Customer Reviews

Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza

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

 

 

There's a lot to like and a lot to dislike in this game. First of all it sticks very closely to the way Nakatomi Plaza looks and sounds so you feel like you really are there. The music is a lot like that in the movie and adds atmosphere. But there are only like 2 tracks! The blood splatter effects are quite cool but shooting a bad guy is the only way to kill him. In this sense the game is VERY linear. There is absolutely no freedom. You HAVE to do what the game wants you to do. Which is really stupid considering the effort that has obviously went into crafting each and every floor of Nakatomi Plaza.

There are a lot more than just 12 terrorists here. Obviously the game has to be beefed up to about 300 to make it more exciting and a few new scenarios are added (And some stuff, like the media attention of the siege, totally ignored). It was also very annoying to see the FBI Chopper STILL flying around after the roof has blown up. I guess this was just a cheap way to avoid a cinematic.

The voice acting is also rather poor. It makes the cinematics hard to watch sometimes. And what's the point of having a CB radio (a cunning excuse to plug a certain product) when it is only used during cinematics and NEVER when you want.

In the ancient Die Hard Trilogy you got lots of weapons. But in this all you get is the ordinary gun, some flash grenades and 4 machine guns. The best of which are sparsely featured in the later levels. You can't even get into fist fights. So the fight with Karl is non-existent. All you do is shoot him. Wow!

And chances for really cool stuff have been ignored. How cool would it be to chuck bad guys thru the windows or off the roof or down the lift shafts? Doesn't happen. Even you jump off the roof yourself it just cuts to 'game over'.

But the worst thing is the ending. It's nothing like the movie, boring and dull. It takes a lot of patience to get thru and then...nothing happens. A cheap, tiny cinematic follows and the game returns to the title screen. Come on! That's it?

By only if you are a fan of the movie. For the casual gamer this is dated stuff.

This game is based on the movie down to the lines. The graphics are great and the game play is easy to learn. What do you expect from a game that I did not pay much for. I love the movie so the game is a fun way to play the part of John Mclane. You get cool weapons to play with and the detail of the levels are quite good. You have to think a little to get thru each level. It not just a typical linear game. You have to look for certain things to move on. Ok, the voices are not like the movie, which is awkward, but you get used to it. Did you think Bruce Willis would do that anyways? You do get the real voice of Al the cop, played by the "Family Matters" tv show father, Reginald Vel Johnson. Its a real good time. Go order it now.

Let me star out with saying that this game is really very fun and I am rather surprised at how badly it got rated. When I received a demo of this game I found it partly origional because of the three health meaters (heart, starmina, and moral)and me being a big Die Hard fan liked how closely it followed the origial story line, but after some surfing the web, I realized that on average this game got a 2/5 from most all major game companies. This confused me, so I played more of the demo and ended up beatig it. It was so fun that I went out and bought Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza that very same day. To rap up, if you loved Half Life, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament, and Die Hard 1, 2, and 3, then my suggestion to you is to disreguard the other ratings and buy this game.

the story very closely follows the movie it was based on, and in that respect I am more than pleased however, I do have one complaint/ warning for anyone looking to buy this game, for some people, while being run on a windows 7 PC all character models have their limbs and (only in officer Al Powel's case, as far as I could tell) eyes being stretched towards the center of the map area that is loaded at any given time, meaning very odd-looking cone shapes were appearing through the walls

so if you have an older machine (XP might work, in fact it probably will) it should run perfectly other wise expect some hidden enemies to be ruined and expect some supposedly obvious enemies to be quite hard to hit, As well as officer mclain's weapons not having any hands attached to them.

overall I give it a 5/10 the limb loss is too distracting from the over all gameplay.

This game really doesn't have a replay value as like Medal of honor:AA, one reason is theres no multi player mode where you can play others online, that woulda been cool. As for the graphics goes, it was done very nicely and clean. I guess what killed it for me is the additional levels added to the game didn't really if none at all, fit the movie senario. But they were still fun to explore. Like many have already mention, the ending was terrible. Think god I use a god mode cheat all throughout the game, b/c if you swet it out throughout this game your gonna get a rude awaking when you see the simple to short ending cutscene. The only interesting thing about this game is the attention to detail of the levels, and it was fun to explore them.

The game is designed very well with a beautiful layout of Nakatomi plaza. But the game has many limitations. First, all you can do is shoot the bad guys. No other physical contact is possible. Second, you have to follow the movie to move on to the next scene. And third, The ending is horrible! After all the work you out into it, all you getis a little cinematic at the end. Then the game goes back to the Main Screen. I feel it was a poor attempt to make a game out of a great movie. It can be fun, but I found it more frustrating than anything else.

When I first got this game I thought it was very cool. I played it 'til the end, and now I just started replaying it. Good. Very well made. The replayability isn't that great, unless you wait a long time and forget everything that happens. Hiding Hans's face was kind of a joke for the first half of the game. Very repetitive, though. My expressions while playing changed from: "Yippee kai yay" to: "Surprise, surprise, another terrorist." All of 'em pretty much look the same. The game does have it's moments, though. Like the feature of being able to live that scene of jumping off the roof was pretty darn cool. All in all, since this game is [cheap], buy it, I liked it.

"Die Hard: Nakatmoi Plaza" isn't riding the cutting edge of first-person shooters. The graphics are functional, and recreate the setting of the film surprisingly well, though the textures and furnishings can feel a bit too limited. As a matter of fact, the game suffers from some fairly poor production values all around. The in-game music feels like it was ripped from a bad Cinemax action pic (it is not, for some reason, the score from the original "Die Hard," nor does it even mimic this). The voice-acting is mostly atrocious, especially when stacked against the movie portrayals. The game's cinematics are there simply for those who haven't seen "Die Hard" (shame on you!), and are pointless for those who are familiar with the film. On top of this, the game's action sequences can range from surprisingly fun to outright dull. Shooting terrorists never really changes all that much, no matter what new hardware they're packing. As for you, you have to make due with a pistol and a machine gun for the first half of the game before you actually stumble upon some heavier, and more satisfying, firepower. "Nakatomi Plaza" also suffers from some poor scripting - sometimes you'll be asked to guard a hostage who never does what he's supposed to. Despite the game's many flaws, though, it's a decent diversion for the price. Even if you are cursing in frustration one moment, you'll still find yourself playing the next. The game manages to surpass the sum of its parts - especially if you're a "Die Hard" fan.

...P>"Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza" is the title, and the game follows the events of the first film (The best one) by ear...well, almost by ear. It takes place on Christmas Eve, where New York Detective John McClane is visiting Los Angeles to see his estranged wife and kids. However, while visiting his wife on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Plaza building in Century City, German terrorists seize the building control and take the employees hostage. John escapes fortunately and that's where the game begins.

First, The Pros: The game is very action packed and actually feel like you're in a hostage situation on a high rise skyscraper. Almost everything from the building in the film is digitally animated into the game and it looks like the real thing. Every memorable line from the film, from [...] (yes, it's surprisingly uncut) to "[...]". The graphics in the game are surperb, compared to other games like "Soldier of Fortune" and "Unreal Tournament". But the best thing about that game is actor Reginald Veljohnson reprises his role as the voice of Sgt. Al Powell, John's unseen guardian angel cop from below. I found this to much of a treat to fans of the movie.

The Cons: The game is way too slow in game speed. Even with high powered video cards, like my Nvidia GeForce 4, the game constantly freezes up for a few seconds, especially when you die or during some firefights. Also, the main propagranda of the release of the game was that "The game is kinda like a Director's Cut to 'Die Hard'", meaning that new scenes where to be played. Sounds good, eh? Not really. Actually, it's worse than it sounds. In a way, it ruins the storyline almost, because you want to be John McClane, but not do the same amount of work? You spend half of the game down in the sewers and Parking garage below Nakatomi, and frankly (exclude the pun) it stinks. At one point, the LAPD SWAT members break into the Plaza through the sewers, and immediately attack YOU instead of most of the terrorist. Can't those guys read badges? Also, in the movie, there are only like 8 or 7 terrorists in the building. But to add more action to the game, the programmers add about, oh, 200 terrorists! And the firefights get very tedious after a while.

"DH:NP" has it's downs, but the reason why I gave it 4 stars because no matter how difficult and obnoxious the levels get, I still love playing it because it stays very true to the storyline...sort of.

To sum up the game....ENJOYING! I truly had a good time playing this game. I appreciate a game that mixes thought-provoking puzzles and shooting bad guys. Playing a sole-shooting game can get old fast! Listening to the dialog of all of the characters was quite entertaining and I often found myself giving a little chuckle. Sure, it would have been nice to have the live voice of Bruce Willis playing Mr.Cowboy, but his impersonator does a fine job and you catch yourself secretly applauding the impersonator when he has his moments of sounding just like Bruce Willis.

Graphics are good, no complaints comparable to all the other games available. It would have been nice to have a bit more enteraction, such as, running past a mirror and seeing your reflection....since your character is first-person it would have been nice to see if your character looked like Bruce Willis! The game is priced right, you're not having to pay for over enteratction or countless inventory of artiliary.

If you enjoyed the action movie, you will definitely enjoy the game. The movie is worth seeing and in comparison, the game is worth playing!!!