Hi guys,
I just got my "old write-up" I made for Body Harvest back in 2005! Yes, "got", not "found". Credit goes to my fiancé Pam. I looked all over for the old floppy disk and searched my old PC and I couldn't find it. My fiancé actually found it at work in her email and emailed it to me. Yay! :happy:
Here it is, it was written back in 2005 but...enjoy:
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I am playing GTA San Andreas right now and a few days ago I played a mission called "Body Harvest". I had to go get a Harvester (Farm equipment) which is also in Body Harvest, and do the same the same thing with it as in Body Harvest for a guy who also looks the same as the guy in Body Harvest.
It was only a few months ago that I read in a Game Mag "Rockstar used to be called DMA" (the guys who made Body Harvest) that I put 2 and 2 together. Body Harvest is the FIRST GTA!
I just bought my seventh copy of this game. The first one I rented 3 times and then kept it!!! I've beaten it Twice on Easy and Once on Hero. I have been giving them away so people can experience this "best game of all time"! It got an award for best sleeper hit game of the year. Kind of what happened to Conker as PS was the bigger system at the time.
So, a little (very little) about this huge game:
-at least 4 times bigger than GTA Vice city
-5 different worlds that all feel almost as big as San Andreas
-5 different time periods. You can hijack everything from Model-T type cars to modern, and futuristic vehicles.
-over 80 vehicles, all with Different (!!!) - looks, handling, speed, power, transmissions, suspension, features, abilities and mostly...weapons.
-at least 15 planes, 7 tanks, 7 helicopters, 12 boats, 40 cars, trucks, trains, fire engines, hovercraft, swamp boats, turrets, harrier jets, and more!!!
-over 100 different enemies that all look different, and have a specific RANK and JOB to do!
-over 30+ different weapons - ALL your standard weapons, + special weapons, + unique weapons on most vehicles!!!(Like "Howitzer" carpet bomb, and SCUD Missile Launcher that you must first carry with a helicopter that can transport any vehicle, then launch the missile and then steer it to it's target in FIRST PERSON view leaving a real time crater deformation in the ground!
-Houses, caves, sewers, and buildings that house useful people, items, secrets, and secret paths!
-Can light Fire Places, candles, lamps, torches, turn on light switches, turn valves, ect....Try it, and you will find something.
-Buildings can be set on fire and/or destroyed by you and the enemy!!!
-can choose to do things asked of you or not. No "missions" to enter and fail. What you do is your choice. Choose wisely!
-perfect sound, crank it up, trust me!
-BEST Boss fights in gaming history, even today!!! Will kick your ass even after your dead and splattering blood all over the ground.
-full 3D open worlds and adventure.
-Pedestrians!
-More,more,more....
-like GTA for all the obvious reasons
-like Metriod and Zelda for the open ended adventure/role-playing elements (Metriod - ship lands on planet, out comes the hero into an open ended adventure in a yellow and orange body suite!!!)
Wassaa......crazy, ain't it? Let me know what you think.
In my opinion GTA should be more like this game, and/or Rockstars next game should be "GTA Body Harvest".
If you want a copy just let me know and give you one!!! It's that good!!!
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So, I ended up giving away about 10 more copies of Body Harvest because of this. :crazy: I do what I can.
Since then I have learned even more how ambitious this game really is. Still to this day there is NO game that covers the scope that this game did. And it was a FIRST attempt by the guys who made GTA! It even lets you do more than GTA ever did. You can swim. You can use Motorcycles, airplanes, helicopters, boats, hovercraft, swamp boats, tanks, military gunships, bombers, gyro planes, even spaceships and MORE.......over 5 different worlds and 5 different time periods all with relevant myth, lore, legend, adventure and missions that are custom to the town, village, city or planet that you are on and current situation you and the people of the world are in. The enemies are also not repeated from one time period to another. As time passes, as the human race advances, so does the enemies tech. In the beginning they are bugs, and for EACH LEVEL in EACH WORLD you will confront NEW enemies. Bigger and badder enemies. Enemies that become more mechanical...and deadly. More advanced than the last and they never look the same. They are all different models, not just color pallet swaps.
Oh, sorry. I could go on forever. :crazy:
Welcome back, have fun and TTYL