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Not for everybody

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS NOT A GAME FOR INEXPERIENCED GAMERS! My little brother couldn't figure this game out for his life. However, I am an experienced gamer (I've been glued to my TV ever since I got my NES back in '88), and I liked this game a lot once I got the hang of it.

Here's the story: There is a truck carrying nuclear devices, and it is supposed to be on a set course that cannot be changed. However, the truck is now off-course, and its direction can't be changed (oops). If it hits anything, the nukes will explode. It's your duty to clear the path for this thing and prevent it from blowing up. To do this, you have all sorts of vehicles and 40 foot robots and such. So basically, your job is to destroy everything in this truck's path.

This sounds like it would be very boring and repetetive, right? WRONG! All of the vehicles have their strenghts and weaknesses, and you must master using all of them in order to beat the game. Also, there are some strategy elements in this game, since some parts of the level may be inaccessable to certain vehicles, so you have to use the right vehicles at the right time. There's also parts where you have to move stuff around in just the right order for everything to work out. You've heard the expression ''there's more than one way to skin a cat.'' Well, there's more than one way for a truck full of nukes to blow up, and there's more than one way to clear its path (just make sure you use the right one on the right level ;)).

You get a medal for beating each level, how good you do determines how good of a medal you get. This adds to the replay value, which is important because this game is a little short (I said a LITTLE short). The last levels are kind of cool, they don't even take place on Earth...

If you are an experienced gamer that is looking for something new, at least rent this game. I don't think there has ever been a game like this, and it provides good challenge. Those guys at Rareware are geniuses!

I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could...

BLOW STUFF UP!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you like blowing stuff up, this game is for you. Control a variety of construction (or destruction) vehicles to clear the way for a leaking nuclear tanker. Ok, so maybe the plot leaves a little to be desired, but the action and strategy will bring you back again and again. One of my favorite features of this game (designers take note) is that the game teaches you how to play in the first few levels. Some of the later levels are a little harder than I think they needed to be, but the bonus levels and hidden secrets give it a good amount of replay value.

Clean and great to keep forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great!!I love it so much!! It is good for ages because it has no blood or privledges to kill and steal, even though you wreck, this game is is a one of a kind game ,making this a Grand theft auto type for anyone.

Good, but too difficult at times

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Its a good game. It's not that hard until the levels late in the game (i.e. diamond sands) and it is fairly addictive. It is very fun but gets tedious if you get stuck in a harder level. Also, Backlash is rather hard to control even with practice.
HOWEVER: it is worth your time even with the issues with backlash and the harder levels. Most of the game is very creative and decently difficult.

A Blast to Play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Originally reviewed at Last-Gen.com:

Released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64, Rare's Blast Corps is a blast (gasp) to play.

Explosions have an important role in Hollywood because it sells like hotcakes. Terminator 2, Die Hard, Speed, etc. and the list goes on: it just wouldn't be the same. The exact rule applies for video games, and sometimes a cool explosion can make you feel super cool, saying "holy crap, I did that!" Blast Corps is one of those games that keeps you in explosion heaven.

The premise of Blast Corps is pretty simple: clear a pathway for the missile carrier. For some strange reason the carrier is carrying two unstable nuclear warheads that will go off at the slightest touch, and some genius decided that it'd be a good idea to have the thing on auto-pilot. You basically exercise the classic horror film cliché: run as fast as you can from the slow-moving antagonist to stay alive, breaking everything in your path to reach safety. Thankfully, you have powerful vehicles and giant robots in your arsenal of demolition machines.

There are eight vehicles for you to control, and each offer a different type of gameplay. Ramdozer (bulldozer) is the simplest, where you just ram things to destroy them; J-Bomb (giant robot) can fly with its jetpack and fall onto buildings to destroy them (think Mario's butt stomp in Super Mario 64), and six more gameplay styles. The graphics are pretty nice with clean models and colorful explosions. I personally liked the music, surprisingly good considering its genre (what is the genre?). The sound effects are of course good, though the explosions sound kind of cheesy. It is nice that the game has talking characters, I catch myself saying "Time to get moving!" after playing this game for a while, it's very contagious.

Blast Corps is very fun to play alone and with friends taking turns since it doesn't support 2-player. I can also recommend this to younger kids since it's full of Tonka and giant robot goodness without any violence (that's of course if you don't consider explosions `violence'). Overall, a must-have for any Nintendo 64 gamer!

And the Object of the Game Is?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is extremely confusing for my 6 year old son and also for my 27 year son who is an excellent gamer who can master any game. He did not find it interesting enough to even try and figure it out. Instructions are vague and no help at all. There is no purpose to this game and what do you do when you get to where you are suppose to be? Wasted my money on this one.

I WASTED MY WEEKEND

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw this game I thought it would be great, Right? WRONG! This game is terribly frustrating. The controls are sloppy, the graphics lack depth and the vehicles are murder to control. The Harbor level was the hardest and most challenging. You have to blast your was across a harbor to prevent the missile carrier and every move has to be PRECISE!. If you make even just one mistake then it will cost you the level and you will have to start over. Tak my advice and DO NOT BUY OR EVEN RENT THIS GAME! The only good part about it is when you rent it and someone has beaten all the levels and you can goof around all you want but even that gets old. FICKEN MIT SIE BLAST CORPS! FICKEN MIT SIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS GAME SUCKS BIG TIME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: April 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is so boring all you do is go around destroying buildings and cleanimg something that my brother doesn't even know, and he's like the best gamer in the world. DON'T BUY THIS GAME BUY 007 OR WRESTLEMANIE 2000!

Warning: DO NOT BUY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is quite possibly the worst video game in the entire history of video games. There is NO plot and the graphics leave much to be desired. There really is no point to the game. The levels are dull with no real excitement. As soon as I started playing I felt compelled to turn it off and demand that I get my money back. It is about a bunch of construction vehicles. NOT THAT EXCITING! I have had more fun staring at walls than I had playing this game (not that I stare at walls too often). If you purchase this game, return it immediately from whence it came. They should have to pay the customer to play it. It's that bad.

Blast Bore

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: April 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Do not rent this game. It is (A) a waste of three bucks, (B) a horrible game, and (C) you can't win! What the heck is the object of the game? There's nothing to do! You complete objectives and then... what? don't rent this game, rent GOLDENEYE 007--- IT'S AWESOME!

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