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Blast Corps | 
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Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $2.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 7048
Platform: Nintendo 64
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.9 x 1.3
MPN: 1420840
Model: NINTENDO 64 VERSION
UPC: 045496870102
EAN: 0045496870102
ASIN: B00002STEX
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 A Blast to Play September 26, 2007
Originally reviewed at Last-Gen.com:
Released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64, Rare's Blast Corps is a blast (gasp) to play.
Explosions have an important role in Hollywood because it sells like hotcakes. Terminator 2, Die Hard, Speed, etc. and the list goes on: it just wouldn't be the same. The exact rule applies for video games, and sometimes a cool explosion can make you feel super cool, saying "holy crap, I did that!" Blast Corps is one of those games that keeps you in explosion heaven.
The premise of Blast Corps is pretty simple: clear a pathway for the missile carrier. For some strange reason the carrier is carrying two unstable nuclear warheads that will go off at the slightest touch, and some genius decided that it'd be a good idea to have the thing on auto-pilot. You basically exercise the classic horror film cliche: run as fast as you can from the slow-moving antagonist to stay alive, breaking everything in your path to reach safety. Thankfully, you have powerful vehicles and giant robots in your arsenal of demolition machines.
There are eight vehicles for you to control, and each offer a different type of gameplay. Ramdozer (bulldozer) is the simplest, where you just ram things to destroy them; J-Bomb (giant robot) can fly with its jetpack and fall onto buildings to destroy them (think Mario's butt stomp in Super Mario 64), and six more gameplay styles. The graphics are pretty nice with clean models and colorful explosions. I personally liked the music, surprisingly good considering its genre (what is the genre?). The sound effects are of course good, though the explosions sound kind of cheesy. It is nice that the game has talking characters, I catch myself saying "Time to get moving!" after playing this game for a while, it's very contagious.
Blast Corps is very fun to play alone and with friends taking turns since it doesn't support 2-player. I can also recommend this to younger kids since it's full of Tonka and giant robot goodness without any violence (that's of course if you don't consider explosions `violence'). Overall, a must-have for any Nintendo 64 gamer!
 Rare used to make good games May 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Up until they were bought by microsoft and half their staff left, Rare used to make awesome games. This is one of them. Blast Corps is one of the hardest games I have ever played and yes maybe a little too hard. But, look at it this way, it's been about a decade since it came out and I still have a reason to play it. Getting all platinum medals is probably the most ridiculous task in video game history. This is what I like about Nintendo games, even though you beat it, you didn't really "beat" it, Like goldeneye with all the cheats, or mario kart ds with 3 stars. some of the vehicles are hard to control but that's pretty much the point of the vehicle. On the plus side, if you like a challenge then this is a great game for you. On the down side, you will probably never be able to beat it all the way.
Good, but too difficult at times June 22, 2006
Its a good game. It's not that hard until the levels late in the game (i.e. diamond sands) and it is fairly addictive. It is very fun but gets tedious if you get stuck in a harder level. Also, Backlash is rather hard to control even with practice.
HOWEVER: it is worth your time even with the issues with backlash and the harder levels. Most of the game is very creative and decently difficult.
 Fun July 9, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's fun to destroy stuff in this game. Blowing up whole towns just doesn't get old. I don't know how successful this game was, but it seems it was underrated. I rented it once and enjoyed it a lot. The only problem I had with it was it got pretty difficult after finishing some of the easier levels, and I don't think there were all that many easy levels.
 Nauseating! April 20, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I remember burrowing this from a friend because I ran out of N64 games to play so I burrowed this and some other games for a few days. I have to say it was fun at first, than it became frustrating, and than I felt like I was going to throw up because of the weird controls and this and that moving around in weird places which I didn't intended in doing. It was also because I was really young then and I really didn't know what the game was really about, which is puzzle solving sometimes.
I advise not buying the game, instead tell your friend to buy it because its the best game ever and take it from him when he wants to throw it out. Of course you'll lose a friend, but well worth it! Game > Friendship. I'm just playing kids.
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