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• Perfect Dark

  Rareware

  
  A first-person shooter that mixes spy and sci-fi, Perfect Dark is both a thoroughly engrossing one-player experience and a riotously fun multiplayer romp. Easily one of the best games of its genre on any video game console, this long-awaited follow-up to GoldenEye 007 is a must-have for Nintendo 64 owners--and a damn good reason to be one if you're not.

  The futuristic Perfect Dark casts players as Joanna Dark, a secret agent who becomes embroiled in a sinister conspiracy involving aliens and an evil corporation. Gameplay is broken down into missions, each with objectives that must be unerringly completed before progressing to the next mission. This is not your typical kill-anything-that-moves game: putting a bullet in the wrong person, not keeping the right one alive, or perforating a seemingly unimportant inanimate object can often result in mission failure.

  While Perfect Dark's solo missions play out much like those in GoldenEye 007, the game's fantastic multiplayer options are another matter entirely. Cooperative and counteroperative simultaneous-play modes allow for another player to join in on a mission as, respectively, a teammate or the enemy. However, the real fun here is in the highly customizable Combat Simulator, a one-to-four-player simultaneous-play mode that features both free-for-alls and team-based challenges and can include up to eight Simulants, computer-controlled combatants of varying behavior.

  Although Simulants make for decent adversaries or teammates, you'll want to grab a friend--and an Expansion Pak, as only 35 percent of the game is available without one--to fully enjoy Perfect Dark. --Joe Hon

  Pros:

  • One of the best first-person shooters on any video game console
  • Outstanding multiplayer game with huge replay value
  • Bevy of game options, cheats, and secret features
  • Excellent training mode with challenges all of its own

  Cons:

  • Graphics get ugly when playing with more than two players
  
   

• Army Men Sarge's Heroes

  3DO

  
  Little green plastic army men: perhaps one of the all-time classic toys. Who hasn't spent hours of their childhood enacting epic sandbox battles with these little guys? With their Army Men series, 3DO has let gamers see the world from the army men's two-inch-tall perspective.

  Your mission is to rescue the members of Sarge's squad from the evil "tan army guys" army. A series of progressively more difficult missions teaches the player to become proficient in using traditional army man weapons, including the M-16, sniper rifle, mortar, hand grenade, and bazooka. Unlike many multiweapon games, Army Men: Sarge's Heroes offers choices of firepower that aren't gratuitous. Each weapon has specific advantages and all of them are needed to complete the missions. It's a little detail, but one of the coolest features of this game is that your onscreen hero assumes all the classic army men poses when using the weapons: the machine gunner, the hand grenade thrower, the standing marksman, even the classic "crawling guy" are faithfully represented.

  So how are the missions? In a word: fun. All are challenging, and one gets to fight in places where your mom would never let you, such as the kitchen and the bathroom. With great combat action, interesting missions, and a good dose of humor, 3DO has another Army Men victory. --Jeanne Uy

  Pros:

  • Excellent combat gameplay
  • Interesting missions in cool real-world locations, all to scale
  • Training area teaches you the ropes

  Cons:

  • Multiplayer options do not include a cooperative mode
  • Need a memory card to save your game
  
   

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

  Red Storm

  
  Every once in awhile, a game comes along that pulls elements of popular game genres together in a refreshing new way. Rainbow Six is such a game, taking the engrossing realism of a first-person action game, such as GoldenEye 007, and adding a strategy element that brings enormous depth to the gameplay.

  Tom Clancy authored the Rainbow Six game while drafting the novel of the same name, and the attention to detail shows in the depth and maturity of the story and game design. Players take command of an elite anti-terrorist team through 12 missions that vary from saving hostages to disarming bombs. A plot unravels along the way that literally leaves the fate of the world in the player's shaking hands (a rumble pack works wonders here).

  Before jumping into the mission, players can read briefings and bios of the terrorists, choose team members based on specialty, and strategize each move using an overhead map of the area or building they must infiltrate. Setting waypoints in the planning stage allows the computer-controlled team members to, say, infiltrate a back door while the player leads another team through the front door in the first-person view. A few button pushes shifts the player's control to the other team. Realism is key here, and 20 minutes of planning may end with one bad move. That is, if the terrorist responds intelligently--the artificial intelligence (AI) is a bit buggy at times. Two players can complete missions together, creating a multiplayer option that sure is a welcome change from running around with guns blazin'. --Eric Twelker

  Pros:

  • An engrossing game, paced as one might expect from a novelist
  • Effective ambient sound effects
  • An excellent port from the acclaimed PC version

  Cons:

  • Realism is sometimes compromised by buggy AI
  • Graphics are a bit plain in some areas
  
   

• Winback: Covert Operations

  KOEI

  
  Metal Gear Solid and Goldeneye 007 fans take note: you need this game. Sure, main character Jean-Luc Cougar has a silly name, but his covert moves and daunting assignment rival that of a better-known, suit-wearing spy. Winback: Covert Operations is one of those games--you know, the hyper-engrossing, atmospheric type that suck you in until the graveyard shifters' lunch breaks.

  As S.C.A.T. (Strategic Covert Actions Team) members, players must disable a rash of terrorists who've taken over a powerful laser satellite defense system capable of leveling large regions with one burst. Jean-Luc stealthily plunges into the control center, buried deep in a mountainside, lined with bad guys. This isn't a first-person shooter; the over-the-shoulder view provides plenty of screen space to plan each sneaky move, going for surprise attacks rather than all-out, bullets-flying action.

  Once the player learns the somewhat complex, though natural and intuitive controls, manipulating Jean-Luc becomes an unconscious act. The fluid combination of The Matrix-style moves is entirely impressive: nothing like slinking silently against a wall, somersaulting into the open, picking off a terrorist, and then rolling into a crouch behind a crate. Just beautiful. --Eric Twelker

  Pros:

  • Excellent player controls, though difficult to master
  • Nice animation
  • Well-paced storyline

  Cons:

  • Simple weapons
  • Camera often errant, getting stuck behind walls or at bad angles at the worst possible times
  • Game saves only after reaching checkpoints, resulting in frequent restarts
  
   

• Army Men - Sarge's Heroes 2

  3DO

  
  
   

• BattleTanx 2: Global Assault

  3DO

  
  
   

• Mission Impossible

  Ocean

  
  
   

• Army Men Air Combat

  3DO

  
  
   

• Chopper Attack

  Midway Entertainment

  
  
   

• Aerofighter Assault

  Vic Tokai, Inc.

  
  
   

• BattleTanx

  3DO

  
  Sometimes a game with a preposterous premise ends up being extremely fun anyway. Such is the case with BattleTanx from 3DO. The story is a malicious virus has wiped out 99.9 percent of the world's female population. As the world collapses in nuclear chaos (huh?), the surviving women become leaders of vicious tank- driving gangs, who fight for territory across the former United States... oh, never mind. The point is: you have a tank, you're in New York, and you need to fight your way to San Francisco.

  On the way your tanks run a gauntlet of bridges, fortified towns, tunnels, and enemy tanks. You get to blow it all up. The scenarios are loaded with powered-up weapons like missiles, lasers, grenades, and mines, even tactical nukes. It takes skill and good aggressive tactics to win. Chances are you'll have a silly grin on your face the whole time. --Jeanne Uy

  Pros:

  • Tank-bustin' fun
  • Up to 4 players
  • Easy to control tank and weaponry

  Cons:

  • Silly plot and hokey cartoons
  • Multiplayer options do not include a cooperative campaign mode
  
   

• Nuclear Strike 64

  THQ

  
  
   

• Battlezone 64: Rise of the Black Dogs

  SPIG