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"Body Harvest"

I just re-bought it for £7. You should all do the exact same, unless you were clever enough not to sell it in the first place:

"Some tasks are pure genius: a harvesting wave attacks an elementary school in America 1966. Your goal is to lead the children to the nearby church, but they're not getting on the school bus you hop into. Hop into an ice cream truck named Mr. Lolly, and watch the children follow. Mr. Lolly's "weapon" is a hilarious ice cream jingle. Imagine slowly driving an ice cream truck down the street, jingling a happy tune, aliens are beaming down and attacking all around you, and you have about 20 children following after you that you need to lead to the church. It's moments like this that make you realize the brilliance of Body Harvest's gameplay."

Hedfix wrote:
> Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if
> they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are
> stuffed.

Ah, but in RPGs pretty much every attack connects, just does little damage. In reality if a hit connects an armoured person it will either bounce off the armour and do no damage (apart from maybe knocking the person back a little) or it will break the armour / go through a gap in the armour and pierce the flesh, likely causing a pretty severe wound. But in most RPGs enemies can take quite a few hits, as can your characters...

Anyway, this is rather a ridiculous debate... Videogames aren't generally meant to be realistic... In all the alien invasion, cloning, etc. world of Hybrid Heaven the one unrealistic thing picked up on was a bloke beating up a machine with his fists... :-|

Sibs wrote:
> But to be fair if you analyse the combat in any turn based RPG type
> game it is completely unrealistic... How many sword slashes does it
> usually take to kill someone in reality...?

Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are stuffed.

The monsters were disgusting at times. They were ll very inventive, but then you fight them and all they can do is punch, kick and do piledrivers. It was so odd.

But to be fair if you analyse the combat in any turn based RPG type game it is completely unrealistic... How many sword slashes does it usually take to kill someone in reality...?

Heh. Hybrid Heaven was OK, but towards the end it just got sooooo repetetive. Shame really, as with more emphasis on proper RPG style action such as towns/city areas, it could have been really great.

Also some of the combat got plain stupid (plus mno weapons apart from pistols?!).... after all, how would a guy PUNCH a robot to bits... He'd destroy himself trying!! lmao

I got to the first stage of the US level, and then got PD or something.

The final stages of America are amazing. Really, really cool.

I may bother to load up my N64 and try and get through Russia and win the game at some point.

Hybrid Heaven was kind of repetitive, but the combat system was very original and worked quite well, just needed a bit more polish to it. There were some great moments in there, but altogether it was a little 'clunky'... Like Body Harvest really. Rough around the edges.

I got to Russia on Body Harvest, but I don't think I could ever get past the first stage of Russia. You have to get some crank thing for the train, but when you come out of the house its in, these huge floating aliens with big machine gun type weapons come down and all you've got is a crummy shotgun and no vehicle because that village is cut off by a large puddle... :(

Vile game. First level of Java, Alien Processor (which I've done 5 times before), bloody got my airboat blown up. I had to use my hunting rifle and roll out from a rock and fire and roll back. I would've won if those missile things didn't come - i had to spray the air with machine gun fire and then shoot the processor again. I died. It sucks.

WAHHHHHHHH!

Oh, and I remember, I got an alien weapon on Java. It kicked ass.

I only didn't like Shadowman because it scared me HARD core. And lots ofit is very boring. You never experienced Click Clock wood? You are in for a treat and a half!