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Blast Corps (or Blast Dozer in Japan) is a game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware that was released in 1997, in which the player must clear a path for a pair of defective nuclear missiles.
Plot
Two defective nuclear missiles are being moved to a location for a controlled detonation. However, they start to leak, and the carrier they are onboard automatically is set onto a direct course to the detonation site. However, there are many obstacles on the way, as the course takes it through many built up areas. The Blast Corps demolition company is given the task of clearing the route for the carrier and its missiles, to avoid a catastrophic explosion.
The game
The game is played on a series of levels, displayed on a map of the world. Completing one level, or finding secrets, may open up new levels to play. If a level is failed there is no penalty, each level can be tried as many times as necessary in order to complete it.
Carrier Levels
The Carrier Levels form the focus of the game. Here, the nuclear carrier has a set route, which takes it through a series of obstacles, usually including a number of buildings. You start in a demolition vehicle, such as a bulldozer, but may find other vehicles in the level. The main focus on such levels is action, as you must destroy buildings in the way of the carrier, before it crashes into them, but some obstacles require the solving of puzzles to solve. Some of these obstacles require the use of TNT blocks to destroy, whilst sometimes holes must be filled in with blocks, or a route through water or over railway lines must be covered by boats or trains respectively.
Once the route is clear for the carrier, there is are still things for the player to do. On each level are a number of secrets to find. On every level to fully complete it, almost all buildings must be destroyed, thus saving anyone trapped inside. Also, a number of Radiation Dispersal Units, or RDU's are contained around the level. Some of these are set up to guide the player around the level. There is no time limit, once the carrier's path is clear, for finding these secrets.
Time Trial Levels
Time Trial levels involve a race of some sort. Some of them are straight races, where you must complete a course of four laps in the fastest time possible. In others, you must demolish a certain number of buildings, or pick up RDU's. In some of these there are enemies, who you must not touch, or you fail the mission, whilst others have other deadly obstacles, such as water.
Among the time trial levels are practice levels, that introduce some of the more unusual demolition vehicles. These give some instruction in operating the particular vehicle, and sometimes have arrows to guide the play. However, these levels function in a similar way to a normal demolition style time-trial levels.
On some of the levels, you can choose the vehicle for the race. Here vehicles are only available if they have been found and driven on one of the carrier levels. However, some levels restrict the choice of vehicle. In any case, in one race, the player cannot change vehicles in the middle.
Demolition Vehicles
There are a number of Demolision vehicles in the game. Each has a different method of demolition, from the ramdozer, which is just a simple bulldozer, to the J-Bomb, a robot that stomps on the top of buildings. The following is a list of these vehicles:
Ramdozer
The Ramdozer is a fairly ordinary bulldozer, destroying the smaller buildings and obstacles, by ramming into them, but with little or no affect on the larger ones. However, its scoop can push TNT blocks, which can destroy some of these buildings.
Backlash
The Backlash is a fairly slow moving van. It can ram obstacles, with some effect, but it is much more effective to go into a skid, and cause the back end of the vehicle to collide with the chosen obstacle. As with the ramdozer, this is only effective against relatively small obstacles.
Skyfall
The Skyfall is a small and fast automobile, and can be made faster using a booster, which can run out if used constantly, but regenerates power when not in use. It's main method of destruction is to go at high speed up a ramp, using the booster, and land on obstacles. Again, it is only effective against relatively small obstacles.
Thunderfist
The Thunderfist is a large human operated robot, that is ideal for destroying large buildings, such as tower blocks, by running at them, then somersaulting into the side.
Cyclone Suit
The Cyclone Suit is also a robot, and similarly can destroy large buildings, this time by rollings into them.
J-Bomb
The J-Bomb is the third of the robotic demolition vehicles. It has a Jet-Pack, and uses this to fly above the target building then descending rapidly, crushing it.
Balista
The Balista is a missile carrying automobile, that destroying obstacles by firing missiles at them. The missile are in limited supply, and extra missiles can be found on the relevant levels.
Sideswipe
The Sideswipe is an automobile that destroying its targets by driving to the side of them, and extending rams on the left and right of the vehicle into them. This can be done a limited number of times, and tokens can be collected to allow them to be used more often, in a similar way to the missiles for the Balista.
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