Die Hard: Vendetta, Die Hard Making Its Way To The Gamecube!

By Jay Hicks

     Just like any other movie to video game, Die Hard has had it’s share of good and bad titles. Die Hard on the original NES was horrible, Die Hard Trilogy for the Playstation and Saturn were great, DHT 2 for Playstation on the other hand has a horrible re-hash of the first one, and the recent Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza for PC was excellent. Now the question is can the Gamecube capture some of that action with Die Hard: Vendetta.

     In DH: V you can play as everyone’s favorite butt kicking cop John McClaine or his daughter Lucy in a entirely new storyline. In the game John has retired from police work and his daughter has just graduated from police academy. On her first assignment, she is kidnapped by the son of Hans, the Terrorist from the first Die Hard movie and it’s up to McClaine to save his daughter.

     The graphics so far are unbelievably amazing. Buildings, objects, characters, have great detail put into them so far. Plus the gameplay for DH: V has been a little vamped from ordinary FPS. Like with Perfect Park or Thief, in this FPS you rely more on stealth than on walking in and shooting anything that moves. This game should be a relief for those tired of Duke Nukem or something of that manner.

     So far DH: V looks like it will be a great Gamecube FPS title next to Metroid Prime and Perfect Dark Zero. So far DH: V is a single player game but by the time the game is released in fall of this year a multi player option should be added to the fray. All in all it’s good to see that Die Hard finally receives games worthy of the movie title in front of it. And who knows? Maybe if this game is successful, Hollywood might give us Die Hard 4…. and hopefully it won’t suck.

     In my opinion I say buy this game when it is released, take it home, and enjoy some 1-to-4 player fragging. I know when I get to play this the first thing I’ll do is scream YIPPIE-KY-AII MOTHER #$%&#@ from the top of my lungs. Chances are you’ll probably same the same thing..when you keep dying in a particular spot over and over again.

     Now to continue waiting for Resident Evil and Eternal Darkness on Gamecube…yep.