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Die Hard Vendetta
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John McClane is back, and he still hasn't got a clean vest. Die Hard: Vendetta is the GameCube's first exclusive first-person shooter and, despite some problems, it puts the [expletive deleted] back into yippie-kai-yay. There have been lots of attempts at making video games out of the Die Hard films; the only decent one so far has been the original Die Hard Trilogy for the PSone. This new game isn't based on any single film but features its own story that takes place several years after Die Hard with a Vengeance and so has nothing in common with the recent PC game Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza. With Vendetta it seems as if the developers are trying to "do a GoldenEye", taking an established action franchise and building a fairly unique shooter around it. Although it's not as inventive as its inspiration, there is a genuine attempt in Vendetta to provide something new: the real-world police settings are well conceived and the constant set-pieces are exciting and well scripted (complete with lots of foul language). Where the game falls down is in the awful graphics and some questionable level design--in particular a number of irritating jumping sequences. But if you can persevere with these there's much to enjoy, especially some of the neat little touches such as being able to hold bad guy leaders hostage and build up Matrix-style bullet time by saving innocent people. It can't be recommended unequivocally but if you like the films or first-person shooters in general, Vendetta is well worth considering. --David Jenkins.
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3/5 |
Die you scum, DIE!!!
(July 09, 2004) |
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Die Hard Vendetta can best be described with one word. Mediocre.
You play as tough guy cop John McLaine, who seems to foil terrorists for a living. Anyway, John is caught up in a whole lot of trouble when his daughter Lucy is kidnapped by a big bad tycoon and a flushed out Hollywood Star.First of all, the graphics are good, but not great. The rendering on people's faces is beautifully done but the fact that they re-use faces in the game means is plain lazy and could have easily been avoided. The controls are good and there are plenty of alternitive control modes for all those who don't agree with the original control scheme. However, it does take some getting used to the way they are layed out but you'll get the hang of it. A neat addition is the auto targetting scheme. You'll have to face loads of badguys and the auto-targetting makes it alot easier. Another auto scheme is the auto jump. Simply run towards a gap and you'll (hopefully) jump over the gap and land safely on the other side. The developers have also tried their hands at stealth modes as well. Simply press a button and you will enter stealth mode and will be able to creep up onto enemies and jam a gun into their head, making the other enemies place down their weapons and surrendering. Then you have hero mode which is a kind of slow-mo mode, and bullet cam mode and... <>O.k..., I'm calm now... Well, there are sadly bad bits as well which obstruct this from a perfect 5 mark. First, at times the A.I is pretty lame. You can walk past guys at time and they won't do a thing about it unless you shoot someone. Second is that the game can be unfairly difficult. At one point, you must find a way to escape a building in 17 seconds or get blow up in the proccess. It took me hours to find the soloution to that problem. Third is that if you do one itty bitty thing wrong then you are in trouble as you stare at the OBJECTIVE FAILURE words at the screen. And finally, this game seems to punish you for trying new things such as finding an alternate way through things and seems badly scripted. There is also some bad language which can make your ears blush at times, so needless to say this ain't one for the kids. All in all, Die Hard Vendetta is a good attempt and is worth a rent out at most. But there are better shooters out there such as Timesplitters or the infamous Perfect Dark. Like I said, one word: Mediocre |
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3/5 |
Quite good
(November 24, 2003) |
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This is quite a good game and if you love the die hard movies or fps games then you should definatly get this game. This a realy funny game and youll really enjoy it but it will only take you about a week to finish plus the graphics arnt the best ever overall this game has alot of pros but also alot of cons |
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4/5 |
Die Hard Vendetta - More than the sum of its parts
(June 18, 2003) |
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I agree with the negative comments regarding specific aspects of this game, namely poor :- Framerate
AI
Graphics
Implementation of "auto aim" (too easy) However, to write this title off would be unfair. The game is surprisingly playable, with interesting puzzles and story. I have been through the game in easy mode just to get the puzzles done. I am sufficiently impressed to return to the game in the future to play it at the hard level as a "shooter". The game itself may have been rushed a bit, but the core is still good. I would like to see a sequel which addressed all the nitpicks above. Then it would really rock ! |
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5/5 |
Die Hard Vendetta - Review
(December 27, 2002) |
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The first exclusive fps(First person shooter) to be released on the GC, and its not disappointing at all, with stealth mode, hero time where you go into slow motion and can watch the bullets fly, and also you can grab an enemy and put a gun to his head to force his colleagues to put down their weapons. You can get enemy unifroms to blend in with the crowd, arrest terrorist and interrogate them. With 14 different guns including a flame thrower, rocket launcher, sniper rifles, machine guns and crossbows! Also grenades, mines, night vision goggles, body armour and medkits. Including 9 main characters. The only thing that lets the game down is the lack of freedom and your path is set out for you but also sometimes you get lost. |
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2/5 |
What a disappointment !
(December 11, 2002) |
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I am a big fan of 1st person shooters and have enjoyed Doom, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters 2 throughout various generations of Nintendo consoles.
I was expecting a great game in Die Hard Vendetta but was hugely disappointed. The 3D engine and graphics are not up to scratch and the autoaim function makes the game abit of a button basher.
The levels are very one dimensional and you constantly have to start them again after making wrong choices, which can be just opening the wrong door or shooting the wrong person. This becomes very frustrating.By no means the worst Gamecube title, but I would advise you to spend your cash on another game. |
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