Dom Robinson reviews

Distributed by
Activision

Sadly, that's where the entertaining part ends. You are greeted by a bastardised version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, so they don't have to pay for using it and the action allegedly is set on all 40 levels of the building, but, from what I could stomach of it, the constant trapsing round a bland, dull, grey set of plasterboards was repetitive and painful to endure. It also makes for a depressingly linear game... so many doors to choose from, but all but one that lead anywhere are locked(!) Reminds me of Resident Evil: Survivor, Add to this 3D graphics which are on a par with Daikatana, sluggish movement - even when running - plus it's difficult to even walk through a door sometimes: Move forward against a wall and the screen will jump like a stuck record making you traverse the same short piece of ground again and again until you move out of the way, rather than letting you creep along the wall. If you get jumped on by the baddies they'll riddle you with bullets and you'll be lucky to have the merest chance of hitting many of them, although if you get the chance it is fun to hit them with the axe. The original Die Hard Trilogy was excellent, but this doesn't even come close to meeting the initial section which was also based on McClane's first outing. I could say that at least this game only costs £19.99, but then so does the Special Edition DVD and you'd be far better advised to buy that.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2002.

This game was played on a PC with the following spec:
Intel PIII 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM (133 Mhz), Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, Soundblaster Live! 1024.