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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!

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.

If you love the movie, you will dig the game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is based on the movie down to the lines. The graphics are great and the game play is easy to learn. What do you expect from a game that I did not pay much for. I love the movie so the game is a fun way to play the part of John Mclane. You get cool weapons to play with and the detail of the levels are quite good. You have to think a little to get thru each level. It not just a typical linear game. You have to look for certain things to move on. Ok, the voices are not like the movie, which is awkward, but you get used to it. Did you think Bruce Willis would do that anyways? You do get the real voice of Al the cop, played by the "Family Matters" tv show father, Reginald Vel Johnson. Its a real good time. Go order it now.

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!

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...

I'm Surprised

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Let me star out with saying that this game is really very fun and I am rather surprised at how badly it got rated. When I received a demo of this game I found it partly origional because of the three health meaters (heart, starmina, and moral)and me being a big Die Hard fan liked how closely it followed the origial story line, but after some surfing the web, I realized that on average this game got a 2/5 from most all major game companies. This confused me, so I played more of the demo and ended up beatig it. It was so fun that I went out and bought Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza that very same day. To rap up, if you loved Half Life, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament, and Die Hard 1, 2, and 3, then my suggestion to you is to disreguard the other ratings and buy this game.

'Just a fly in the oinment...a pain in the [...]'

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...P>"Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza" is the title, and the game follows the events of the first film (The best one) by ear...well, almost by ear. It takes place on Christmas Eve, where New York Detective John McClane is visiting Los Angeles to see his estranged wife and kids. However, while visiting his wife on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Plaza building in Century City, German terrorists seize the building control and take the employees hostage. John escapes fortunately and that's where the game begins.

First, The Pros: The game is very action packed and actually feel like you're in a hostage situation on a high rise skyscraper. Almost everything from the building in the film is digitally animated into the game and it looks like the real thing. Every memorable line from the film, from [...] (yes, it's surprisingly uncut) to "[...]". The graphics in the game are surperb, compared to other games like "Soldier of Fortune" and "Unreal Tournament". But the best thing about that game is actor Reginald Veljohnson reprises his role as the voice of Sgt. Al Powell, John's unseen guardian angel cop from below. I found this to much of a treat to fans of the movie.

The Cons: The game is way too slow in game speed. Even with high powered video cards, like my Nvidia GeForce 4, the game constantly freezes up for a few seconds, especially when you die or during some firefights. Also, the main propagranda of the release of the game was that "The game is kinda like a Director's Cut to 'Die Hard'", meaning that new scenes where to be played. Sounds good, eh? Not really. Actually, it's worse than it sounds. In a way, it ruins the storyline almost, because you want to be John McClane, but not do the same amount of work? You spend half of the game down in the sewers and Parking garage below Nakatomi, and frankly (exclude the pun) it stinks. At one point, the LAPD SWAT members break into the Plaza through the sewers, and immediately attack YOU instead of most of the terrorist. Can't those guys read badges? Also, in the movie, there are only like 8 or 7 terrorists in the building. But to add more action to the game, the programmers add about, oh, 200 terrorists! And the firefights get very tedious after a while.

"DH:NP" has it's downs, but the reason why I gave it 4 stars because no matter how difficult and obnoxious the levels get, I still love playing it because it stays very true to the storyline...sort of.

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?

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.

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.

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