Those ads look like they were printed around the time I was reviewing games for The Dallas Morning News. I remember previewing that Jackie Chan game at E3 anyway.
Game Ads and Double Kick Heroes
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 On 10/15/2022 at 11:41 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I got several Batman Gotham Knights comics recently and found them loaded with game ads from that time, early 2000s. Here are the pics:
Game Boy Color with Bionic Commando: Elite Forces on the screen and Jackie Chan: Stunt Master for Playstation.
Men In Black for GBC and 4 Wheel Thunder for Dreamcast.
Two-page ad for Wild Arms 2 for Playstation.
Twp-pager for Speed Punks on Playstion. Screenshots made me think of that Crash Bandicoot kart racer initially.
Two-pager of Everquest: Ruins of Kunark for PC.
Rally Challenge 2000 for N64 and Nightmare Creatures II for Playstation.
Terminus on PC and Fighter Destiny 2 for N64.
I don't think I've played any of these games, then or now.
But I did play Double Kick Heroes the other day. It was a Games with Gold freebie that I tried and soon got hooked on until I finished the main story. It's a rhythm/shooter game, if that makes any sense. You have a ribbon of notes along the bottom showing you the moments to hit the buttons and above you have your car/stage/gunship that shoots when you hit the buttons destroying enemies trying to catch you. The story is pretty neat as you travel a wasteland created by zombies. You are a metal band possessing a car loaded with weapons. The dialog and character names reference all sorts of metal trivial which is fun to recognize. In between levels you visit locations where your band members can talk to thinly veiled heroes of metal history.
There are a dozen or more real, presumably current, metal bands providing tracks for the levels. They are all pretty good. I only recognized one of them, Gojira, but even though most of them were unknown to me, I enjoyed the tracks a lot.
You can play story mode or just dive into levels. There are multiple difficulty levels to give you a crazy challenge if you wish. I played story mode to the end on easy difficulty. My fingers were plenty jittery enough after all that rapid button pressing. I played a few single levels and a few on the highest difficulty to check it out. Wow does it get faster than you can see the notes. Clearly you have to do it by ear solely to manage the tougher modes.
I enjoyed it and laughed when I saw this screen below.
That's your band there chillin' with a demon in the underworld.
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