Thunder in Paradise
Thunder in Paradise, developed by Mass media, Philips POV and published by Philips Interactive in 1995.
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Player's Review
"HERE'S YOUR SHOT AT PARADISE, BRO. YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE WITH YOUR COHORTS SPENCE (TERRY "HULK" HOGAN) AND BRU (CHRIS LEMMON). BLAST YOUR WAY THROUGH THREE MIND-BLOWING ACTION ENCOUNTERS AS YOU ATTEMPT TO RESCUE SPENCE'S DAUGHTER JESSICA, REGAIN CONTROL OF THE M.A.J.O.R. AND CRUSH YOUR ARCH ENEMY, RAMPIKE.
TAKE CONTROL OF THE BOAT'S WEAPON SYSTEMS AND DEFEND THUNDER FROM A SHOWER OF DEADLY THREATS. BATTLE YOUR WAY THROUGH RAMPIKE'S EVIL ARMY TOWARD THE ULTIMATE CONFRONTATION. SAVE JESSICA AND YOU'RE A HERO. FAIL AND... IT WON'T BE PRETTY, DUDE! THIS AIN'T NO NORMAL VIDEO GAME, MAN. IT'S INTERACTIVE TELEVISION AND YOU ARE THE STAR."
Whilst FMV game get a bad wrap today, when this game came out it was a must own title for the Philips CDi. The PC version, not so much. It is pretrty poor when you compare the two releases side by side but the CDi does owe it's high quality to the required digital video mpeg decoder card.
From the start you get to choose which mode you want to play. You can go directly into the action in Game Mode and choose which encounter to play or play Interactive movie mode which takes you through the story and the game encounters. The first encounter in Thunder goes on for way to long and I don't think you even need to bother with it as it always ends the same way. Let it play it self until defeated to move onto the next stage.
Encounter two takes place on the island and becomes an fmv shooter. How well you do here decides who you play as in the next encounter. The third encounter takes place in the lab and who you play as determines if you get targeting assist or not as well as if you will get the good or less good ending although the less good one has an extra stage and more story!
What I found really annoying throughout is the random cuts to Spence or Bru for some negative feedback although your winning. It's confusing and left me wondering if I'm playing right. Overall, its overly simplistic for an fmv game. Id like to have seen what 'Digital Pictures' could have done with the game, maybe something like Ground Zero Texas.
The longplay shows the initial run of interactive mode doing as well as I can in the first encounter and I guess you only can lose this game mode but you get a better ending to it if you did well. This is followed up by looking at the games mission database which would have been better at the start before moving onto the second encounter. I survive this take control of the Major and move onto third encounter again surviving and killing the bad guy before getting what I presume is the best ending. Following the games conclusion I show some failure videos before showing an alternate third encounter playing as Zak if you do badly in encounter two. This has an extended level with a less good ending.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:32 Movie 1
00:06:40 Thunder Encounter
00:17:28 Mission Database
00:24:43 Movie 2
00:26:15 Island Encounter
00:32:53 Movie 3
00:33:40 Lab Encounter
00:42:36 Good Ending
00:43:46 Credits
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00:47:30 Failure clips
00:51:14 Alternate Lab Encounter
01:06:06 Less Good ending
TAKE CONTROL OF THE BOAT'S WEAPON SYSTEMS AND DEFEND THUNDER FROM A SHOWER OF DEADLY THREATS. BATTLE YOUR WAY THROUGH RAMPIKE'S EVIL ARMY TOWARD THE ULTIMATE CONFRONTATION. SAVE JESSICA AND YOU'RE A HERO. FAIL AND... IT WON'T BE PRETTY, DUDE! THIS AIN'T NO NORMAL VIDEO GAME, MAN. IT'S INTERACTIVE TELEVISION AND YOU ARE THE STAR."
Whilst FMV game get a bad wrap today, when this game came out it was a must own title for the Philips CDi. The PC version, not so much. It is pretrty poor when you compare the two releases side by side but the CDi does owe it's high quality to the required digital video mpeg decoder card.
From the start you get to choose which mode you want to play. You can go directly into the action in Game Mode and choose which encounter to play or play Interactive movie mode which takes you through the story and the game encounters. The first encounter in Thunder goes on for way to long and I don't think you even need to bother with it as it always ends the same way. Let it play it self until defeated to move onto the next stage.
Encounter two takes place on the island and becomes an fmv shooter. How well you do here decides who you play as in the next encounter. The third encounter takes place in the lab and who you play as determines if you get targeting assist or not as well as if you will get the good or less good ending although the less good one has an extra stage and more story!
What I found really annoying throughout is the random cuts to Spence or Bru for some negative feedback although your winning. It's confusing and left me wondering if I'm playing right. Overall, its overly simplistic for an fmv game. Id like to have seen what 'Digital Pictures' could have done with the game, maybe something like Ground Zero Texas.
The longplay shows the initial run of interactive mode doing as well as I can in the first encounter and I guess you only can lose this game mode but you get a better ending to it if you did well. This is followed up by looking at the games mission database which would have been better at the start before moving onto the second encounter. I survive this take control of the Major and move onto third encounter again surviving and killing the bad guy before getting what I presume is the best ending. Following the games conclusion I show some failure videos before showing an alternate third encounter playing as Zak if you do badly in encounter two. This has an extended level with a less good ending.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:32 Movie 1
00:06:40 Thunder Encounter
00:17:28 Mission Database
00:24:43 Movie 2
00:26:15 Island Encounter
00:32:53 Movie 3
00:33:40 Lab Encounter
00:42:36 Good Ending
00:43:46 Credits
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00:47:30 Failure clips
00:51:14 Alternate Lab Encounter
01:06:06 Less Good ending
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