get a machine gun. Theres C-4, and you need the detonators to use them. When you kill a enemy, they usually have several goodies to get. Like Stun Grenades and machine guns. Power ups come in a form of a pop-can and will give you alittle health which is the side bar on the top left side.
The 1st ending is easy, all you need to do is die. Theres 2 other endings if you complete the game, one is the bad guys getting away and the other is the ending of the movie.
When all of the locks are down, you must go to the 30th floor, where you will battle with the enemies you may have missed (the staircases are safety areas - if you like, you can fight all 40 enemies after standing in the stairwell the whole game), and the leader of the group.
DOS Version Gameplay: In this version, they used a 3D point of view, you move around in a linear format, killing every bad guy you find. Inbetween levels were a scene from the movie. McClane has a weird redish shirt and strange bajamma looking pants. The camera is lowered to a back of McClane view, and the graphics are alittle better with more detail and 3D graphics.
Die Hard Arcade (1996)
Arcade Beat em' Up
Storyline: When detective John McClane though the Nakatomi Plaza incident was over, he was wrong. His wife still works there, but a band of terrorists have took control and have 24 hostages including the president's daughter.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Gameplay: Known as Dynamite Deka in Japan, Sega decided to create alittle buzz around this title by bringing the Die Hard license in and making the storyline evolve around the Die Hard series. If your into Beat-Em-Uppers, then you'll love this title. If your just a plain old Die Hard fan like myself, I guess its a good game though it has hardly anything about Die Hard in it except the cool box art and trademark sleeveless shirt. If you took a 2D Beat-Em-Upper and added great 3D graphics, you'd get this slightly side scrolling fighting game. the main object is just to go around defeating all the bad guys in each area. Almost anything seen around can be used as a weapon, or has secret power-ups or hand guns hidden in them. The cutscenes are a okay addition to make the storyline easy to follow and very simple. Looks like the main honcho is looking to grab the goods in the Nakatomi Plaze like are old buddy Hans Gruber did, or tried to do.
Theres hundreds of different moves you can use to fight off bad guys, including pushing them to the ground and arresting them. Guns, hair spray, pipes, lighters, and almost any kind of thing that can be used as a weapon can be found. The game works in areas, kill all the bad guys and you go to a new area/room.
If your a Die Hard fan, this doesn't really do the Die Hard world as much justice as it should, but its a great game for your Die hard collection. Theres also a side game, which is Deep Scan, a classic Sega game that gives you credits for the main game, and two players in the main game in case you and a friend wanna give it a go.
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas (2000)
An A-OK sequal
Storyline: John McClane, top cop and the worst nightmare a terrorist ever had, prowls the glittered streets of Las Vegas as hunter and hunted. Invited to the neon city by Kenny Sinclair, an old friend who used to be on the police force with McClane in New York City, McClane ends up smack-dab in a heap of trouble and at the business end of a gun. Sinclair has been hired as a warden for the new Mesa Grande Prison in Vegas and is having a party thrown in his honor on Friday. He wants McClane there to share in his glory. McClane's life consists of cold pizza and sleeping on the couch in a crappy apartment. Maybe Vegas will change his luck.
At the party that Friday night, McClane can't help but be impressed at how far Kenny Sinclair has come. His friend is living the good life. Neon lights drape the city outside, and the cells are so new they don't even have that lived-in smell that reminds McClane of New York apartment's.
Sinclair talks about Klaus Von Haug, the terrorist penned up in solitary B-202. Then he introduces McClane to Reese Hoffman, the owner of the Roaring 20's casino, one of the top hot spots in Vegas.
But before the party gets started, a prison riot breaks out and John McClane is stuck on a bad holiday. He's busy putting down convicts, stumbling over terrorists, and working hard in the city that never sleeps.
In Vegas the odds are against John McClane. But then again, they always are.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Gameplay: The game has its very own storyline, but sticks to the gameplay of Die Hard Trilogy. There are three game modes which are a third-person shooter, a gun game, and an "extreme driving game." But besides choosing to play in one of the three modes, you can also play all of them one after another in Story Mode. for example, you'd play shooting mode, then driving mode, then back to shooting mode. The 3rd-person mode is almost exactly like the 3rd person mode from the first Trilogy. But it seems to be alittle more bumpy then the first, you can still see through walls to spot bad guys like the first. The graphics are almost the same except alittle more detailed and the camera is closer to the ground to make it look like the graphics seem better. There are several weapons you come accross by shooting open boxes, killing enemies or so on. The weapons consist of 9mm pistols, MP5, Shotgun, Shock, Frame Thrower, Rocket Launcher, Grenades, and so on. The bosses are much more difficult then the bosses from the first Trilogy, you might even have to find their weaknesses.
Think of yourself on an amusement park ride, like the Men In Black ride where you need to shoot enemies as fast as possible, thats what the 1st-person mode is like. Enemies pop out all over and you must shoot them while dodging hostages and innocent people who get in the way of fire. Some parts might have a regular person walk all over while you have to shoot enemies and dodge that person from getting shot. After a while, if the person servives you'll be brought to a area with lots of extra goodies. The gameplay isn't as difficult as the first Trilogy's 1st-person shooter, this version seems to be more cluttered and give you alittle more time to shoot an enemy.
The worst area of Die Hard Trilogy 2 would be the Driving Mode, which doesn't seem as entertaining or challenging as the first Trilogy's Driving Mode did. The levels aren't as detailed with less people walking the town and the cars handling isn't as realistic as it should be. The point of each level is to destroy bombs by running over them and destroying enemy cars before time runs out and keeping an eye on your damage meter.
Die Hard Trilogy (1996)
Excellent 3 in 1
Storyline: They're intelligent. Highly-trained. And they kill without remorse. They're a team of vicious international terrorists and unless their demands are met, hundreds of innocent lives will be lost. Hostages have been taken. Explosives set. Now, from the glass-and-steal labryinth of the Nakatomi Plaze high-rise to the crowded terminals of Washington/Dulles airport to the mean streets of New York City, timers tick down the seconds until the bombs detonate, creating an inferno of twisted wreckage and mangled bodies. Die Hard You are in the parking garage of the Nakatomi Plaza, a Loas Angeles skyscraper wired to explode. Above you, there are 19 more floors, crawling with terrorists. They're out to steal millions in negotiable bonds held in Nakatomi's corporation's safe, and they won't hesitate to kill hundreds of hostages in the process.
Now, you've got to fight your way up, floor-by-floor, to the rooftop searching hallways, office suites, the grand ballroom and even floors under construction-killing all the terrorists and rescuing as many hostages as possible.
Oh, one more thing. Once you kill the last terrorist on each floor, a bomb is activated. It will appear on your map as a flashing red dot. Get to it in time and you'll automatically move to the next floor. Don't, and Nakatomi Plaza will be obilerated. So get ready, John McClane is about to begin what could be his wildest-or last-Christmas of his life.
If you're New York cop(LAPD in Die Hard 2) John McClane, there's got to be one thing you're asking yourself as you arrive at washington/Dulles Airport to pick up your wife: Why does this always happen to me? The place crawling with terrorists. They've come to rescue a South American Dictator-and drug kingpin who's being flown to the U.S. to stand trial. And you walked in the middle of the plot.
You see all the action through McClane's eyes, as he races through the terminal annihilating terrorists-but hopefully not civilians and hostages. From the concourse to the New Annex. from the runway to the surrounding countryside. On Foot. by snowmobile. even by helicopter, the chase continues with rapid-fire speed, until you bring down the terrorist escape plan.
Die Hard With A Vengeance New York City: The Objective New York, New York. If you can make it here, you'll make it anywhere and if you can't, half of manhattan will disapear in a blinding flash.
This time, its a gang of terrorists led by the twisted genius, Simon. They've stashed bombs throughout the city to cover multi-billion dollar heist. And Simon Says, John McClane must defuse them but the clock is ticking.
It's a test of your nerves and your driving skills, as you and your reluctant partner, Zeus, seek out and commandeer more then fifteen different vehicles, stomp the pedal down and go. Blaze through the traffic-choked streets of Chinatown in a high-powered sports car.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Gameplay: A classic from the beginning, Die Hard Trilogy had 3 games in one. But that wasn't why it was a hit, it was a hit because all 3 of the games were at the top of its genre alone. Fox Interactive did what few have done, create a game with 3 different genre's and making each one excellent and perfect in almost every aspect. There are 3 game genre's seperate from each other. Theres 3rd person shooting which follows Die Hard 1, theres 1st person shooting which follows Die Hard 2: Die Harder, and finally a driving game that follows Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Die Hard 1 is the 3rd person shooting type action game. Your main goal was to run around each level which was a floor in the Nakatomi Plaza Building, and kill each enemy. You could also save hostages by walking up to them and leading them to a fire escape, which later in roof-top bonus levels to have them escape by helicopter. The graphics were very good back in the early Playstation or Saturn days. The camera would be a slight behind/tilted over head view of John McClane who wore the trademark sleeveless T-shirt and had no shoes. Defeating each enemy in a stage took strategy, you just couldn't run out and shoot since you would also be shot. Think Metal Gear Solid but more action and destruction. each level is designed like a maze and had a boss to fight off as well, which each level was on a different floor of the Nakatomi Building. You can also pick up health in the form of pop-cans, hot dogs and health packs. Some of the various weapons spread all over the levels were Machine Guns, Shot Guns, Grenades, and more. John McClane 9mm Handgun had unlimmited bullets.
Die Hard 2(Or known as Die Harder) is a 1st person shooter/targer type game, think Virtua Cop for the Sega Saturn and you'll know what I mean. The game is played in the very well detailed Dulles Airport, and theres so many Enemies and hostages to kill and save it'll give even John McClane a headache. The most impressive thing about Die Hard 2 is how fast it gets without little slow time, but in some cases it may slow down. The object of the game is to shoot all the terrorists and watch out for waving crazed civilians while watching your health( In the form of little badges). Health, Weapons, and stuff like that float after being found and you must shoot them to get the content. Some weapons you might find easier to use, the Hand gun is much more effective then the very slow shut guns. The Explosive Shotguns are even worse as they can tend to blow up civilians as well.
The third and final game is Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance, which is a driving game. Your goal is to follow the map and head to the next bomb location and run into it to detonate it. You must use all sources to get to the bomb in time, that might even mean running down people or using Ambulances to push cars outta the way. The background voices of John McClane and Zeus give it a true Die Hard feeling as they both yell at each other, saying things like "I need an asprin," or "Are you aiming for those people!" Think Twisted Metal, but more open with more action and violence. You also may have to fight car-bombs by running into the car who tries to get away until you destroy it. Theres 15 different cars to find in a level by following the blue arrow, follow the other arrow to find the next bomb. But remember there's very little time for goofing around. the levels are based in New York City and give it a very nice touch.
The run-down is Die Hard Trilogy is one of the best Playstation and Sega Saturn games ever to hit the market. Die Hard Trilogy also is a Greatest Hits title for Playstation, which not many Playstation games become unless they're that good. The background voices and gore and voilence give it the Die Hard feeling for a fan of the series of newcomer. Remember its not Mature rated for nothing, and may not be suitable for everyone with the blood and so on.