#DIE HARD TRILOGY WIKIPEDIA FULL#
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The graphics in this part of the game are detailed but the 3D engine does not seem overly impressive. The environment is generally very interactive, for example the cars in the parking lot can be blown up and the glass and wall panels in the interior sections can be shot out. You begin in a parking lot, progress through the reception and office areas, before finally ending up on the roof of the building.

#DIE HARD TRILOGY WIKIPEDIA FULL#

The full 3D levels are all very well detailed. What really makes this part of the game is the locations. However, there are an awful lot of them and it is relatively easy to get into trouble. The terrorists come in various shapes and sizes, but most are quite easily outwitted and dispatched. You begin armed with only a lowly pistol but a wide range of weapons can be picked up from around the game area. Thankfully you can redefine the keys and after a while the controls can be mastered.

#DIE HARD TRILOGY WIKIPEDIA PC#

On a PC keyboard, it degenerates into a bit of a mess. On aВ PlaystationВ control pad, this was probably quite intuitive. As well as the usual movement keys, you can roll to either side, side step, jump, fire your gun, change what grenades you are using, and throw grenades. At first it appears that you need three hands. The controls are fairly fiddly as they involve quite a few keys, some of which are in quite strange positions. As you blow away the last terrorist on each floor, a bomb is activated which you have to find before you can progress to the next level. Each level consists of a floor of the building. ItвЂ™s not a bad idea for a game and it captures the essence of the original film rather well. The basic вЂstoryвЂ™ is that you have to work your way up all the floors of the building which the terrorists have taken over, rescuing hostages and defusing the odd bomb on the way. ItвЂ™s a third person shoot em up, much likeВ Fade to BlackВ and a little bit likeВ Tomb Raider. Die Hard The first of the three games is based on the originalВ Die HardВ film.

The whole point of this quite lengthy section is that you need a decent PC to playВ Die Hard TrilogyВ but if youвЂ™ve got the latest technology then youвЂ™ll find itвЂ™s well supported. I had to settle for a strange 400Г—300 graphics mode but it was still quite good and I even managed to push it up to 640Г—400 without the game becoming unplayable. Basically if youвЂ™ve got a P200 MMX with a flash graphics card, youвЂ™re in for a treat. However, the game supportsВ Direct 3DВ and therefore presumably will work with the majority of 3D accelerators. ItвЂ™s not clear whether this is a fault withВ Die Hard TrilogyВ or my graphics card. I was devastated to find that my ATI Graphics card refused to work properly with the game.

Having selectedВ Direct 3DВ support, I was ready to go. However, there was the good oldВ ATI 3D Expression CardВ to fall back on. I was quite impressed to see support for the funky new MMX chips but then quite disappointed to remember that my Pentium didnвЂ™t support it. вЂBingoвЂ™, I thought as a second screem popped up with options to turn on 3D Graphics Card and MMX support. Just as I was about to reduce the detail on everything, I noticed that there was a further menu of вЂadvancedвЂ™ options. Having miserably failed to run the game in itвЂ™s top detail mode I went back to the set-up menu. I wouldnвЂ™t even begin to dream about running this game on anything less than a P100 and a P133 is really a bare minimum for beginning to get decent graphical performance. If you want to playВ Die Hard TrilogyВ youвЂ™re going to need quite a fair whack of PC power. I proceeded into the game and my P133 was brought tumbling to its knees. When faced with these options I foolishly decided to try out 800Г—600 with full detail. There are also sliders to select how far into the horizon the graphics engine draws, how accurate the perspective is and how much detail the game uses. The screen modes supported basically depend on the amount of memory on your graphics card, but my 2MB card allowed anywhere up to 800Г—600. However, before you get into the action itвЂ™s worth taking a moment to set up the graphics options. When you start the game you are presented with a menu from which to chose which of the three films to play. First, a quick technical note InstallingВ Die Hard TrilogyВ is a breeze thanks to the combined might ofВ Windows 95В andВ DirectX. Each game in turn shall be considered below. Surely youвЂ™ll end up with three weak games rather than one strong one? However,В Die Hard TriologyВ works remarkably well. Bundling three games together in one package initially sounds like a bad idea. The combination of violence and terrorists with strange European accidents provides excellent material for an action game.В Die Hard TrilogyВ is a set of three games based on the three films. TheВ Die HardВ series of films are somewhat obvious candidates for being the basis of a computer game.

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