True Lies
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Beam Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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True Lies (トゥルーライズ) is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear game based on the movie with the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Gameplay
Controls can be customized: The default layout is: for fixing the viewing direction,
for shooting and
for rolling; this grants temporal invincibility. The top buttons
,
and
are used to switch weapons. On a three button controller the game has to be paused to switch weapons.
Harry can take multiple hits before going down; health is restored by collecting medipacks. Most stages also feature non-hostile NPCs that Harry should not attack. Harry will be penalized for every 3 causalities.
Still shots from the movie are shown between stages. It is identical to the SNES version in terms of content, but wasn't optimized to make use of the systems higher resolution. However, the six button controller is supported. The game is played from a top down view, very similar to e.g. Techno Clash and takes a mission based approach: players have to find certain objects, defeat a certain enemy or flee from a section.
With a playthrough taking more than two hours, it's extraordinarily long considering the genre and time it was released in. Gore, another uncommon feature, is also present in form of blood splats and death sequences. Progress is recorded through passwords which are given after completing a mission.
Weapons
- Handgun (default, unlimited ammo)
- Shotgun
- Machinegun
- Grenades
All weapons aside from the Handgun have limited ammo. Weapons and extra ammo are scattered throughout stages and will be reset with each new stage.
Versions
The Sega Mega Drive game rom is identical in all releases and is not region protected. Comparing the SNES and Sega Mega Drive release, the SNES version has more vivid graphics thanks to it's color palette, although the sound is a bit muffled. It appears the SNES version was the lead development version and was then ported to the Sega Mega Drive. This is indicated by the use of low resolution mode (which is the SNES's standard resolution) and color usage, with plenty of dithering used to compensate for the systems 64 colors at once limit.
Magazine articles
- Main article: True Lies/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #70: "May 1995" (1995-0x-xx)[5]
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Game Gear version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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References
- ↑ File:CVG UK 160.pdf, page 44
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:NewReleasesCatalogueApril-May1995AU.pdf, page 15
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 File:MeanMachinesSega36UK.pdf, page 88 Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega30UK.pdf_p55" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 251
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 228
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 365
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 3, "" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 317
- ↑ Famitsu, "1995-05-05" (JP; 1995-04-21), page 1
- ↑ Freak, "5/95" (IL; 1995-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 3, Issue 5: May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 16
- ↑ GamePro, "May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 50
- ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 4, episode 16" (1995-01-03, 24:00) (+6:57)
- ↑ MAN!AC, "06/95" (DE; 1995-05-10), page 63
- ↑ Mega Fun, "03/95" (DE; 1995-02-22), page 70
- ↑ Next Generation, "June 1995" (US; 1995-05-23), page 113
- ↑ Player One, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 120
- ↑ Play Time, "4/95" (DE; 1995-03-08), page 109
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 July" (JP; 1995-06-08), page 52
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "April 1995" (UK; 1995-03-15), page 90
- ↑ Sega Power, "May 1995" (UK; 1995-03-16), page 64
- ↑ Svet Kompjutera, "Jul-Avgust 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 88
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Review, "2" (RU; 1996-01-03), page 158
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Junio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 38
- ↑ Top Consoles, "Juin 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 107
- ↑ Tricks, "5/95" (RU; 1995-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 206
- ↑ Video Games, "3/95" (DE; 1995-02-23), page 102
- ↑ VideoGames, "June 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 92
- ↑ Famitsu, "1995-06-02" (JP; 1995-05-19), page 34
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "September 1995" (UK; 1995-08-13), page 92
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Agosto 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 58
- ↑ VideoGames, "July 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 70
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