Review by: Hamiltom

I feel I must write separately to disagree with the other reviews of DHT that speak in favorable terms.

I rented this game, after having also played the PSX version, and was most awfully disappointed. I think it stayed in my Saturn for an hour and a half and then was returned to BlockBuster toute-suite.

The concept, admittedly, is fabulous - 3 action games, all related to the movie series, packed onto one disc. The implementation, however, is tragic.

The first mistake was the menu system -- one has to endure several loading screens and menus even to get to a game, a feature that can only annoy - the Saturn has a great CD system and generally has much better loading times than the PSX -- DHT is a glaring exception.

Secondly, the games themselves are amateurish at best - playing the first game, Die Hard, was almost painful. The graphics are so poor, its almost impossible to see what is going on, and even if you could, the speed is so dismal that its not even worth trying. Poor detective McLain felt as if he was moving underwater.

The second game, Die Harder, was not bad. But not particularly good either. If you like this sort of thing, you would be much better off spending your hard earned cash on the stunning Virtua Cop 1 and 2.

The last game is the worst offender - while twelve year old boys may get a perverse thrill from bloodily crushing passers-by -- pedestrian carnage does not a game make. What is worse, the pedestrians simply get up and continue walking after you hit them - why why why? Similarly, the windshield wipers clearing blood splatters are cute once - ONCE! (See Johnny Dangerously for the reference here).

This game was actually an embarrassment to me as someone who has to constantly justify owning a Saturn over a PSX or N64. If we allow too many more of these games to see the light of day, the Saturn will suffer an early demise - kept alive only by innovative Japanese imports that most of the population never gets to play (since Sega, in their ultimate wisdom, installed a lockout device to keep us playing only their officially sanctioned drivel like DHT - my advice, buy a universal adapter cart now).

Accordingly, if you are desperate to play this game, go ahead, but don't say I didn't warn you. You would do much better to save your hard-earned cash for better titles like Die Hard Arcade or Virtua Cop.