I can't wait for the next Die Hard where John McClane takes on Hans Gruber's father's son's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

Played this on Gamecube a lot. Mediocre game but was fun as a kid.

Fun Fact: The german version had the original voice actor of the movies dubbing McLane in both this and Nakatomi Plaza, but they removed all the blood. ALL of them. Making these games rather pointless.

Starship Troopers has the best game adaptation, it's just called Earth Defense Force

In america we call that shirt McLane wears a "wife beater" because of how frequently it appeared on show Cops during domestic incidents. also known as an A-shirt but nobody calls it that.

I loved this game as a kid, almost forgot this existed.

BTW, the french voice actor who voiced Bruce Willis in more than 70 movies died 5 days ago. His voice was awesome, can't imagine McClane without it. RIP Patrick Poivey.

The most inaccurate thing about the game was old mcclane had hair.

Die hard: *Welcome to the party pal* Die hard: vendetta: welcome to th- okay I'm already bored

Despite the fact Die Hard would be perfect for a shooter game, the gaming industry still fucked it up.

Lol, I forgot about the 2000's when shooters all had the "X-weapons". You saw it a lot in Tom Clancy games, too. It's bc the US was running a bunch of weapons trials at the time to replace the M4/M16 that ended up getting cancelled, and it was also a time when all kinds of tacticool shit was getting popular(thanks to the War on Terror and wide adoption of the internet by pretty much everyone) I'm guessing game devs saw some cool pictures on the internet, and wanted to throw a bit of that in whatever they were working on, usually as one of the king shit weapons you'd get later on in the game. The funny thing is, instead of seeming futuristic, it now makes a game look a bit more dated, bc you can pinpoint it to a specific range of years.

That Uzi animation is mechanically incorrect though, the bolt handle doesn't lock like on a MP5. The bolt handle can be pulled before or after inserting a new mag, since the weapon is open bolt.

"Die Hard Trilogy" was the shit back in the day!

fun fact about die hard’s story: It was based on a 1979 book and was actually a sequel, the adaptation in which starred Frank Sinatra. What does this have to do with this video? It doesn’t but the detective starring Frank Sinatra is probably a far better entry in the die hard story than this game.

"They only used that song in the first movie because it plays around Christmas" Ahhhh yes. The world renowned CHRISTMAS song "Ode an die Freude".

Lol I remember this game. Fun Fact: The Die Hard arcade was actually a Japanese game called Dynamite Detective that was just repackaged as a Die Hard game in the USA.

You just solved a 15+ year old mystery. I used to play that Die Hard arcade game at a local place and didn't know what it was when I tried to look it up years later. I've never been able to find it until you just casually showed gameplay in the first few minutes of your video. Thank you so much.

You'll see the XM-29 in games of this era because the real world weapon was in development at the same time and it was getting alot of hype as the future of infantry weapons.

Man, die hard trilogy was damn fun as a kid

I lost count on how many hours I put into Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1. One of the best early releases for that system alongside Wipeout XL.

9:14 talks about how good the animations are and that guy literally spreads dominance over him

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was my favorite "hot Hollywood actor/actress whatever" for so long after Scott Pilgrim 😍

I loved this game! "THIS TUNE IS KICKIN IT!" 😂

Hey gman can you do a review of total overdose, it's not a fps but still a awesome game, I'd love to see your take on it

Happy Midsummer to Gggmanboss and thanks for the new video!

Nakatomi plaza nails McClane being left handed. How many other games have a Lefty handed character?

5:26 - "It has been PU-RE-JA!!!! doing business with you." Oh, dear....

I was just binge watching your channel and you go ahead and upload the very same day. Thank you good man.

As someone who has hemorrhoids, the "till were bleeding from our assholes" line doesn't exactly have the same effect on me 😂😂

Man i've been waiting years for this one

Ok, I really want to see these ammo counters in more games. And not just any "rounds in the mag" images, but different looking mags for different weapons and even revolver cylinders, with rounds going up the mag instead of going down, like it's some cup or something. (shotgun's counter could've been more accurate though)

First three Die hard movie are anthologies of action movies. Everything that comes after were pure garbage..

Did I miss the meeting or something where the legendary Die Hard 2: Die Harder just became the lowpoint of the Die Hard series?!

Oouch, brutal review but all fair from the players pov. The story of it's development is a lot more interesting from it's early beginnings on N64, tiny team and the publisher wanting more story than game play. It really was a missed opportunity for sure. The Prison level was the first level we made, hence why it was over complicated on getting out of the cell (trying to be too clever). The training level was the last level we made and that has weapons we did not even use because the code was not there in time. The game wants you to play it a certain way, mostly stealth and arrests but you are never rewarded for doing it. When you just storm in guns blazing it feels cheap and stupid. Also, the first level of the game for example was remade in 2 weeks after we were told we could not use the original plush Getty museum we had made in LA. Almost all of your frustrations I'm sure were felt by the team who mostly this was their first game and were exhausted by the end. The PS2 version was brutal and real issues fitting it onto the system. As for the Auto jump that was really something that 'Mario club' at Nintendo suggested as jumping in FPS games were 'not fun' Anyway, having said all of that, much was learnt and some of my fondest memories in the industry come from making this, good people working very hard, and well, sometimes it just does not work out the way you want it. It was like the wild west back then, shame it was not the classic we wanted it to be. Love your reviews BTW, keep them coming. derek

OMG I love your reviews and your one liners you use to describe things. I find myself constantly laughing my ass off.

"yeah, i recently acquired the taste".... killed me!

The OICW showed up in a lot of first person shooters at the time because it was projected to replace the M4 as the US Military's standard rifle. Then the US Military cancelled the project and the gun never entered mass production so developers didn't put it in any future video games as a result.

Gmanlives: you should be able to shoot longer than it takes you to reload game: cries in civil war musket.

And here I was waiting for you to review this since the early days of your channel.

I had completely forgotten that this existed. I guess I keep mixing this and Nakatomi Plaza in my head.

Is it me or that "Galaxy Thief" Poster at 6:46 looks strangely like the "The Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within" poster?

The XM-29 you mentioned pops up in a lot of games during the early 2000s, as well as the M8 does in the mid-2000s, because there was, and I believe still is, an effort to update from the M16/M4 series weapons platform and the XM-29/XM8 look futuristic asf

Just here for Gman to say "she fine"

Also, there was a Die Hard game released for the PC Engine/Turbografx that was actually not half bad of a game, despite taking some liberties here and there.

Holy Toledo. That's a phrase I haven't heard in a LOOOOOOONG time

Starship Troopers also had an RTS game where you controlled a squad of soldiers to complete objectives. Gameplay was similar to things like Ground Control, with pre mission gear management and no base building. It was pretty good.

I played the die hard arcade at the arcades, I found it difficult as a kid and never got far. The die hard trilogy game was my first ever ps1 game and it was amazing, got so many good memories of that game! Never bothered with the driving one but I completed both the 1st person shooter and the die hard 1 where you move around different levels.

I actually remember having fun with this as a kid on gamecube

die hard arcade! holy shit gman you're taking me back! used to play that with my mate on his sega genesis back in the day!

I remember renting this game as a kid from blockbuster, I got stuck in the hollywood level not knowing where to go and never finished it.

Hell, I remember this

Some interesting trivia: DIe Hard Nakatomi Plaza started life as a BUILD engine Total Conversion before moving to the Lithtech engine. DIe Hard Vendetta started life as an N64 game. The prototype was leaked a few years back, and you can see almost all of the ideas there are in the final game. The prison section seemed to be more of a prison riot scenario? But everything is there from the apartments, to Hollywood BLVD, etc etc... This could explain some of the antiquated design elements.

It came out in pal territory on the OG xbox. It does work in ntsc mode on modded xboxes

not overthinkin the beater/singlet , nailed it

Oh my god this game rocked. Though on the game cube there's a controller layout that doesn't let you do slow mo so I completely missed out on that feature.

Loved playing Trilogy on the PS1 with a light gun and on the PC with a mouse for the Die Harder rail shooter section.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead enjoyer. Impeccable taste, my god, she even has a watermark.

Fun Fact : This was originally developed for the N64, called Diehard 64. That port was cancelled but was reworked into this game. 3 Prototypes exists of that version that was dumped an few months ago.

There was a pretty good starship troopers game, rts sort of thing with a squad you could equip with different gear and exosuits. Don't remember the exact name of it. One of my fondest memories with that game is the grunts going "Bughole spotted!" which I would always hear as bunghole. Oh man, the nostalgia is real.

“How is anyone supposed to figure this out?” “Innocuous elements like this are not clever.” Gman has been spoiled by modern games and quest markers.

I think the flamethrower in the fish packing factory is in reference to Soldier of Fortune's Sudan level

I remember the last level...hearing the line "Watch the mines, John!" over and over. I might have beat the game but I don't remember. This was also the first game I played that had swearing in it (parents didn't let me play GTA).

You had me at "First and third Movie". :)

Dude no way... Gman i appreciate you for this one

I remember this was the first Gamecube game I played after Luigi's Mansion and then went back to playing N64 for about a year.

Used to love the die hard trilogy on the ps1. You're right, it's an absolute guilty pleasure.

Major brownie points for including that clip from The IT Crowd

I remember that commercial lol

gotta love christmas games

the kill cam was kimda fum cuz i just left the trigger held and u could see the blood kept coming out of them but it was random sometimes blood wouldnt come out

Welcome to the party. Pal

Story Five years after the events of Die Hard With a Vengeance, John McClane returns to the LAPD task force after an extended absence. After refreshing his skills in a training exercise, McClane goes home to watch the unveiling of a painting that was recovered from an expedition in South America by Piet Gruber (the son of Hans Gruber, the main villain from the first Die Hard film). As the unveiling begins, Lucy (McClane's daughter, now a police officer) witnesses robbers attempting to leave with artwork and gunfire erupts, panicking the crowd. McClane rushes to the Townsend Museum to rescue his daughter. Once there, McClane is notified that the robbers have sealed themselves in and taken hostages, including Lucy. McClane enters the museum and begins his search for the hostages, taking out several criminals in the process. After saving Dick Thornberg and Christopher von Laden (the museum's curator), McClane rescues Lucy. McClane takes a stroll on Hollywood Boulevard when the chief notifies him of two murders at a diner not far from the former's location. McClane (disguised as a criminal) neutralizes Sergio, the perpetrator of the murders, and takes the latter's membership card, gaining access to the club where Sergio's crew is having a meeting. Quickly dispatching Sergio's men, McClane learns that the stolen artwork is hidden in a Chinese movie theater, and makes his way there. Saving the hostages, McClane dwells into the subways to retrieve the missing artwork. He overhears a conversation between von Lanen (who is secretly in league with Piet) and Jack Frontier, a former U.S. Army soldier and CIA operative turned actor turned criminal for hire. von Laden expresses his concerns about the plan, but Frontier pushes it off and orders him to go into hiding. Retrieving fragments of the artwork, McClane manages to find a distraught von Laden, telling him that Frontier wants the curator dead. The two escape into the city's aqueduct, where Lucy meets up with them and takes von Laden into custody. McClane returns to the LAPD headquarters, where Piet's men have taken over the entire compound. McClane rescues Thornburg, who happens to try to get an exclusive interview with von Laden. Thornburg informs McClane there are two booby trapped bombs planted in the main entrance doors, and should anyone from the outside attempts a rescue, the headquarters will explode. McClane finds Lucy and an injured von Laden, where the latter tells McClane that Piet and Frontier has plans for him and all of Los Angeles. McClane recruits inmates Herbert Dowd and Nitric to hack into the police's communications system and disarm the explosives at the main entrance. Once the explosives are disarmed, Nitric betrays McClane and escapes. McClane, while in the hot pursuit for Nitric, obtains a suitcase that contains evidence of the art robbery. He confronts Piet, who is holding Captain Al Powell, von Laden, and Thornburg hostage. Lucy appears to aid her father, but is taken hostage by Piet's newest henchman Nitric. Piet kills von Laden, and makes his getaway with Frontier and Nitric in the helicopter. McClane and the LAPD track the helicopter down to a movie studio in Hollywood. After providing cover for the SWAT team using a sniper, he regroups with them and they recover some of the paintings. McClane ignores their advice to go home and stays to find Lucy. Arriving at a Western-themed set in the studio, McClane and Nitric engage in a shootout, where the former comes out victorious. Al comes and arrests McClane for his unintentional assault on Jessie Montana, a renowned actress whose trailer McClane vandalized while trying to find Lucy. At the Sierra Correctional Facility, Piet's men stage a jailbreak, and Nitric leaves his cell. Sergio kidnaps the prison warden, opening all the cell doors in the process. McClane leave his cell and arms himself as he attempts to find Nitric and the prison warden. The prison breakout intensifies, and McClane rescues the prison warden, revealing that Nitric is on the roof waiting for a helicopter. McClane finds Nitric and shoots down the latter. Nitric refuses to tell where Lucy at as he dies. Al arrives, and, impressed by McClane's heroics, tells him he can go home. Following a cryptic tip Nitric gave him before his death, McClane heads to a fish factory near the harbor to find Lucy. Instead, he finds Piet exchanging the paintings for a prototype RDXS Ample with Sumi Kazawa. Marlin, a long time associate of Piet, reveals herself, and they take the rocket to a warehouse in the harbor, with McClane giving follow. Being helped out by two factory workers, he sneaks inside a truck to follow the whereabouts of the rocket and Lucy. As this was going on, Thornburg announces Piet will destroy the Los Angeles International Airport with the experimental missile if the city of Los Angeles does not give him $1 billion by the end of the night. McClane finds himself outside the city in a warehouse where the missile is prepared to be launched, giving him the mission to destroy ten fuel tanks so the missile launch could be averted. Once successful, McClane finds the disabled rocket, only to be confronted by Frontier. Frontier reveals his plan to betray Piet, whileas he orders Marlin to kill McClane as he leaves to collect the ransom money. After a lengthy gunfight, McClane overcomes Marlin. As she dies, Marlin tells McClane that Piet is taking Lucy to Nakatomi Plaza, the same place where McClane killed Piet's father many years ago. The LAPD forms a blockade around the plaza just as Al receives a call from McClane. At the same time, Frontier informs him of McClane disabling the rocket. McClane arrives to end the threat once and for all. On the 22nd floor, Piet sets up a trap for McClane, who barely escapes. McClane warns Al to hold off the backup while he goes to the top to rescue Lucy. Fighting his way through Piet's men, McClane finds Lucy at the top floor of the plaza, where she is wearing a vest of explosives triggered to explode if she moves. McClane finds the detonator codes and defuses the explosives, saving his daughter. Lucy takes her father to the roof where Piet and Frontier are waiting for a helicopter to escape. McClane catches up to the two on the helipad, and as Piet is about to shoot McClane dead, Frontier shoots Piet from behind, fulfilling his promise to betray his boss. Lucy comes and guns down Piet. Frontier leaves, but not before McClane grabs the bottom wheel of the helicopter. Arriving at the Holmes Observatory for the premiere of Galaxy Thief III, McClane deduces Frontier's plot to kill the entire cast of the movie as revenge for his fall from grace. Learning from a wounded security officer that there are five bombs hidden in suitcases rigged to destroy the observatory, McClane rushes inside to save the hostages and disarm the bombs. Once successful, McClane and Frontier engage in a final confrontation. McClane defeats Frontier, and Frontier activates a bomb hidden in his gear. McClane escapes in the nick of time as the observatory explodes, killing Frontier in the process. McClane reunites with Lucy and Al. Robert Barnes, a film developer, offers McClane a starring role in a movie based on the recent events, but McClane punches him and walks off with his daughter, ending the game.

GmanLives: "You should always be able to fire a weapon longer than it takes to reload." Ingram MAC-11: *allow me to introduce myself*

Oh fuck this was a guilty pleasure in the day. That prison escape though that took me an ungodly amount of time to figure out

Taking place after the first three Die Hard films, players take on terrorists as John McClane. Reginald VelJohnson reprises his role as Sgt. Al Powell. McClane's daughter, Lucy, is an L.A.P.D. member in the game.

Gman: *Drops Video at 8 AM* Me: "I don't need sleep I need answers"

Whats your thoughts on doing Lucas art´s Armed and Dangerous?

Loved playing this game as a kid.

I actually loved this game when I was younger. I though the stealth sections and the fact you could sneak up on enemies was so cool for an FPS game at the time. There was a lot of frustration with the very few mid-level checkpoints and ridiculous ways you can die. Overall, one of the better early PS2 games I played.

I'd love to see a review on Coldwinter which i believe was a PS2 exclusive. From what i remember it was a very ambitious game on the PS2 for the day but im sure Gman could rip it a new arsehole for our entertainment. 😳

At least there's a Tux the penguin balloon Easter egg. 😄

I like how that one game shows him as left handed

i want to play this now

This is definitely a guilty pleasure game for me. Rose tinted specs have made me love this, I remember playing it for hours on end on my Gamecube. I may have also had the Die Hard movies on in the background XD Edit: I did beat this game at 10 years old but not without the help of the Prima guide. Man, those Prima guides were awesome!

Bruce Willis: Is left-handed Video Games featuring any of Bruce's characters: Righty Right right handed nutjobs

An alcoholic with a welfare payment ! I fucking love that quote pure genius because it’s so freaking true

baiting my ass with that uzi animation bit

I really like your vids being a Aussie makes it easy to understand and relate

remember in Hardline when you could arrest cops while being an escaped con

"flinging shit at our own shadows" ahah how poetic ♥

Will you review the Nakatomi Plaza ? My younger brother liked that game back in the day.

The first Die Hard movie was based on a novel. In the novel, the protagonist is a retired cop and much older than the movie John. Apparently, since they did not want to pay Bruce to use his likeness, the game developers made this John look like the one from the book, face wise.

Played this as a kid and it was hands down my favorite game on the GameCube next to Timesplitters 2, I cherished this game and replayed its opening levels endlessly! I never did complete it because its a balls crushingly hard game for a kid and even an adult nowadays cos the game has aged like milk but I love to re-live those fond memories of playing this fantastic but dated title.

oh good great, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight.

I understood the AVGN reference.

The rts starship troopers game from 2000 was great tough.

ive been looking for this game for YEARS \

I bought this game for my brother as a cheap gift because the cover images looked cool.

Yess!! I remember getting sick on Pepsi Twist and playing this game constantly!

It doesn’t need to be Christmas for Ode To Joy. “It is the highest achievement of the lilim culture”