Detail is low, animation poor, characters blocky – in the wake of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Medal of Honor, Die Hard looks crude. Looks and Sounds Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza is a first-person shooter using the versatile Lithtech engine, backbone of such fine offerings as No-One Lives Forever and Alien vs. Sadly, all these points are missing from the game. It’s a great action flick noted for a stonking villain, displays of ingenuity on both sides, pulse-pounding set pieces and an all-too human hero who gets hurt and tired and frustrated rather than simply displaying the traditional action-hero square chin and invulnerability.

For those still interested, the game is based on the first film of the Die Hard series, in which cunning Alan Rickman takes over the state-of-the-art Nakatomi Plaza building as part of a deeply devious robbery, and only Bruce Willis, there to meet his separated executive wife, can stop the faux terrorists.