Die Hard Trilogy (PS1) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
125A playthrough of Fox Interactive's 1996 license-based action game for the Sony PlayStation, Die Hard Trilogy.
Each of the three game modes have been played through to a 100% compete rating. They are shown at the following times:
1:18 Die Hard (third-person shooter)
1:40:45 Die Hard 2: Die Harder (light-gun shooter)
2:26:45 Die Hard with a Vengeance (racing)
3:18:05 The most ludicrously epic final battle of all-time
Playing DHT, even more than Final Fantasy VII a year later, was a watershed moment for me. Playing it in 1996, Die Hard Trilogy really made me feel like I was playing on a "32-bit" next-gen system. Unlike any game before it, Die Hard Trilogy really harnessed the power of the newer hardware to deliver a game that simply wasn't possible on earlier platforms.
And even better, despite the fact that it is actually three entirely separately games (and anyone that knows games knows that this is typically a sign of bad things to come), each from totally different genres, it's one of the best games of its generation ever released. Not only did Probe's (the developer) prowess with the hardware surpass titles from years later with super fluid, high quality graphics (just check out the details and the variety of objects in the tower offices, or the high-resolution textures used for faces in Die Harder), but each of the games were among the best that their respective genres had to offer at the time.
The PlayStation version is the original, but the game was ported to the Sega Saturn and the PC. However, the PlayStation version is still the best one, with a fluidity that cannot be matched by the Saturn, and showing many effects that are missing from the PC version (despite its better framerate and higher available resolutions through DirectX). The window transparencies in part one are particularly telling. Look at the PS1 and the PC versions and compare them for yourself - the differences in some places are pretty dramatic.
Finally, the sheer amount of graphic violence on display is pretty staggering. Seeing a child vaporize in the explosion of a car bomb, or turning an innocent bystander into a literal mist of blood with a shotgun blast has rarely been this visceral. The wipers coming on to wipe splatters of pedestrians from the windscreen in Die Hard With a Vengeance was a particularly nice touch. And to think, Lieberman's Mortal Kombat/Night Trap crusade was just a few short years before this game's release.
Die Hard Trilogy isn't just one of my favorite PS1 games. It's among my favorite games of all-time. For the love of god, if you haven't played it - help yourself. Play it. You will feel more whole as a result ;D
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