Blast Corps (N64)

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This is it. The final mission. Everything you’ve done so far comes to this. After here, the carrier will be en route to a safe detonation zone away from civilization. All you have to do is bring down the village of Glory Crossing. Kollar, Philip (August 4, 2015). "Rare Replay countdown: 30 Rare classics ranked from worst to best". Polygon. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015 . Retrieved August 22, 2015. To do this, you’re provided with a large number of demolition vehicles which range from straightforward (like a bulldozer) to bizarre (like a car that destroys buildings by ramping into them). Most of the vehicles are very unique and require a different strategy to get the most out of them. Some of them are very easy to use, while others require a lot of practice. Although many of the levels force you to use a specific vehicle, every now and then you’ll be required to switch between a few of them to accomplish your goal. Other times, you can find a simpler vehicle stashed away somewhere on a particularly difficult level, which will make things easier for you, if you can find them.

I was wondering why it took so long for somebody to let The Force off its chain and chase after the neighbor kids, but I'm so glad someone finally did it. The Force Unleashed lets you get in touch with your inner Sith, allowing you to launch, blow up, or otherwise decimate pretty much anything you can think of - and it's as amazing as it sounds. Wakeley, the game's designer, considered making a sequel as an action combat game, but thought the concepts behind Blast Corps had been fully exhausted. [4] After praising the game in a 2010 Rare retrospective feature, Retro Gamer 's writers craved a sequel. [19] The magazine said the title was proof of the company's inventiveness. Steve Ellis, who was a programmer at Rare, thought Blast Corps to be among the company's most underrated games, and though its physics were now dated, he continued to find the game fun enough to revisit regularly. [25] Blast Corps is included in Rare Replay, a compilation of 30 Rare titles, released on the Xbox One on August 4, 2015. [26] The release's bonus features included behind-the-scenes interviews with Blast Corps 's developers. [27] Blast Corps was a standout favorite among Rare Replay reviewers. [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] Blast Corps head to a major iron deposit where the carrier is rolling toward residential development. Unfortunately for new home owners, the first targets in this mission will be four sets of row houses. Hurry up because the carrier is really close here. Head down the hill and flatten four more rows with Sideswipe. Heading up the hill, you are sure to notice a giant, silver robot within a building. Punch down the walls and jump in Thunderfist. Miners here have set up major digging operations, so you’ll need Thunderfist to demolish this and let the carrier through. Gameplay [ edit ] Screenshot of gameplay in which the player uses a bulldozer to clear a path for the carrier. Radar and an arrow in the lower-left corner show the proximity of objects in the carrier's way. RADAR POINT: While in Ballista, drive around the left side of the cliff. Shoot missiles at an elevated, white building to reveal a satellite dish that you must walk down to get later on.

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Sanches, Joao Diniz (2010). "Blast Corps". In Mott, Tony (ed.). 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. New York: Universe. p.325. ISBN 978-0-7893-2090-2. Blast Corps is a 3D top-down vehicular action-puzzle game developed by Rareware and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 in Japan (on March 21, 1997), North America (on March 24, 1997), and Europe (on December 22, 1997). Much like those names above, Blast Corps takes some getting used to. Many game companies like to re-use and re-craft the same game controls over and over, but not Rare. Blast Corps plays like no other game out there; this guide is made to give players some advice before jumping into the stages themselves. Woah woah woah woah woah! What is this?! Before you lies a huge convention center, something so large that only a robot or TNT could demolish! There are no robots available, and there’s no…

Crane- As the only stationary object that can be controlled, the crane is used to move around vehicles and explosives. Put your loot onto the lift and then enter the tower. The lift will ascend automatically. Use A to push the lift further out and use B to pull it closer. Use R to drop the lift and Z to lift it. The boys in the development department of Rare are notorious for hiding clues and references in nearly every game. In Blast Corps, racing missions are required to advance. Certain vehicles are used in these missions: Polak, Steve (July 19, 1997). "A Clever Excuse for Wanton Destruction". The Weekend Australian. p.S07. Archived from the original on October 28, 2017 . Retrieved June 4, 2016– via LexisNexis. a b c d e Ward, Trent (April 28, 2000). "Blast Corps Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on December 2, 2018 . Retrieved December 1, 2018. If you do pass on all the collecting, however, Blast Corps is a very short game. In fact, I completed it in two very relaxed sittings. Even if you take the time to complete all of the side missions, the game is still rather brief. The only way to really squeeze the game to an appropriate length is if you try to achieve every gold medal. Then, if it’s still too short, you could always try and obtain the platinum medals, which are near impossible. That may have been the purpose of the game, but it still feels a lot like padding.

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Fox, Matt (2013). The Video Games Guide: 1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962–2012 (2nded.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p.31. ISBN 978-0-7864-7257-4. The first objective in the game is to clear all of the Carrier levels, but many more tasks await afterwards. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Schneider, Peer (March 26, 1997). "Blast Corps". IGN. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015 . Retrieved July 31, 2015. Dagger Pass: Take your time with the timing! You don't have to rush like crazy through this, so don't. The first one is right in front of you, with the second one down to the right. Continue this way to find the third one, then head up the screen to find the fourth. Continue up to find the castle, continue past it up the cliff side to find the fifth one hidden up here. Head down from here to find number 6, then just follow the ground around to find seven and eight. Beacon: Inside the castle. At one point in my life, Rare was my favourite game developer. Goldeneye, Banjo-Kazooie, Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, Perfect Dark; they were all extremely quality titles that I enjoyed thoroughly. It’s probably because of Rare that I became more aware of the developers that make the games I play. For some reason, though, I never really got into Blast Corps. I played it during the software starvation that usually comes with a newly released console, but it didn’t set my world on fire. It wasn’t until I finished college when my roommate cited it as one of his favourite games on the Nintendo 64 that I finally gave it some attention.

The next series of bonus missions use beacons to carry on from each other, starting with Geode Square. Players receive medals on a level to show progress. Clearing the path for the carrier earns a gold medal, and then a second medal is given depending on the number of survivors, buildings destroyed, and RDUs collected by the player. After the initial clear, the player can enter the level without a time limit and search for all of the collectables for 100% completion.RADAR POINTS: At the very beginning, reverse and disembark. It is right behind you. Also, go north on top of the marble hills. There is a path that leads to a road heading southwest. Take the RDU trail to the second satellite point. This is your first time with Ballista on a mission! I hope you studied up! Right off the bat you’ll have some missiles and some targets. While taking out the gas station and tenements, take note that the carrier is constantly on your tail. Be careful not to run into it or launch a missile at it on accident. This is a compact area, but after you take out the storage shed and the silos, the last three buildings are no problem. Skyfall: What you want to do here is boost over the edge and land between two of the containers. Then do the same for the last two. Otherwise you can use a mixture of boost and the ramps to just to small jumps into each one. Drive down the hill. Smash through the metal barn, then the adjacent house. Keep driving northwest and get through the gas station. Go through the pond and get the next metal shed, the house, and the big, red barn. This mission is just meant to acclimate you to the game play. No challenge, just more training. The Top 125 Nintendo Games of All Time". IGN. September 24, 2014. p.3. Archived from the original on December 29, 2016 . Retrieved December 29, 2016.

Mercury: Just a rather regular race, the vehicle choice doesn't even matter. Just make sure you don't crash into the middle island to waste time. J-Bomb: Another easy mission, try to make sure you go straight downwards to get all the way to the bottom of the structures. Drive across the bridge and over the hill. Boost your way to J-Bomb; hop on in and destroy the three high-rises in the center to clear the path. You can also fly on top of the cliff to the west and find a square that you can fall through. Follow the path to find the red car and a plethora of RDU’s. If you’re a completionist, this game may frustrate you. Hidden under the meat of the main game, there are a lot of collect-a-thon objectives. The optional objectives include: destroying all of the buildings, activating all of the RDU’s, and rescuing all of the trapped hostages. There are a lot of hidden areas lying in the middle of empty fields, but since the camera doesn’t like to show anything useful, they’re easy to miss. To add to this, there are a number of optional side missions that are never quite as fun as the main story missions. Of course, the key word here is optional, so there’s no use getting upset about features that you can just pass on. Finishing Bonus Levels will result in a Bronze, Silver, or Gold medal, depending on the finish time.The bonus levels mostly involve a race of some sort. Some of them are straight races, where the player must complete a course of four laps in the fastest time possible. In others, the player must demolish a certain number of buildings, or activate all RDUs. In some of these bonus levels, there are enemies or obstacles, such as water or lava, which, when touched, will cause the mission to fail. Half-Life 2 is a physics wonderland, a playground of see-saws, breakable boxes, and launchable buzzsaws. It blew our faces clean off of our faces when we played it ten years ago, and even now, the gravity gun is a total blast to use, letting you rip objects off of the walls and throw them at your hapless foes. And it doesn't get much better than the spooktacular sandbox found in Ravenholm.