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Here's something you don't see
every day, a Japanese version Die Hard Trilogy released by Sega
themselves. So, is this the same game as the western Sega released Die
Hard Arcade? The answer to that is no. This is the poor attempt at
making a good games based upon a movie license. While the idea for a Die
Hard Trilogy game is nice it just doesn't work or at least not in the
way Cinergi have put this game together. Read on and find out why.
DIE HARD - OK, Die Hard has you running around Nakatomi Plaza just like
in the move but unlike the movie this consists of 20 stages that all
play and look very similar. To add to the insult of boring scenery, the
controls are very awkward and lead to you being stuck or killed many a
time. I mean, how hard can it be to make an overhead perspective
game control well? It's been done a million times much better than
this effort.
DIE HARD 2 / DIE HARDER - OK, this is more promising than the 1st part
of the game. It's played as a type of Virtua Cop rip off having you
blast the bad guys away with the Sega Light Gun or Sega Mouse or even
the standard controller. The problem here is that the camera moves in
the most unrealistic fashion ever. Add the choppy frame rates and low
resolution textures and you have yourself one hell of an ugly looking
game. I quite liked the digitized heads on the characters though.
Not because they look good but for their comical nature. However
they're not meant to be comical.
DIE HARD 3 / DIE WITH A VENGEANCE - Oh dear. Things are not getting any
better. Die Hard 3 is a race against time to disarm the bombs left by
our friendly terrorist Simon Grusberg (Hope that's spelt right). To be
honest this is probably the most frustrating out of all games on the
disc. The car that you must drive has the worst handling ever and if
that wasn't bad enough the city area is very hard to navigate aound.
So there you have it. Surprisingly the Saturn version isn't that much
worse than the PlayStation version for visuals or playability. Makes you
wonder why this was a Christmas hit on the PlayStation, doesn't it?
It is true though. I always bitch about Saturn versions of
PlayStation games being crap and even though most of the time the Saturn
conversions do look worse they play just like the PlayStation originals.
Yet most of these PlayStation games are so dull it really amazes me the
amount of crap the casual gamer would buy for the system just because of
the name or developer.
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