Description
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is yet another game based on the "cult" blockbuster action movie "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis. Other than all other
Die Hard games, it really tries to capture the movie scene by scene - without using any actual video clip. You'll witness the arrival of the bad guys like it's in the movie (with the same sound effects and even the same moody background music), the scene where the head bad guy introduces Mr. Takagi, the execution of Mr. Takagi - all like you would watch the movie. Every spoken sentence is 100% identical to the movie script, I think even the voices are the real voices of the actors.
The developers built the whole Nakatomi Plaza environment like we know it - they really didn't leave anything out. Of course, to make the game bigger, they needed to expand the walkable areas as well as add more bad guys to shoot.
You play as John McClane, a cop who wants to get reunited with his wife Holly on Christmas Eve. She works at Nakatomi Plaza, a huge business building. He is just arriving at the christmas party and has just met his wife when some bad guys enter the scene, take hostages and then kill Mr. Takagi, the CEO of the Nakatomi Corp. They want money, that's all - more than 600 Million Dollars, to be exact. John can't let them go - after all, he's a cop and his wife is among the hostages! So he gets his gun and his badge and runs to the fire exit...
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is the typical new generation 3D shooter, with many bad guys to kill and some easy puzzles to solve. It lives from the massive "deja vu" feeling the player gets when he sneaks through scenes he knows from the movie. Dead enemies give you many different weapons and ammo. There are health kits too, but they did at least hide them in first aid boxes.
The game uses the
Lithtech engine.
Alternate Titles
- "Stirb langsam: Nakatomi Plaza" -- German Title
- "Duro de Matar: Nakatomi Plaza" -- Brazilian Title
- "Die Hard: Piège de Cristal" -- French Title
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Trivia
The most exciting feature of Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is the mail-in form that comes with it for a free copy of the original movie on VHS. It's even the remastered Special Edition with a "making of" featurette and THX audio. Unfortunately, this offer is only good in the US and for a limited time.
Also, to elaborate on Phlux's trivia, the profanity issue is another one of the game's inconsistencies. The "ordering a pizza" line was censored but the F word did get used several times elsewhere in the game. Perhaps Motorola didn't want naughty language spoken over the (anachronistic) 2-way radio they payed to have plugged in(to) the game.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
NeoMoose (1114) on Apr 24, 2002.
