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Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza

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

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: Lithtech Talon
• Die Hard licensees
• Law enforcement
• Movie-inspired games

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User Reviews

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."	Atomic Punch! (139)
"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"	phlux (4157)	unrated

The Press Says

Game Over Online	Apr 24, 2002	81 out of 100	81
PC Zone	Jun 21, 2002	7.4 out of 10	74
Armchair Empire, The	2002	7 out of 10	70
GameStar (Germany)	May, 2002	67 out of 100	67
Deaf Gamers	2002	6.5 out of 10	65
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Apr 29, 2002	63 out of 100	63
PC Games (Germany)	May 08, 2002	61 out of 100	61
Svenska PC Gamer	Jun, 2002	59 out of 100	59
GameSpot	Apr 23, 2002	5.7 out of 10	57
ActionTrip	Apr 18, 2002	45 out of 100	45

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Trivia

One of the mini-bosses can be dealt with by non-weapon mean, and another can be defeated NOT by applying direct firepower. The alternate solutions only appear on two of the 30 levels, but are very entertaining when you do find them.