I had to settle for a strange 400x300 graphics mode but it was still quite good and I even managed to push it up to 640x400 without the game becoming unplayable. Basically if you've got a P200 MMX with a flash graphics card, you're in for a treat.
However, the game supports Direct 3D and therefore presumably will work with the majority of 3D accelerators. It's not clear whether this is a fault with Die Hard Trilogy or my graphics card. I was devastated to find that my ATI Graphics card refused to work properly with the game. Having selected Direct 3D support, I was ready to go. However, there was the good old ATI 3D Expression Card to fall back on. I was quite impressed to see support for the funky new MMX chips but then quite disappointed to remember that my Pentium didn't support it. 'Bingo', I thought as a second screem popped up with options to turn on 3D Graphics Card and MMX support. Just as I was about to reduce the detail on everything, I noticed that there was a further menu of 'advanced' options. Having miserably failed to run the game in it's top detail mode I went back to the set-up menu. I wouldn't even begin to dream about running this game on anything less than a P100 and a P133 is really a bare minimum for beginning to get decent graphical performance. If you want to play Die Hard Trilogy you're going to need quite a fair whack of PC power.
I proceeded into the game and my P133 was brought tumbling to its knees. When faced with these options I foolishly decided to try out 800圆00 with full detail. There are also sliders to select how far into the horizon the graphics engine draws, how accurate the perspective is and how much detail the game uses. The screen modes supported basically depend on the amount of memory on your graphics card, but my 2MB card allowed anywhere up to 800圆00. However, before you get into the action it's worth taking a moment to set up the graphics options. When you start the game you are presented with a menu from which to chose which of the three films to play. Installing Die Hard Trilogy is a breeze thanks to the combined might of Windows 95 and DirectX. Each game in turn shall be considered below. Surely you'll end up with three weak games rather than one strong one? However, Die Hard Triology works remarkably well. Bundling three games together in one package initially sounds like a bad idea. Die Hard Trilogy is a set of three games based on the three films. The combination of violence and terrorists with strange European accidents provides excellent material for an action game. The Die Hard series of films are somewhat obvious candidates for being the basis of a computer game.
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