Customer Reviews

Body Harvest

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Don't judge this game by the pictures, or you'll be one of many to miss this tragically overlooked game. While the grahics are very bland and utilize heavy fogging, that can't detract at all from the quirky, action-packed fun that's to be had in this title. In the simplest terms, you go around and blow up big bugs, but the addition of puzzle-solving and some non-extermination related tasks - like putting out fires - make for a deeper experience. Add to that the ability to commandeer any parked vehicle and drive it to fight the bugs, and you've got one cool game! There is one thing I HATE about this game, though, and it's the save feature. You utilize the standard save point system, but it was poorly implemented in some cases. For instance, after beating the second boss in the first world, you go to the next level by a boat you picked up earlier in the level. However, if you don't beat that next stage, and load up you saved game, you're on the island where you beat the boss - with no boat! You must then go throug the entire secong level, pick up the boat, and cross into the new world. Annoying, eh? But if you can put this aside, there's a great game to enjoy.

I have to admit, as much as I want to praise this game, it is mostly wasted potential. Even though this game came out in the later stage of the N64's run, it has the graphics of a third party release title. (Read: They're not all that great.) Everything about the game reaches towards high concepts, but almost nothing reaches its goal. The idea is that you are a timetraveling hero who has to save the world from various attacks from interstellar insects throughout history. While the story is pure fluff, the gameplay (at least in theory) is not. DMA is well known for the Grand Theft Auto series of games, and Body Harvest follows a similar formula. You shoot things, then you get into various vehicles and shoot more things. The main difference is that in Body Harvest you don't want to run innocent people over.

The controls are innovative and simple, but not very well implimented. Its easy to get the hang of walking and driving the multitudes of cars/boats/planes/tanks, but the controls are too lose for your character to move around with much precision. In addition, the aiming system also fails to live up to its high concept. Basically you press the aim button, which brings up a cool looking recticule, but limits your movements. However, since the enemies are so slow and predictable, and the areas are so spacious, battles boil down to mere shooting galleries. When the enemies get tougher, faster, and more numerous in the later levels, it remains a shooting gallery, just with the bugs doing the shooting. At this point in the game, vehicles become not just the coolest part of the game (and they are cool) but totally necissary, since you are toast without them even on the easy difficulty. Combat in vehicles, even with aiming cababilities, usually devolve into shooting whatever is right in front of you.

Basically, this is a high concept game that didn't quite make the grade and feels very rushed (despite the fact that I waited a long time during its extended development.) Furthermore, with the next generation systems now on the market, the graphics and framerate become simply unacceptable and this game might be better off when viewed as a curiousity piece or a very early beta of Grand Theft Auto 3,

This is my first review I've done of a video game.Body Harvest is a game that's very much fun to play.Although I read through the instruction booklet,this game SEEMS tough to figure out as to what to do next.It's almost like having your OWN Johnny Quest cartoon to play.Although you get just one life in your player(sort of a futuristic-like space warrior),you get plenty of chances to rejuice his power.The graphics,in MY opinion are good even though I've heard others quoting that they didn't care for them.Also enjoy the music that starts up whenever the aliens start coming in for the kill.An hour can EASILY pass by when you play Body Harvest.A good game to own.

well it starts off your this dude with orange battle armor on.youre traveling time to stop these giant bug/cyborg thingies from taking over.you get all the regular standard weopons like pistol,rifle,shotgun,bazooka,explosives etc.1st your in greece.you roam the desert,operate tanks,fight bugs,blow stuff up,blast mountainsides apart,fly jets,blow stuff up,go to atlantis,find runes,nuke bugs with a sun shield and much much more!then its onto the rain forest in java.here theres lots of lava to avoid.i think the graphics here are beautiful.theres some cool boats,lots of cool planes.HERES A SPOILER:well i wouldnt call it one.theres this one particuraly tricky part on this board where unless you try to kill yourself,you wont see how to get past.im only telling this so you dont get stalled here like i did.your objective will be to find a way around mount rua rua.youll go way up this mtn and fight off a army of bugs sent by the man in black.once killed there is no obvious way to go.you must inch right up to the very edge of the cliff.there is a path leading downward right in between 2 large pools of lava.takeit to the temple.anyhow,next you go to america in the 60s.the cars all kick butt but no hippies,or love ins or partying,or................you sure this is the 60s?the 1st board here is lots of fun.theres stunt cars with which you must jump over valleys,boulder busting,nitro experiments,aliens,you have to navigate a scud missle.........its great!then onto antarctica..............no its siberia in the then future now past to battle more bugs.now theres zombies too.for fun you can grind them up in a combine.there cool about it though,theyll get up and get in your way some more.theres trains,hover crafts,mutagen[maybe this is the board with the scud].....but all the fun stops here.the last board is im-freaking-possible without cheating.there are monsters who require being hit like 15-30 times with rockets wholl swarm you in packs of 30.or in other words,youre meat within seconds no matter how cool you think you are.so just put on the game shark and go to work.this game could be described as say duke nukem meets amorines or maybe starship troopers meets return of the jedi.[what with the shield generaters and all].a great game with lots and lots of diversity.you cant get bored!

I have only played this game once. But from what I could tell it pretty fun and challenging. the first couple of levels are a little confusing at first but then as you go on into the levels they begin to make more sense. Although this game can be kind of confusing it later turns out to be a whole lot-o-fun.

As Adam Drake you go back in time to stop an alien force from totally destroying the human race. You have a colorful array of weapons and about 70 different vehicles at your disposel. But over-all, the story-line is a little predictable, and the objectives are a little frustrating, but it is a pretty cool game.

Although the Nintendo 64 is an outdated gaming system, ours is still going strong. Our teens asked for this game for Christmas, and they love it.

Rockstar games later went on to use the game engine and flight mechanics as well as the swimming and other parts of his game to improve what most of you would refer to as GTA:SA and GTA:4, one could be labored to suggest that this game allowed and was the father of said games. In the gaming industry it happens often that one game either spawns or helps improve the industry standards and this game thou over looked did more for the gaming world then most figure or see.

This game is to GTA, as Ultima Underworld is to Fallout 3, and that is to say they are the for runners that improved future games. I suggest if your looking for good harmless violence without human on human violence I recommend this one if you still use your N64. I would point out, that Human deaths that you allow or preform increase a ticking total and once you get to many you fail the level. So the game even goes so far as to not allow it, I will also add this game has one of the largest number of flying vehicles and ground vehicles and even boats and the likes of almost any game I have ever played in my entire life.

this game takes you threw the past, prescent, and future. it is real fun you get to drive all diffrent vehicales at diffrent times like when you are in the future you get to drive lambos and othe sweet cars. in the game you are a robot sent threw time to get earth to become normal again like it was in the beginning. I recommend that you buy this game you will probably get you eye's glued in to the television for playing it so much you may play it so much that you do not get your homework done well that is all that i have to tell you about that game so just buy it and enjoy it.

thanks for reading my comments about the game

Time hero preventing alien harvests. Different time lines = different vehicles.
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I find this game was very well thought out. The harvesting wall alone adds very much to the story. (A shield boundary that you can't pass.) As you progress through the game you get newer weapons and vehicles of that time period. Its rewarding when you stumble across a tank and then in turn wreak havoc on all aliens that you come to. Planes,boats,bikes, firetrucks you name it this game has that vehicle.

This game sounds great also. YOu can hear the rifle reverb, all vechicles sound different and it has very interesting mood music.
This game is very interactive which is why I like it so much. As you beat bosses and levels you can wrap back any time you want. A simple touch is that you can turn on or off all candles,lanterns,torches and lights in the buildings. You have to pull switches block windmills and at one point, use a fire truck to put out a fire.
Ripping through the jungle in your jeep.. OHHH sheeet. to fast. You ditch it into a pond. There is one less jeep you can drive.

This game is an orginal game idea that always earns bonus points. And it was done very well.
To sum it up. I like the levels, all the vechiles, the graphics of mutalating a alien with a maching gun on the tank. The puzzles aspect. Its great.

Some people are just a little to tough on this game. It reminds me of starship troopers so much.
A very worthy classic. 4 1/2