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Stay Away!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: April 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really should have read the reviews, both here and on the net, before getting this game. It lags significantly behind most other FPS's I've played in "fun factor", including the Delta Force series, Soldier of Fortune (my current favorite, I'm anxious to try SOF 2!), even Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force! It's corny, and many times leaves you hanging as to what to do. Since no walk thru's are yet written, you might spend hours wandering witlessly trying to figure out what tool or item or switch you need to find. AI is quite dumb too. I feel "corny" even playing it, what with the old one liners from the movie (where they were quite appropriate) playing at awkward times. Save often while playing, or better yet save your money and get something better!

Judging by the demo...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, normally I despise when people write reviews on games they haven't played. However, I felt compelled to write this after playing the demo of this steaming pile of elephant dung. I loved the Die Hard flicks, and if nothing else was expecting a fun, violent romp that like the movie, required little thought and included lots of cool firefights. Nope. The AI of the baddies rivaled that of a rotting turnip. They just stood still and resigned themselves to being riddled with my bullets. One of the enemies was apparently so overcome with his own idiocy he actually jumped off the top of the skyscraper in one scene. Gotta love that. Also, the demo mission features a [bad] Bruce-Willis-Wannabe voice over that said "I gotta disarm the bombs!" about every 2.3 seconds. Thats a great way to get on your roommates nerves. In any case, don't buy this game. Consider this a warning. There are so many sweet, sweet looking FPS games about ready to be rolled out, just go spend 3 bucks and rent the damn movie and be done with it...

Pretty much poop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm afraid I have to agree with the other two reviews giving the game demo 1 star. This game, at least as far as the demo is concerned, plays like FPS from five years ago. I'm serious. How the developers thought they could release it competively with so many superb FPS out there is beyond me. Couldn't they have at least hired someone who's voice sounds a little bit like Bruce Willis's?

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If I could return this game, I would. The gameplay is non-sensical and the graphics are pretty stale by the current standards. Just buy the movie.

Bad from the Demo

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: February 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just played the demo on my 1.6 Ghz with GeForce 3 and the game was all choppy even at the lowest settings. The combat was very tedious too. I tried to shoot an enemy throught a thin wooden table with an MP5 and it didn't even go through. Hopefully the final game will be improved.

Puts you right in the movie.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There's a lot to like and a lot to dislike in this game. First of all it sticks very closely to the way Nakatomi Plaza looks and sounds so you feel like you really are there. The music is a lot like that in the movie and adds atmosphere. But there are only like 2 tracks! The blood splatter effects are quite cool but shooting a bad guy is the only way to kill him. In this sense the game is VERY linear. There is absolutely no freedom. You HAVE to do what the game wants you to do. Which is really stupid considering the effort that has obviously went into crafting each and every floor of Nakatomi Plaza.

There are a lot more than just 12 terrorists here. Obviously the game has to be beefed up to about 300 to make it more exciting and a few new scenarios are added (And some stuff, like the media attention of the siege, totally ignored). It was also very annoying to see the FBI Chopper STILL flying around after the roof has blown up. I guess this was just a cheap way to avoid a cinematic.

The voice acting is also rather poor. It makes the cinematics hard to watch sometimes. And what's the point of having a CB radio (a cunning excuse to plug a certain product) when it is only used during cinematics and NEVER when you want.

In the ancient Die Hard Trilogy you got lots of weapons. But in this all you get is the ordinary gun, some flash grenades and 4 machine guns. The best of which are sparsely featured in the later levels. You can't even get into fist fights. So the fight with Karl is non-existent. All you do is shoot him. Wow!

And chances for really cool stuff have been ignored. How cool would it be to chuck bad guys thru the windows or off the roof or down the lift shafts? Doesn't happen. Even you jump off the roof yourself it just cuts to 'game over'.

But the worst thing is the ending. It's nothing like the movie, boring and dull. It takes a lot of patience to get thru and then...nothing happens. A cheap, tiny cinematic follows and the game returns to the title screen. Come on! That's it?

By only if you are a fan of the movie. For the casual gamer this is dated stuff.

OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was not that bad not that good. Very much like the movie.

A Fair Diversion for Die-Hard "Die Hard" Fans...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

"Die Hard: Nakatmoi Plaza" isn't riding the cutting edge of first-person shooters. The graphics are functional, and recreate the setting of the film surprisingly well, though the textures and furnishings can feel a bit too limited. As a matter of fact, the game suffers from some fairly poor production values all around. The in-game music feels like it was ripped from a bad Cinemax action pic (it is not, for some reason, the score from the original "Die Hard," nor does it even mimic this). The voice-acting is mostly atrocious, especially when stacked against the movie portrayals. The game's cinematics are there simply for those who haven't seen "Die Hard" (shame on you!), and are pointless for those who are familiar with the film. On top of this, the game's action sequences can range from surprisingly fun to outright dull. Shooting terrorists never really changes all that much, no matter what new hardware they're packing. As for you, you have to make due with a pistol and a machine gun for the first half of the game before you actually stumble upon some heavier, and more satisfying, firepower. "Nakatomi Plaza" also suffers from some poor scripting - sometimes you'll be asked to guard a hostage who never does what he's supposed to. Despite the game's many flaws, though, it's a decent diversion for the price. Even if you are cursing in frustration one moment, you'll still find yourself playing the next. The game manages to surpass the sum of its parts - especially if you're a "Die Hard" fan.

Ok Game if You Liked The Movie

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is designed very well with a beautiful layout of Nakatomi plaza. But the game has many limitations. First, all you can do is shoot the bad guys. No other physical contact is possible. Second, you have to follow the movie to move on to the next scene. And third, The ending is horrible! After all the work you out into it, all you getis a little cinematic at the end. Then the game goes back to the Main Screen. I feel it was a poor attempt to make a game out of a great movie. It can be fun, but I found it more frustrating than anything else.

Yippee Ki-Yay!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just played the demo of this game and it rocks thus far. The demo was surprising hard, given the time constraints. The only flaw that I saw, was that the wire cutters needed to diffuse the bombs, were located with the last guy killed and it was difficult to try to understand how to equip my character with them, once I had them. Other than that though, great story and great graphics! Besides, what is more fun than killing a bunch of terrorists with really bad Austrian accents!! Yippee Ki-Yay, can't wait for it to ship!

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