Hybrid Heaven

by Nintendo

Product Features

• great game for teens

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001X50U
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: August 31, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,522 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Hybrid Heaven apparently derives its name from the different genres involved, including role-playing games (RPGs), action, and fighting. This dynamic combination is most notable in the game's battle mode. Enter a room containing an enemy, and battle mode is activated, presenting you with action-interrupting onscreen choices to fight, defend, or evade. Each of these choices has many associated subchoices, drilling down to the nth degree and, in effect, squashing the game's enjoyment value.

The story, conveyed in the game's painfully long opening cinematic sequence (and not found in the manual), features an American secret agent who walks around his apartment naked, and is then shot in a New York subway. Strangely, players take control of the shooter, guiding him through sparsely populated hallways in an underground facility that breeds human clones and other biological anomalies.

This game is slow and tedious, but may appease RPG fans who have been looking for some dodecahedron dice-rolling fun on their Nintendo 64. An expansion pack can be used for a higher resolution mode and a letterboxed view. The game does have some merit, being a unique title and attempting to tackle a grandiose plot line, but in the end, Hybrid Heaven is a bit too convoluted. --Jeff Young

Pros:

• Interesting mix of game genres
• An odd, yet intricate storyline may have lost a bit of congruity in translation from Japanese

Cons:

• Slow pace
• Strange interface
• Unexciting graphics

Product Description

This is the game Hybrid Heaven for the Nintendo 64. This is cartridge only and is used or preplayed. All of our N64 nintendo games are cleaned comma tested and guaranteed to work. We stand by our products and offer a 60 day guarantee. If a game does not work within 60 days from the time you receive it we will gladly exchange it for you

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hybrid Heaven - an RPG that made a unique and daring blend., April 4, 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: Hybrid Heaven (Game Cartridge)

This game is a rather unique type of RPG. Much of the story plot is sparse, but easy to follow. The labyrinth that the main character has to go through is a hugh, multi-leveled UFO. The battle engine (which seems to be what the game is mostly about) goes about combat in a very leisurely, and lengthy manner. Part of the time, you are constantly dancing with the opponent while waiting for your strength meter to recharge. Then, when either you or your opponent engage an attack, a menu pops up, permitting you to choose your move. There is also a unique offense/defense level on different body parts. Say you take too many blows to your left leg. Suddenly, that leg will be too weak to do kicks with. It will also be an easy spot for the enemy to deliver painful blows to. In fact, you and your opponent generally have six different areas that can take damage. Legs, arms, torso and head. And, in the process of combat, you will gain new maneuvers and strengthen different areas of yourself, depending on the usage of the maneuver. Say you constantly use right uppercuts. That arm will gain strength. Though, by gaining all these maneuvers, you tend to make the menu of moves run on forever. You can also use weapons you find along the way to combat with. Sadly, once you get past the combat engine, labyrinth and story plot ideas, the game starts feeling like a wide open field with all the players missing. Much of the time, you will be running through large hallways, shooting at the occasional defense bots, trying to locate the key writing machines and opening doors and chests of several sorts. And, the rooms where your hand-to-hand battles take place in, are usually against biologically engineered monsters who seem to use remotely operated transporters to enter with. There doesn't seem to be much offered in the way of brain teasers. Basically, you are either running through nearly empty hallways, fighting an enemy via hand-to-hand or watching a movie sequence. This game is not for everyone. Try renting it first. And, if you like it, buy it. I'd also recommend obtaining a dedicated memory card for this game...as it likes eating up 56 pages to save a game.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, November 10, 1999

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: Hybrid Heaven (Game Cartridge)

The game Hybrid Heaven delivers a whole adventure with fights that will make rpg fans want more until they reach their limit then break it. With high action fights and a plot so intense it will beat some bestseller books! This game will take you underground Manhattan during Desember 1999 where a race of clones and mutated beasts that call themselves the hybrids that are trying to stop a peace treaty between the U.S. and Russia by replacing the U.S. president with aclone and put other clone in high authority and take over the world. So how do you know who is a hybrid and who is not...you don't! This game plunges you into nine large areas of fights, puzzles, and a twisting plot that willdeliver an explosion that boggles the mind. With this game you will have:

Eye-popping hi-res graphics and cinematic demo scenes bring the world of Hybrid Heaven to life.

Learn different fighting styles and moves from your opponents, and develop and edit your own deadly combos.

Encounter over 50 different sinister creatures to battle.

Uncover the mysteries of the hybrid race as you journey through incredibly detailed sectors of New York City's underground.

Challenge your friends inside the arena with the intense 2-player vs. mode.

The multiplayer can pit two people against each other with characters you have faced in the single player game. The creature battle is another great feature that'll pit you against the computer in battle after battle after battle. The game requires a memory pak to save your game and is expansion pak enhanced for better graphics. This game has the teen (13+) rating for bloodless violence without screams of pain or bone crunching(parents just in case your wondering at the end of a fight the body just hits the ground and disapears in a matter of 3 seconds). This game must've got the teen rating just because of some the moves and all the opponents you can fight. With a combination of fighting or wrestling moves, weapons, brilliant graphics, a plot that will keep you guessing, and much more that I didn't mention Hybrid Heaven is a roller coaster ride that will test your abilities and beyond!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and original, January 26, 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: Hybrid Heaven (Game Cartridge)

The combat system is what sets this game up. I won't get into the story a lot, because you need to experience it to understand it. The combat is a combination of RPG style and action style. You control your movement directly, and then choose various attack or defense options from some in-game menues. It's hard to get a hang of, but a lot of fun once you do, with each area of the body leveling up separately. I'd reccommend renting before buying, however, because the combat and story may not be for you.