Showing posts with label Danny Glover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danny Glover. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

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Grab a seat. Enjoy the show. This is history.

Ten years on from the first Predator movie, the sequel's setting is dramatically shifted from the steamy Mexican jungle to LA suburbia. Arnie is nowhere to be seen so the future of humanity rests in the capable hands of disgruntled, veteran cop, Danny Glover. His normal routine revolving around nailing viciously unscrupulous Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels must be put on hold when the Predator, a technologically advanced alien hunter, puts in an appearance to terrorise the already underfire city.

Whilst nowhere near matching the success of the first movie, Predator 2 returned a moderate box office profit. Therefore was considered sufficiently popular to spawn an accompanying multi-format video game courtesy of Arc Developments. It's a cross-hair targeting shooter played in third-person mode given that we see our protagonist, Lieutenant Michael R. Harrigan, onscreen as a wireframe sprite. Whilst cleaning up the streets of LA en route to the Predator's ship we must sustain our armour by collecting top-ups and upgrade weaponry to improve our chances as the difficulty level escalates.

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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

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Close is a lingerie shop without a front window

Ocean Software's Lethal Weapon, whilst dropping the three, was published in conjunction with the second sequel, inspired by its themes and plot. We choose to play as Martin Riggs or Roger Murtaugh, though there's no simultaneous two-player option. Between the five levels, the LA cop buddies must infiltrate illegal drug facilities, apprehend suicidal terrorists, defuse a bomb in a busy shopping mall, sneak into an office complex to rescue hostage, Leo Getz, and finally, nab a dodgy former cop who has been making a bit of pocket money on the side by peddling armour-piercing bullets.

Mostly we play on foot, elsewhere swimming underwater surrounded by sharks! Without breaking any new ground in the weary genre, it's a solid enough 2D, scrolling, action-platformer with cute, endearing visuals and one of the most gormlessly-grinning, head-boppable title music compositions the Amiga has to offer. That's something to aspire to in case that wasn't clear.

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