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Dean[SAS]
16-03-2007, 10:24
After remembering how much I played Die Hard Trilogy on the Saturn years ago I picked up a copy for £2 yesterday.
While digging in the cupboard for my Saturn I was reminiscing how cool the 3rd part was. Driving around New York chasing and blowing up bombs, what can be more fun?!
Switching on the Saturn, loading the game up and selecting the 3rd part - I was confronted with a mess of pixel characters low res graphics.
"OK, it's not the graphics that count though" I thought, and proceeded to play the level. Oh my goodness what a load of tosh. I found it hard turning the 90' corners, until i remembered that there was some sort of handbrake button, Aha the right shoulder button, but wait, that only turns me right!?.
Ah yes, the left should button turns me left, so they're "sharp turn" buttons.
What a mangled mess of a game, what kind of designer thought that instead of simulating driving round New York in a pseudo realistic fashion, that boosts and "sharp turn" buttons would be fun?!
I promptly turned off the Saturn, hoping to forget the whole incident and remember the Die Hard Trilogy experience I had 10 years ago.
Now i'm reluctant to try any of my other Saturn gems, incase they don't live up to what i remember.
Anyone else have great memories of games that when on recent play were shattered?
I too fondly remember this game too (but had the ps1 version)
i still have it in a drawer, sounds like its best kept in there.
I do remember the graphics being fairly poor and expect they have dated very badly, but also remember really enjoying the whole game, well mainly the driving and light gun. the other not so much.
The running people over was great fun, and the windscreen wipers to clear the blood :nuts:
punisher46
16-03-2007, 10:40
I seem to find this with a lot of games. Although Mario always seems to impressed....
fivebyfive
16-03-2007, 10:46
before I sold my dying dreamcast, tried to play headhunter and shenmue but the controls were horrible (same with syphon filter on the ps1). The only games that have aged well are most 16 bit games
punisher46
16-03-2007, 10:53
syphone filter, now that brings back memories....Im still cotemplating trying banjo kazooie again as I loved it at the time.....
the syphon filter games were excellent. I seem to remember the third part of Die Hard Trilogy was always rubbish and difficult to control, the first and second parts were genius!
the syphon filter games were excellent. I seem to remember the third part of Die Hard Trilogy was always rubbish and difficult to control, the first and second parts were genius!
Could you play them in any order? I think you could? Infact it was the two parts based on Die Harder (Virtua Cop alike) and With a Vengeance (Driving) that were fantastic. Probably best not to dwell on the Nakatomi Plaza level though.
ShakeyJake
16-03-2007, 11:50
Yeah the game allowed you to chose which of the trilogy you played. I remember loving the driving section, sounds like it's probably best left as a memory.
Often true, but saturn sega rally imho has yet to be bettered by and driving game on any platform. And it still plays as well today as it did back then.
Probably best not to dwell on the Nakatomi Plaza level though.
I loved that part, blowing up desks and PCs with my steyr!
Should just get the PS1 version the saturn version was toss!!! (As most other multi-platform games that came to the saturn, always turned out better on the PS1)
mr starface
16-03-2007, 13:45
It was the non stop reptition of comments from the pee poor Samuel L Jackson soundalike that ruined the driving segment for me.
"You just killed someone!"
"Somebody get me an aspirin!"
etc etc
PockyMonster
16-03-2007, 21:12
take die hard out and put NiGHTS in instead. problem solved :D
The Chad
16-03-2007, 22:47
I loved the "Die hard 2" lightgun shooter on the PS1, "Die Hard" was pretty good too but hated the "Die hard with a vengence" part. The only time I really played that was when I was messing about with the cheat codes to turn the car into a pram
Idle Child
17-03-2007, 00:49
']After remembering how much I played Die Hard Trilogy on the Saturn years ago I picked up a copy for £2 yesterday.
While digging in the cupboard for my Saturn I was reminiscing how cool the 3rd part was. Driving around New York chasing and blowing up bombs, what can be more fun?!
Switching on the Saturn, loading the game up and selecting the 3rd part - I was confronted with a mess of pixel characters low res graphics.
"OK, it's not the graphics that count though" I thought, and proceeded to play the level. Oh my goodness what a load of tosh. I found it hard turning the 90' corners, until i remembered that there was some sort of handbrake button, Aha the right shoulder button, but wait, that only turns me right!?.
Ah yes, the left should button turns me left, so they're "sharp turn" buttons.
What a mangled mess of a game, what kind of designer thought that instead of simulating driving round New York in a pseudo realistic fashion, that boosts and "sharp turn" buttons would be fun?!
I promptly turned off the Saturn, hoping to forget the whole incident and remember the Die Hard Trilogy experience I had 10 years ago.
Now i'm reluctant to try any of my other Saturn gems, incase they don't live up to what i remember.
Anyone else have great memories of games that when on recent play were shattered?
Yeah, but no, but yeah... Erm.. But it still had windscreen wipers that wiped the blood off from the windscreen. :D And great dialogue too.
For it's day, Die Hard Trilogy was fantastic (still have my PS1 copy).
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