Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Release Date: 5/31/1997
Date Played: 3/5/2020
Region: USA
Time Played: 15 minutes
What’d you think?: This is a 3rd person shooter from Konami. You’re Jack Burton, a former demolitions expert turned bomb defuser. Disgruntled scientists have planted bombs in Area 51 and you’re sent in to defuse them. You’re also probably meant to discover some conspiracy involving aliens and DNA because it’s at Area 51 and the name of the game is Broken Helix but I was shooting everything I saw, which included a security camera that I thought was a hostile robot. This enraged the scientist/bomber who lowered his time limit, triggering the bombs and ending the game. Games that start the player with time limits have never fared well on PS1Try. The game was also really tonally inconsistent, the goings-on were rather serious but the voice acting was over the top and sometimes when you’d stun the non-bomber scientists you’d say “Don’t blame me, it’s the guy holdin’ the controller!”
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-vEPJ7NWw
