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 (which is the action masterpiece). 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.

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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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"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."	Atomic Punch! (140)
"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"	phlux (4164)	unrated

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The Press Says

Game industry News (GiN)	2002		80
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jul, 2002	69 out of 100	69
GameSpy	May 12, 2002	69 out of 100	69
Svenska PC Gamer	Jun, 2002	59 out of 100	59
GameSpot	Apr 23, 2002	5.7 out of 10	57
Game Chronicles	Jul 31, 2002	5.5 out of 10	55
IGN	May 07, 2002	5.5 out of 10	55
Peliplaneetta.net	Jun 17, 2002	53 out of 100	53
All Game Guide	2007		50
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jun 07, 2002		50

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Trivia

While it was never stated in either the game, the game manual or the movie, the weapons are:

Handgun -- Beretta 92 (or one of the variants), with 17 round magazine, though in reality Beretta's maximum magazine is only 15 rounds

Submachine gun -- Heckler & Koch MP5

Sniper Rifle -- Steyr AUG assault rifle

M-16 -- The actual gun is M-4, M-16's short-barrel cousin

Heavy machine gun -- M-60 needs no further introduction

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by NeoMoose (1114) on Apr 24, 2002.