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    Bionic Commando

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released 1987

    Bionic Commando follows hero Rad Spencer as he fights through enemy territory to rescue fellow commando, Super Joe.

    burningdoom1's Bionic Commando (Nintendo Entertainment System) review

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    Swing Life Away in This Fantastic Capcom Gem

    Bionic Commando for NES

    This is hands-down of the greatest games to ever come out on the NES, and in my book, that's really saying something. But what more would you expect from the house that brought you Mega Man, Duck Tales, Street Fighter II, and Resident Evil? That's right, this is a Capcom classic here.

    This game perfectly blends the genres of side-scrolling platformer and run-n-gun action game perfectly. It's 2D bliss. The gameplay mechanics are easy to pick up, yet difficult to master at the same time. Something a lot game developers have completely neglected to do nowadays. When you do master the game mechanics, the game just flows. The graphics are quite impressive for an NES game. And the music is some of the greatest music you have ever heard in an NES game.

    You play as the army's latest and greatest super-soldier known simply as The Bionic Commando. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy lines, collect important information and weapons along the way, and to ultimately rescue capture soldier and American hero: Super Joe. You battle hordes of enemy soldiers and weaponry that has an uncanny resemblance to WWII Nazis. The catch is you have a bionic arm grafted to you that leaves you too heavy to jump. Instead you use your bionic arm to grapple to objects and climb them, or too swing from objects like Spider-Man or Tarzan.

    Along the way you'll collect power-up items and new weapons, and the enemies and obstacles involving using your bionic become harder and harder. But NES players don't fret, even though this get can get difficult, there is a continue option, and if you play your cards right you can have unlimited continues. In between levels there is a world map you use to travel from level to level. On that world map are also "tanks", and if those tanks cross your path, you go into a bird's eye view action scene, much like the old "Commando" game. If you defeat the larger enemies in these small arcade-style stages, they will earn you continues.

    I highly recommend this game. I still play it after all these years when I want to unwind, it's that good. I personally consider it to be Capcom's crowning jewel for their NES releases.

    Other reviews for Bionic Commando (Nintendo Entertainment System)

      Solid State Game Review: Bionic Commando (NES) 0

      Game Title: Bionic CommandoRelease Date: December 1988Developer: CapcomGenre/Type: 2D PlatformerGame Rating: [V/V][Editor's Choice] This is by far the most revolutionary platforming game to ever come out… With the advent of the Nintendo Entertainment System, many third party developers flocked to it for it’s relatively large install base. However, finding that this console is technologically limited, developers toiled in the effort of squeezing every little bit of performance out of the popular...

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      Going Commando 0

      I never played this game when it originally came out, but even today this game strikes one as near-genius.The only thing most people remember or know about the NES version of Bionic Commando is the hook by which you swing around all the while shooting at your enemies in this vertically (and horizontally) scrolling action platformer. But there are other "hooks" in the game, both for casual and hardcore gamers - enough, in fact, to make this a worthy revisit even despite of its age. Talking of har...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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