Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza
The game is a first-person shooter that follows the plot of the first Die Hard film. Players take the role of John McClane, and try to stop the terrorist attack on the Nakatomi Plaza. The game's levels are…
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is a shooter developed by Piranha Games, released 22 April 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is a shooter game developed by Piranha Games and released in 2002. It was published by Fox Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on LithTech 2.x.
The premise, in the publisher's words
New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Die Hard series
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is the tenth of 12 entries we hold in the Die Hard series. It arrived 2 years after Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas. The next entry was Live Free Or Die Hard: The Mobile Game in 2006.
How it was received
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 38 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza launched on 22 April 2002, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Spider-Man and Dungeon Siege. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Spider-Man, Dungeon Siege.
Official trailer
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