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Miami Vice

DOS - 1989

Yet another awful PC adaptation of a movie license by Capstone. In Miami Vice, you will take on the roles of Crockett and Tubbs from the movie (two players can play simultaneously in hotseat mode).

Gameplay is typical platform fare that we have seen hundreds of times before. Eight levels span several different mini-games, none of which is particularly memorable. The levels includes climbing through warehouses in search of contraband, driving a sports car, standard shoot-to-kill levels, and racing a speedboat after the bad guys. This last variant is the most fun, but unfortunately not enough to make up for the tedium of previous levels.

If you have played any other platform game by Capstone (e.g. Surf Ninjas), you will recognize this as another crappy release to avoid. Boring, to say the least.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Spurfect One 07 Oct. 2024

I mapped the keyboard controls to my controller thinking it would make this game a more enjoyable experience, boy how wrong was i. The characters keep moving in the direction you press even though you stopped pressing the direction, they get stuck on ladders leaving you open for an enemy to drop a bomb on you and switching between the two characters takes an age. Awful game.

0
vidyaWolf 17 Nov. 2017

Strange game. The controls are split up between mouse and keyboard.
You move your character and shoot the gun with the mouse and switch between characters with space. But it only works half of the time and is very annoying to say the least. There's no apparent reason why the mouse should be involved.

1
bill 22 Jan. 2013

is there a how to for the key board because we cannot move the characters6

2

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DOS version
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United Kingdom English
485 KB

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