Retrospective: Die Hard Trilogy

By Martyn Carroll Published 8 May, 2011

What you talkin' bout? Willis.

There's a scene in Die Hard 4.0 where John McClane propels a car into the air and brings down an enemy helicopter. I remember sitting in the cinema, watching this ridiculousness unfold and hearing audible groans from the audience.

Part of me was cringing. Part of me was thinking, "Hang on! I'm sure I've seen this happen before..."

It became clear to me moments later. This was a scene from Probe Entertainment's Die Hard Trilogy, the video game which debuted on the PlayStation in 1996 and featured a separate game based on each of the first three films.

The Die Hard With a Vengeance portion sees you speeding around NYC in a taxicab, trying to defuse bombs against the clock. In the final stage you have to bash the boss's helicopter out of the sky by hitting a series of jumps.

Maybe the Die Hard 4.0 scriptwriters had played the game and included the scene as a nod to the guys at Probe? Die Hard Trilogy was, after all, one of the most popular and well known titles in the PlayStation's early years.

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Probe didn't have permission to use Bruce Willis' likeness, so they just went for the slightly balding bloke in a dirty vest look.

The game is memorable because it's so brilliantly bonkers and over the top it makes the films look tame in comparison. As such, the car versus helicopter scene in the game seemed perfectly acceptable, whereas in Die Hard 4.0 it's laughable.

The game starts as it means to go on, with the carnage level cranked right up. The Die Hard portion is a third-person shooter set in the Nakatomi Plaza. Before you've even made it out of the car park beneath the building you're knee deep in dead bodies, there's blood everywhere and people are running around screaming and on fire.

The action continues in the same vein as you move up the building, floor by floor, taking down terrorists and rescuing hostages. Every so often you encounter a boss. You really can't miss him as the word 'BOSS' is floating above his head in large red letters. The game is about as subtle as McClane himself.

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The infamous blood on the windscreen moment in all its gory glory.

For Die Harder, the style switches to a first-person, on-rails shooter set in Dulles International Airport. Here the gameplay is even more frantic - the waves of onrushing enemies never let up for a second.

Sega's Virtua Cop is an obvious influence and the game does support a light-gun controller as well as the official PlayStation mouse (remember that?). But whichever control method you use, Die Harder is a tough challenge. It's almost impossible to reach the later levels without using one of the built-in cheats.

Die Hard With a Vengeance is tougher still. The time limit you have to reach each bomb is super strict and a single wrong turn or unexpected accident often leads to failure. It maybe the most difficult of the three offerings, but it's also the most fun as you can just burn around the city, crashing into stuff and watching the game's crazy physics come into play.

Plus it features one of those golden video game moments that everyone who's played it instantly remembers. That's right: driving into pedestrians, accidentally on purpose, and watching their bodies flip into the air as McClane quips, "Sorry pal!"

Even better: switch to the in-car view and watch as blood splatters onto the windscreen and briefly obscures your view before the wipers wash it away. Not since Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum has mowing down innocent people been so hilariously wrong.

As with many early PlayStation games, the 3D visuals haven't aged too well. The lumpy, polygonal people are particularly comical. But Die Hard Trilogy remains a supremely fun game that shoehorns in an enormous amount of value.

If the three games had been released separately, you'd imagine that each one would score around 6/10. So whacking them all on one disc as a single release was beyond generous.

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Play Hard. Die Hard. In fact, die quite a lot. This game was nails.

A few years back I was lucky enough to meet up with Simon Pick and James Duncan, two former Probe employees who were part of the Die Hard Trilogy team. The pair have been in the industry since the 8-bit days and have worked on loads of games, yet both revealed that Die Hard Trilogy was the one title on their CVs that always received the most interest. "You did that?!", people would ask, before immediately bringing up the blood on the windscreen bit.

I did exactly the same thing and they told me how the game's development was a real kitchen sink affair. Members of the team were constantly throwing ideas in the mix: "Let's blow this up!", "Let's set fire to that!"

There was no development document as such. Probe boss Fergus McGovern was happy to let them get on with it and Twentieth Century Fox wrapped nothing in red tape.

But I knew all this already, as it's all up on the screen in plain view. Die Hard Trilogy is transparent and unpretentious. It's clearly the product of impassioned developers given the freedom to go off and do whatever the Hell they want.

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With three different gaming styles, Die Hard Trilogy was a present for everyone.

Pick and Duncan did tell me one surprising thing, though. At Probe it was actually a tale of two trilogies, as Alien Trilogy was in development in the same building at the same time.

The Alien team was larger and more experienced, and the general feeling was that their game was more likely to succeed. The Die Hard team was even nicknamed 'Try Hard' by some, due to its hugely ambitious plan to create three distinct games.

By comparison, Alien Trilogy was solely a first-person shooter. While it was decent enough and fairly atmospheric, it lacked the raw thrills and sheer variety of Die Hard Trilogy. Maybe the Alien team should have been dubbed 'Try Harder'...

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About Martyn Carroll

Martyn has been writing about video games since 1997. He launched Retro Gamer magazine in 2004 and has been typecast as a lover of rubbish old games ever since. His specialist subject is actually the Crabs novel of Guy N. Smith.

Read more articles from Martyn by visiting the Martyn Carroll archive page.

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  • bad09 #1 1 year ago

    Die Hard Trilogy was sex, it's that simple. I had so much fun on the driving section and the light gun (oh how I miss proper light gun games, bloody HD TVs!) section was a brilliant game. The TPS of the first section seemed poor at first but was deceptively fantastic.

    So many happy memories of that bundle of joy called the PS1, DHT is up there with the finest. They even made that sequel with new plots but it didn't have half the character of the original.

  • f01re #2 1 year ago

    One of my first ps1 games.

    2 & 3 were both ace but 1 was utter bobbins

  • simon50 #3 1 year ago

    Loved this game. Always used to play Die Hard 1 with the stick-men cheat enabled :D

  • Vortex808 #4 1 year ago

    Bizarrely, I can't remember playing 1 at all so I don't think it left much of an impression, yet remember the 2&3 ones vividly. They were really difficult too.

    Alien Trilogy was fun too, the face-huggers caused some real panic occasionally.

  • Graftonator #5 1 year ago

    Absolutely one of the best Playstation games. Bonkers and brilliant in equal measure.

    I think I played 1 the most but never completed any of them without cheating! Properly hard!

  • Ged42 #6 1 year ago

    'There's firing in the Terminal'

    Lost too many hours to the Die Harder part of the game, killing bad guys by shooting the ceiling tiles above them and finishing off stragglers with the awesome power of the explosive shotgun.

  • Gambit1977 #7 1 year ago

    So much fun! I had a gun for 2, that looked like it belonged on Judge Dredd :D

    The way the windscreen wipers came on when you ran over people. Amazing!

  • Craven #8 1 year ago

    Love to see a remake of this. I'll pretend the fourth film doesn't exist.

  • Ultrasoundwave #9 1 year ago

    Absolutely fantastic game at the time, would like to see more developers attempt to do three different games on one disk.

  • CaptainQuint #10 1 year ago

    "Sir this line is reserved for emergency calls only."

    "NO FUCKING SHIT, LADY! DO I SOUND LIKE I'M ORDERING A PIZZA?!

  • Sharzam #11 1 year ago

    I had a N64 instead, and i remember going around to friends houses and being massively jealous of this game as it really was an arcade distilled onto a disc. The only other game for PS which i remember so fondly was the early Crash Bandicoot. Mind you i had Goldeneye.

  • devil_badger #12 1 year ago

    I remember doing a cheat on number 3 to make your car jump ridiculously high. Twas awesome

  • sega #13 1 year ago

    Oh yes - groans in the cinema. Its fashionable to hate on the new films in an old series but I thought Die Hard 4. the new Indiana Jones, Rocky Balboa, Rambo and Tron Legacy have been awesome. I honestly fail to see what makes them terrible and I'm usually such a harsh critic.

    Anyway the part of this game I enjoyed the most was the light gun sections. I always used a joypad for it, though - does anyone know if it worked with the Saturn gun?

    Also seems trilogy games trended for a bit. Didn't we have Die Hard, Alien and Mortal Kombat trilogies around the same time?

  • richarddavies #14 1 year ago

    Agree with the earlier comments really. It's a genuine PSone classic this. Brilliant game. I remember a Die hard trilogy 2 came out later too. Not sure if it was good or not, never had that one.

  • berryl227 #15 1 year ago

    I loved this game! My house mate had bought a PS 1 which we shared in our lounge. Many happy nights coming back from the pub to play this game. My over riding memory is of die harder light gun game and

    "its not my day"

    being looped over and over.

    Happy days.

  • Waffleaber #16 1 year ago

    I remember playing this on my mates Saturn. The first game was indeed rubbish but thankfully he had Die Hard Arcade as well which was awesome.

  • PlugMonkey #17 1 year ago

    It's almost impossible to reach the later levels without using one of the built-in cheats.

    Pfff. Finished sans cheats. Using a joypad. Eventually. Ahhh, student days.

    Great game. Thanks for reminding me. I think I might go and track down a copy.

  • timewarp87 #18 1 year ago

    "Let me drive!"

    Great game, never completed it, but many a summer night round at a mates playing this. Funniest was one my mate dismantled the ps1 gun claiming it would work better, put his hand on the circuit of the gun and fried that and the player 1 port joypad port on the PS1

  • potiwilm #19 1 year ago

    'I GOT A MACHINE GUN'

    this game made he smile almost as much as earth defence force

  • Olemak #20 1 year ago

    Quarantine had windscreen splatter and wipers a few years earlier, if memory serves.

  • lucky_jim #21 1 year ago

    Die Hard Arcade on the Saturn was better! Although its link to the films was, er, tenuous.

  • Acrid #22 1 year ago

    Ah what great memories, DH2 was the hardest of the 3 games, I somehow managed to complete all 3 without cheating but then I had a lot more time on my hands back then.
    I'd completely forgotten about the last boss on With a Vengeance but it's all came flooding back to me now, racing around the containers at the docks trying to hit the launch's just right. Oh and people exploding on the score screen at the end of a level, what was that about?
    Happy days.

  • Jamiesan #23 1 year ago

    Completed 1 & 2 but 3 was hard as balls from what I remember.

    Is it me or did 2 have a kind of debug mode where you could edit the scripting of events and enemies? I'd quite like to get my teeth into that now that I know a bit more about how games work.

  • Pehmu #24 1 year ago

    Anyone remember the soundtrack? Jolly tunes.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnvudaEEiVc

  • rottingyoda #25 1 year ago

    Die hard 1 with explisive shotgun. Carnage.

    Has to be up there as one of my favourite ps titles. Certainly one of the most memorable!

  • Battlegoff #26 1 year ago

    this needs a xbla re-release, make it happen micro$oft! "Thats Mcclane! Get Him!"

  • GozuTennai #27 1 year ago

    This triggered massive nostalgia for me, shooting people on fire for extra 'mercy shot' points running out of the terminal. "sorry pal!"

    Wish I had a time machine so I could experience the ps1 all over again.

  • Zander #28 1 year ago

    So happy EG did a retrospective of this!

    One of those games i really didn't mind being hard. If you got frustrated with one of them you just switched. It really did feel like 3 complete games for the price of 1. Used to take turns on Die Harder with my mate and would love it if i got further than him :p

    Also when I first started playing it I thought Die Hard was the weakest but learnt to love it just like bad09.
    Edited by Zander at 08/05/11 @ 10:47

  • urban #29 1 year ago

    Damn I loved this game, they were perfect little games in their own right.

    Best movie video game tie in ever.

  • bburdett #30 1 year ago

    This game was so bloody brilliant, the cheats for the first game were pretty fun - such as giving the plants voices and shooting them. Would love for this to come out on XBL/PSN.

  • Talbot #31 1 year ago

    My aunt gave me this for Christmas when I was about 10. The 1st game in the tower was definitely my favourite one but I failed to complete it so many times that I had to resort to cheats (in the days where I rang up the cheat service - £1/m).... yeah!

  • AgentCool #32 1 year ago

    I remember buying a Predator light gun for the Saturn to play this.

    I still think the sensational Die Hard Arcade was better though. Must have played that through in co-op mode about 100 times.

  • Graveland #33 1 year ago

    I remember in the first game I used to make it one of my main aims to shoot EVERY window in the office block sections.

  • IneptPercy #34 1 year ago

    I remember the many hours spent playing this.

    Did anybody else use the cheat to get into the level editor on the second one. If you still have the game look it up, you can change the route and enemy placement etc.

  • Trigga_Tybalt #35 1 year ago

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  • Architect_z #36 1 year ago

    Wasnt as good as Die Hard Arcade on the Sega Saturn

  • captainrentboy #37 1 year ago

    Yep, loved this one too. I was 14 when it came out, and I played it to friggin death. Definitely finished all 3 many times over, without the need for cheats too, I must've been considerably more hardcore back then, as I don't remember it being that difficult.
    Whereas nowadays I get pissed off and give up at the slightest difficulty spike:)

  • spidermanalf #38 1 year ago

    Loved this game, absolutely loved it, especially parts 2 and 3, didn't play the first one for ages as it didn't load on my car boot copy...........

  • DFawkes #39 1 year ago

    I absolutely loved the music in this, and because of the way they put the music on the disc you could stick it in a CD Player and listen to them at your leisure :)

    Awesome games, all bundled onto one disc. My personal favourite was probably Die Harder as I do love lightgun games, but they were all spectacular.

  • frycrayola #40 1 year ago

    Man, I loved this game so much, I set myself the challenge of beating Die Hard 1 without getting shot once. If I saw blood, I'd start right again from the car park.

    I finished it.

    It's glorious.

  • Deno #41 1 year ago

    Great game with an unbelievable soundtrack. Check some of the tunes on youtube tell me I'm wrong, go on...

  • jonsaan #42 1 year ago

    Probe. Straight outta Croydon!

  • StriderRex #43 1 year ago

    I remember they had this game on demo in my local Virgin Megastore and I used to go in everyday on lunch from school, the game had me mesmerised, I did'nt have the money to buy it then so just played it there.
    Being used to a Megadrive and then jumping to this was phenomenal, especially driving around in DH 3, at the time that was minblowing, needless to say it was one of the 1st PS1 games I bought and I had hours of fun with it, one of the best early Playstation games and brilliant value!

    One thing that I find slightly funny now is when Metal Gear Solid came out I had to wait for a bit before I could buy it (I got £5 pocket money a week and it was £45) so to try keep myself satisfied I pretended to play Die Hard 1 like a 'stealth' game, but because of the way the game was made I could angle the camera to see through walls and over ceilings so I could see the enemy before they saw me, fun times :-)
    Needless to say when I finally got MGS I was blown away and realised what a real stealth game was like, MGS in my eyes was the best game on the Playstation.

    Edited by StriderRex at 08/05/11 @ 12:43

  • mr2ange #44 1 year ago

    I never had the game, but played it many a time round a friends house.

    Loved the Music in the first shooter level - the airport.. still keep this music today and listen to it :)

    What great times these were!

  • Magrippinho #45 1 year ago

    You guys, seriously, if you are watching Die Hard 4 in the theater and manage to let out a groan during the helicopter scene, you have no soul.

    It's like groaning during the fire hose rooftop escape in the very first one, or playing Portal 2 and going "that's so unrealistic".

    (you can freely groan during the hacking & harrier jet scenes if you really want it though)

  • DarthKebab #46 1 year ago

    Die Yankeeeee

    The first bit in Nakatomi was easy, you could just hide in the bogs and all the terrorists come to you, funny seeing a pile of bodies almost touch the top of the door.

    I loved the second part, everything was destructable or could be damaged, don't recall it being overly difficult as to use cheats though.

    The 3rd game though was the icing on the cake, arse clenching and swear jar filling, pity it was never on psn to slap on the psp, visuals might look better shrunk down.

  • StringBeanJean #47 1 year ago

    'You surprise me again mclane!'
    S'pposed to stay in your seat till the plane reaches the terminal!'

    There were a few others as well, the game select screen was hilarious.

  • self_titled #48 1 year ago

    This game was so full of win! Reading the article flooded my mind with all the sound bites: "Wanna stay alive, stay with me," "You've surprised me again, McClane," "Ooops," etc. The cheats were so much fun too (screaming plants, WTF?).

    Fondly I remember having a "turbo button" on my pad and realised that on the third game, with the infinite boosts cheat enabled, that by spamming the boosts you could fly up in the arm infinitely (since the boost animation would trigger before the car was back at its original level). Surely I wasn't the only one to have done this?!

  • TheTingler #49 1 year ago

    I maintain that the uncensored DVD director's cut of Die Hard 4 is good. I was happy to take the car bit as a bit of stupid fun, like I do the whole series.

    Die Hard Trilogy though? One of the greatest things ever. The soundtrack was fantastic too.

  • Collymilad #50 1 year ago

    Awesome game, really brilliant.

    I don't get the groaning in the cinema thing. So people went to see Die Hard 4, and something unrealistic happened, and they groan? What film did they think they were going to see exactly?

  • FuzzyDuck #51 1 year ago

    I remember most of the early PS1 adopters at my school having this.

    Three games on one disc for the thrifty win!

  • castertroy #52 1 year ago

    Bought die hard when it came out in the USA for 90 pounds ! But still money well spent. Bought another copy last year for 1.99! Great game

  • Raiko101 #53 1 year ago

    I guess i'm one of the few that enjoyed the first game over the second two. I was never really fond of lightgun style games and the third game was pretty damn tough.

  • hiddenranbir #54 1 year ago

    I instead played Die Hard Arcade on the Saturn!

  • Subdominator #55 1 year ago

    Played this on PC, I remember the second part as being pretty fun and easy to play. Probably due to mouse control. I donÄt remember the third part at all and from the first part I only remember the parking garage.

  • Phantom_Dynamite #56 1 year ago

    Brings back memories such an amazing game well 3 for the price of 1, can't believe how many times I played 2 with the light gun shooting up the airport was million times better on this than no russian.

  • septimus #57 1 year ago

    Had it on the Saturn also. Was a great game.

  • muters #58 1 year ago

    One of the iconic games of that era, for me. It was one of the first PS1 games I got (along with Resident Evil) and in terms of craziness and content, it really brought on a 'Holy shit, they can do this now?!' feeling. I replayed it last year and I still really like the first two games, but With A Vengeance is pretty bad, unless you're just messing around and not trying to beat it without cheats. I do still love the concept of it though, defusing bombs by plowing your car into them.

  • dudefella #59 1 year ago

    2 was my favorite. Best bit of the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgP1QWbOR...

  • The-Bodybuilder #60 1 year ago

    As someone said, the cab vs helicopter doesn't even compare to the harrier JET bit. That was just OTT.
    And for those saying "they were all unrealistic", true Die Hard was unrealistic (like all action movies), but the reason why it was so awesome is because it was more realistic than others.
    Before McClaine, I was used to Bond taking out hundreds of baddies without a drop of sweat on his tux, or arnie (damn I love arnie) take out an entire compound of terrorists without a graze.

    When John McClane came round, I got to see a hero crawl around vents in a bloodied heap, unable to walk due to the blood oozing from his glass-ridden feet, and could barely maintain the vest on his chest due to all the blood and dirt of dodging explosions and fist fights.

    John McClaine, the people's hero.

  • grayn #61 1 year ago

    How can the review not mention those crazy codes that turned all the cars into UFOs or the pigeons into Fergus McGovern's head?!

  • Rens11 #62 1 year ago

    You wanna stay alive you stay with me'
    Hey this ain't even my jurisdiction
    Woah ho oh I got a machine gun
    Turkey it's Christmas

    Classic quotes from a classic game'

  • adamantium #63 1 year ago

    great retrospective..

    "hey let me drive!" - that line still haunts me

  • king26 #64 1 year ago

    1 and 3 were fantastic, never really fused on 2

  • coolbritannia #65 1 year ago

    "Die Hard 4. the new Indiana Jones, Rocky Balboa, Rambo and Tron Legacy are good"

    Fail. Rocky and Rambo were good, Die Hard 4 was as passable as Tron Legacy, 6's at best, but Crystal Skull is an abortion of a film.

  • jackinov #66 1 year ago

    Man I loved this game! Everyone's right: it was hard as nails, but somehow amazingly fun...yipee kyyay mofos!

  • mcreddie #67 1 year ago

    You know what, I still have this under my bed, with the Predator gun and my Saturn. I may just hook it all up and take that painfully hard trip down memory lane. And I enjoyed the first one, was my fav as I could actually complete it.

    "Ho, ho, ho! I've got a machine gun!"

  • bebox2010 #68 1 year ago

    I used to bloody love this game, as for the die harder section being near impossible? It was if your shit at games I was 6 when it came out and I completed it. They just don't make games as fun as that anymore. I remember dht, Porsche challenge, ridge racer revolution crash bandit etc, and the weekly haul of demos like Michael Owen soccer and future cop lapd free with opsm. Good times.

  • PastorJones #69 1 year ago

    Slow down before we go back in time.
    All three games were great. Still have it with the gun.

    Have to agree with coolbritannia, crystal skull was complete shite. Ruined the franchise. You should be beaten badly for suggesting it was good. I now pretend crystal skull doesn't exist. I also pretend that only the first two Terminator films exist.

  • drhickman1983 #70 1 year ago

    I agree with The Bodybuilder above.

    The problem with Die Hard 4.0 certainly, and to a slightly lesser extent Die Hard With a Vengance (the surfing truck was pretty dumb) is that the suspension of disbelief seemed a bit too much in places. The first film is pretty ridiculous, but it managed to stay on the right side of plausible.

    Theres nothing wrong with being stupidly over the top, mind. I quite like Crank and Shoot 'Em Up. But the first Die Hard film drew the plausibility line for the series, and what came later trampled over it.

    But to avoid my comment straying too far the game at hand, the Die Hard Trilogy game was awesome, the driving section was my favourite. Mowing down civilians in central park created a feeling that has yet to repeated. Rockstar should take note!
    Edited by drhickman1983 at 09/05/11 @ 00:57

  • Bander #71 1 year ago

    "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE SWAT MEMBERS. WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER?"

    Wait, wrong game?

  • frazzl #72 1 year ago

    drhickman1983

    The roof explosion scene (towards the end of this trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia4BgnjPG7w) is about as realistic as killing a helicopter with a car :p. The series is popular for its visceral over the top action, and McClane (who as someone said is "the people's hero), not for being a realistic representation of police work. Anyone going into a Die Hard movie expecting realism is a fucking moron!

  • whatthefu #73 1 year ago

    Would defo play a done up remake of this for the pc.
    Loved the original, apart from 1, which i found impossibly long and difficult.
    completed 2 and 3 with no cheats

  • Half-assed #74 1 year ago

    I'll just leave this here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY

  • metamorphic #75 1 year ago

    Shame the movies aren't even half as good.

  • nedgip #76 1 year ago

    I got this game with my playstation and loved it!

  • Mono_X #77 1 year ago

    IIRC Die Hard Arcade was called Dynamite Detective in Japan, but whoever owns the film rights threatened to sue Sega, so I guess Sega bought a licence and repackaged it as Die Hard Arcade for a western release. It had the most awesome finishing move ever- where you left a enemy struggling in handcuffs.

    Oh and by the way Crystal Skull is as good as Temple of Doom or Last Crusade - people have very selective memories when it comes to nostalgia.

  • handsonhips101 #78 1 year ago

    If you think there are big differences between ps3 and 360 versions of a game look at this one.

    I had a Saturn when this game came out, my friends had ps1's. The playstation version was by far superior in terms of graphics and atmosphere. An example would be the transparent walls on the first game. The Saturn made do with mesh. It looked shit and annoyed me.

    I paid 55 quid for the Saturn game as well!

    I eventually got a ps1 and bought it again secondhand.


    Best bit? Getting the secret pram as a car on the third game. Mowing down people in a old fashioned baby carriage ruled.

  • Tonasaurus #79 1 year ago

    This game was absolutely ridiculous.One of those games I have no recollection of buying but remember playing incessantly. I've never had so much fun trying and failing over and over again on a video game. The taxi effort was awesome " Don't stop! Don't Stop!" "Just keep drivin!". The whole package was just as over the top as the films, that's why it was so bang on.

    Having said that the second game was a bit pants, I had that and Virtua Cop2 at the same time on my Saturn, no contest.

  • geeza2020 #80 1 year ago

    Ahh the good old days. This, FF7, Tomb raider 1&2, Alien Trilogy and TOCA touring cars was all the 14 year old me needed in the world :)

  • gallow #81 1 year ago

    I bought this game the day it came out along with the (rubbish) predator lightgun. I loved this game and played the 1st 2nd sections over and over again. I soon ditched the gun for the mouse (bought to play Syndicate Wars) for the second section and it improved it so much.

    I remember on the 1st section you could kill enemies that appeared on the radar but before they appeared screen on the screen. The office levels containing lots of glass windows to shoot out created the perfect Die Hard moments. Oh and stun grenades are you friend for bosses.

    I was rubbish at the driving section but then I am not a fan of driving games.

    This game needs a psn release and move support for Die Harder!

  • carlitoswagon #82 1 year ago

    Still have my copy with a few other classics (Wipeout) stored under stairs with my ps1.

    Good times...

  • BeachGaara #83 1 year ago

    I had this, got it on Platinum. A friend stole it. In hindsight they were terrible friends.

  • MakeYourself #84 1 year ago

    @bebox2010 - Yes!! Future Cop LAPD was immense!! Spent many hours of my childhood playing through that game, the versus battles were so much fun. My housemate picked up an old copy of it recently, brought back so many memories.

    As for DHT, it was amazing. I loved 3 the most, there was nothing else like it at the time and speeding through busy streets crashing into everything was just great fun.

  • sevenforce #85 1 year ago

    happy trails, happy days...

  • parrapa #86 1 year ago

    Also contained one of the best 'quit games' screens ever

    "Quit Game > Yes > Are you sure > Yes > Are you really sure > No > Thought not" or something along those lines.

    And there was also a great cheat in the on rails shooter one where you could get into the debug mode and mess about with the paths of characters and your own which led to some funny outcomes.

  • PixelPirate #87 1 year ago

    Die Hard Trilogy was loads of fun, I enjoyed all 3 games in different ways.



  • YenRug #88 1 year ago

    I think I might still have this at home, sold off a load of PS1 games a while back and I have a feeling this is one that didn't sell. Will have to check when I get home tonight, if it's still there, stick it in the PC to listen to the soundtrack.

  • Saxo #89 1 year ago

    Remeber playing the rail shooter alot, back when it was new, even had a light gun. What a blast.

  • revoemag #90 1 year ago

    I was the producer of this game and I wanted to say thank you for all the great comments. This game was a labor or love for a great team of very dedicated people. Fergus, Darren, Jo, Simon, that gay art guy and all the other cool people that worked their asses off to make this game. Also mad props to Chris Miller the AP who helped make it all happen and dont forget Loni Manella who made all those great voices!

    There are just so many great things that came together to make this game so great! I'd tell some stories if I had more time.