Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas

Reviewed by:
Eric Alt

This game rocks! Remember when Bruce Willis and Die Hard were considered the coolest thing to happen to action movies since the automatic weapon? Well, Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas from Fox Interactive will bring you back to a time when you didn’t snicker about Willis’ hairline or shudder at the mere mention of The Story of Us.

Essentially, Die Hard Trilogy 2 combines three kick-ass action games in one: A Lara Croft-esque third person adventure in which you run around like a rat in a maze blowing away bad guys and gathering important items, a high-speed driving game where you ram your car into everything from streetlights to cows, and a first-person “sharpshooting” test where the bad guys are ducks in a gallery. This installment has enough to satisfy even the most hardcore gamer. What’s most impressive is how the three modes blend together to create a linear storyline. Luckless John McClane gets invited out to Vegas for a party and ends up in the middle of a prison riot, which sends him chasing international terrorists all over Sin City. Game control is kept mercifully simple—hit this button to shoot, hit this one to, um, shoot more, etc.—and there are plenty of nasty little surprises. (Don’t miss the opportunity to fry the prison guard in the electric chair during the opening stage. Flip the switch and grab the marshmallows.)

All the elements are here: lots o’ guns, lots o’ action, and MacClane’s signature Yippie-ki-yay! If only the movies could have been this much fun…

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