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Brains, Brains and More Brains ++ NUCLEAR ACTION!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the smartest and most demanding games you will ever play. It is tetris, but with little men that get into special vehicles that you operate to move objects around a city path to allow a runaway nuclear bomb on a truck a clear path. It is not as easy as it seems, is very addictive and some of the best fun I ever had playing any game. There was nothing quite like. I played this for thinking and Turok for shooting. I remember this impressed quite a few brain friends I had. They loved it. It is quite a thrill also. Tense when you get near the end and the nuclear lorry is right on your tail. Amazing concept. Thanks for these memories and happy times.

Blast Corps

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I have ever played period! I noticed a lot of the reviews claim the game lacks substance and "all you do is blow up buildings". This is hardly the case. Also, many complain that younger kids can't pick the game up and lose interest. I understand that younger players may have a tough time completing the more difficult levels as well as finding the secrets in this game. However, I believe this is the problem with the Nintendo 64. WAY TOO MANY games are made for kids while adults grow bored quickly with them. The best example I can think of is Mario Kart 64 one of the very first games sold for the N64. While the original Mario Kart for the SNES Rocked, the N64 version was an absolute joke! Every time you get in front of the person you are playing against, the computer gives the person in back more speed and WAY too much of an advantage with weapons. The earlier version had some computer assistance but the N64 version of computer assistance ruined the game for me and my friends. I'm sure Nintendo was thinking this advantage given to the player in back would make the game more fun and closer. All I asked for was the option to DISABLE computer assistance! The lack of games with substance like Blast Corps is what ruined the Nintendo 64 and made it the biggest flop in gaming history!

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.

More fun than flaming mac and cheese

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In opposition to the numerous other posts speaking against this game, I found it to be one of the most involving, compelling, and over-all fun experiences for the Nintendo 64. Very few games have been able to capture the intense arcade feel that Blast Corps so easily masters. Combine that with very well done graphics (considering that it was a first generation N64 game) and demolition as the sole objective, and you have a recipe for a great game. Rare (creator of Goldeneye, DK64, Banjo Kazooie, to name a few) adds yet another masterful creation to their repertoire. The controls do take a few tries to get used to, but once accomplished, they become second nature. If you like genre-busting games that create a sense of tension, or are simply looking for a chance to destroy everything in sight by means of vehicles, this game is definitely for you.

Why the bad reviews?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a heck of a game. The plot, which I felt was pretty creative, concerns a runaway truck carrying a nuclear weapon moving across the world. Your team of expert demolitionists go into various cities with the intent of clearing a path for the weapon. You get to ride around in many vehicles, including a bulldozer, a train, a couple of "Mech"-type robots, and even muscle cars. There are tons of missions and bonus missions, which inevitable lead you to missions on other planets! This game has a fantastic sense of tension, as you will often find yourself trying to knock down buildings seconds before the nuclear truck runs into them. Excellent game!

Boom

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What would you say if I told you that an automated nuclear carrier was carrying 2 nuclear warheads and they started to leak, what would you say if that carrier had locked in the most direct path in order to detonate the weapons at the safest point possible, yet if the warheads are hit, they will explode destroying everything within a close radius. That is the premise of Blast Corps. and yes it is as much fun as the title could possibly imply. This is one of the first games I bought for my Nintendo 64 and I'm still not sorry that I bought it. It is possibly one of the funnest games ever on the Nintendo 64. What kind of game gives you heavy vehicles and man piloted suits in order to level city after city to clear the path for a truck carrying weapons of mass destruction. The game graphically is fine looking and the controls make the game a joy to play. I strongly recommend this game, because, there are times when you need to just blow something up.

Rare used to make good games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Up until they were bought by microsoft and half their staff left, Rare used to make awesome games. This is one of them. Blast Corps is one of the hardest games I have ever played and yes maybe a little too hard. But, look at it this way, it's been about a decade since it came out and I still have a reason to play it. Getting all platinum medals is probably the most ridiculous task in video game history. This is what I like about Nintendo games, even though you beat it, you didn't really "beat" it, Like goldeneye with all the cheats, or mario kart ds with 3 stars. some of the vehicles are hard to control but that's pretty much the point of the vehicle. On the plus side, if you like a challenge then this is a great game for you. On the down side, you will probably never be able to beat it all the way.

cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Blast Corps is the only game I've ever played where all you do is destroy buildings. I enjoyed most of the game except for a few parts. After getting past about half of the game, it started getting confusing. Especially the level where you have to get in the crane and use it to destroy the buildings. You have to ride a train to even get there on time. Another bad part is running out of ammo on the motorcycle destruction stage when you need it the most. That shows that this game is real challenging even if you're a veteran gamer and can beat most of the games you've played. But other than that, I really can't complain any about Blast Corps. I thought side swiping through buildings with a dumptruck and using a huge robot to stomp on buildings was pretty cool. The game also had some of the most realistic graphics I have seen even up to now. When you hop on the train to take a shortcut, the train couldn't look more real. The sound and music went good with the game and most parts of the game are fun. Another drawback might be that after you get so far in the game, you just get tired of playing it and think you can't get no further cause even after you figure out what to do, it's still just as much of a barrier to overcome.

If you like just trashing buildings and doing a bunch of reckless driving, I'd definitely recommend getting this game.

great fun breaking stuff!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

youve got space age mega-destructive demolition vehgicles.you are on timed boards where you go in and in destroy everything in sight!theres bombs,giant dump trucks that can take out buildings and much much more!the only pain in the butt is this stupid timed thing.if it werent for the timer putting pressure on yoiu the whole time.this would be far less stressful.

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...

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