Die Hard Arcade (1996 Video Game) User Reviews

An excellent Die Hard game

[gangstahippie · 10/10 · 2 August 2006]

Rated T for Violence.

I remember I played Die Hard Arcade in an arcade that was near my local movie theater.I was simply blown away with what I saw.I played this game in 2002 but imagine how great it was in 1996.The graphics are fairly good for 1996 and there are plenty of cool weapons and fight techniques you can use.The ending is pretty fun to especially with two players.The whole game is a very fun and good action romp.Don't be turned off by the game just because it is Rated T and the films are Rated R.This game has plenty of action.Even better than the Die Hard Trilogy games.If you can find it get it!

10/10

Arcade Beat em' Up

[sonic_hedgehogs · 10/10 · 4 August 2002]

Storyline: When detective John McClane though the Nakatomi Plaza incident was over, he was wrong. His wife still works there, but a band of terrorists have took control and have 24 hostages including the president's daughter.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Gameplay: Known as Dynamite Deka in Japan, Sega decided to create alittle buzz around this title by bringing the Die Hard license in and making the storyline evolve around the Die Hard series. If your into Beat-Em-Uppers, then you'll love this title. If your just a plain old Die Hard fan like myself, I guess its a good game though it has hardly anything about Die Hard in it except the cool box art and trademark sleeveless shirt. If you took a 2D Beat-Em-Upper and added great 3D graphics, you'd get this slightly side scrolling fighting game. the main object is just to go around defeating all the bad guys in each area. Almost anything seen around can be used as a weapon, or has secret power-ups or hand guns hidden in them. The cutscenes are a okay addition to make the storyline easy to follow and very simple. Looks like the main honcho is looking to grab the goods in the Nakatomi Plaze like are old buddy Hans Gruber did, or tried to do.

Theres hundreds of different moves you can use to fight off bad guys, including pushing them to the ground and arresting them. Guns, hair spray, pipes, lighters, and almost any kind of thing that can be used as a weapon can be found. The game works in areas, kill all the bad guys and you go to a new area/room.

If your a Die Hard fan, this doesn't really do the Die Hard world as much justice as it should, but its a great game for your Die hard collection. Theres also a side game, which is Deep Scan, a classic Sega game that gives you credits for the main game, and two players in the main game in case you and a friend wanna give it a go.

Begs to be played, even just for that one time

[Mr-Fusion · 6/10 · 30 July 2015]

You can't walk past this game without giving it a shot; the marquee with the exploding Nakatomi building, the speakers, the ostentatious-yet-still-unassuming cabinet art ... It's that feeling of excitement that they actually paid attention to this license and gave it an exciting coin-op treatment. Then you actually start playing it, and the whole thing's just surreal. "Die Hard Arcade" is a run-of-the-mill beat 'em up with a generic muscle bound hero in a wife beater. Lots of running in this game. You dash through the building issuing beatdowns to other not-from-the-movie bad guys, and the character models are right out of Virtua Fighter. It's kinda absurd, but the sort of craziness that needs to be tried out at least once.

6/10