Die Hard Trilogy 2

by Playstation

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• ASIN: B00001ZWXF
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 24, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,108 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Product Description

Vegas, baby, Vegas! Action game fans will want to gamble on the latest action-packed installment of the popular Die Hard series. While the Amazon.com editorial team has not yet had a chance to fully review the much-hyped Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas, we're intrigued by Fox Interactive's promise of varied gameplay and fast-action fun. Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas aims to please with diverse game segments that test your driving, shooting, or action-adventure gaming skills.

Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas also boasts enemies that respond intelligently to your aim-and-fire assault. Enemies retaliate carefully against attacks instead of walking carelessly into your gunfire. They also pursue and attack aggressively, rather than randomly. We're hoping that Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas is worth the gamble.

GameSpot Review

Die Hard Trilogy 2 only seems like an incredibly strange name for a game until you stop to think about how obvious it is for a developer to want to make a sequel to one of the best titles to have appeared on the PlayStation. In it, you're once again placed in the shoes of Bruce Willis' same-named film character John McClane as he takes on another group of "terrorists from another country." How can the same thing happen to the same guy four times? Bad luck or sequelitis, you decide. As the original was, DHT2 is three games in one: a third-person shooter, a gun game, and an "extreme driving game." This time, however, you can play through each of these sections separately or through a story mode, which strings them along in an order somewhat resembling a plot. In other words, you can play a gun level and then go to a driving level before coming back to another gun level. The third-person levels follow McClane as he blasts his way through criminal hordes using machine guns, shotguns, and stun guns, saving the occasional hostage along the way. These stages are very similar to the third-person levels from the first Die Hard Trilogy, even if they aren't nearly as long or difficult. They even look much like those stages, albeit strained through n-Space's Duke Nukem: Time to Kill engine, and you view them from a perspective slightly closer to the ground. The gun-game stage runs along the same lines as before. You're transported through various environments on rails like those of an amusement-park ride, and you must shoot terrorists who pop out at you while at the same time avoid firing on innocents who happen to get in the way. Instances where enemies appear on opposite ends of the screen at once are much more rare in this version, and you seem to have more time to shoot before being shot. Graphically, it's a more cluttered redux of the similar section from the last game. Since the original came out more than three years ago, it looks somewhat dated, although not enough to overly impinge on the gameplay. This stage supports the Konami light gun well, while the GunCon peripheral doesn't seem quite as accurate as it does in Namco's own titles. The least appealing section of Die Hard Trilogy 2 is the driving stage, in which you race around town smashing into enemy cars and running over bombs. Though the stage isn't awful, the car doesn't handle as tightly as it should, and the entire experience is simply not that much fun to play. If you're working through the story mode, you'll look forward to finishing the driving levels so you can get back to the other stages, which can be fairly entertaining at times. The level of difficulty is toned down a notch from the first DHT in all three sections, yet the game is still fairly challenging. Sure, it's got some knocks against it. The graphics aren't exactly first rate, the soundtrack is made up of that metallic sort of canned techno that turns people off to electronic music, and the voice-acting calls to mind amateur impersonation night at the local improv. But it somehow retains a certain degree of playable charm. While it doesn't stack up well when compared with the original game, Die Hard Trilogy 2 does manage to outclass recent like-minded titles like EA's Tomorrow Never Dies, and it provides a nice fix for those who own PlayStation light guns. It may be a better rental than a purchase, but those not expecting a lot out of the game may find themselves pleasantly surprised.--Joe Fielder--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VIVA LAS VEGAS BABY! YEA!, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Die Hard Trilogy 2 (Video Game)

YES! Fox Interactive has done it again! An Excellent Die Hard game. Exelent graphics, and a new feature to the games, Movie mode. I'd say with this game they should come out with a new Die hard Trilogy Movie.

Once again John McLain is on suspension, and is feeling realy low until his good buddy Kenny Baker calles him from his office at the Mesa Grande Prison in Las Vegas, he invites him to a party because Kenny is the new warden at the prison. That is the plot, He then goes to Vegas and then he get's involved.

Match wit's with enemies who survey their surroundings, then react to your actions in THIRD PERSON ACTION / ADVENTURE mode.

Put the pedel to the metel in the EXTREME DRIVING mode, testing your sharpest reflexes. And, Arm yourself with the firepower of 12 differant weapons in SHARPSHOOTER mode.

All in all this is a pretty good game, besides the Blood on the walls after you kill some one. Well you find out for your self. Play It!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who Wouldn't Want To Be John McLane?, February 28, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Die Hard Trilogy 2 (Video Game)

First off I loved the original Die Hard Trilogy simply because it was a good stress reliever. The same could definitely be said about Viva Las Vegas. However the reason that brought the game down to 4 stars is that the game play gets incredibly repetitive. If you want to compare it to the original DHT game you would notice several differences the first being the graphics, the graphics are smooth and you can tell what everything is. The plot line moves along at a Die Hard pace, which means it works and it works fast. A really cool idea that was put into the game by developers N-Space was the ability to choose whether you wanted to go through the game doing the three genres( 3rd person shooter, first person shooter, and driving)individually or to go through with the plot being advanced by movies and having different genres intertwining. All told this is a fabulous game that should keep the average gamer from having a social life for a couple of months.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yippee Ki Yay! Again..., May 4, 2001

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Mo2Az (Lee's Summit, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Die Hard Trilogy 2 (Video Game)

This game is pretty good. The first one is better. The graphics have improved in this one and the story is fine but the game is just not as fun. Also, the controls are not as good as they were in the first one. The story is all about John McClane (of course) who gets asked by a good friend to come down to Vegas to visit his casino. Unfortunately for John, trouble follows him once again. Buy this game if you have played or own the first game.