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Last Action Hero

Review

This side-scrolling brawler and driving game tasks you with stopping a villain's plot to invade the real world.

The DOS version of Last Action Hero was released in 1994 by Sony Imagesoft. The original game, based on the film, first appeared on consoles (NES/Genesis/SNES) in 1993.


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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1994
Original release
1993
Perspective
Side view
Visual
2D scrolling
Size
4.90 MB
Version
AUTORUN.BAT
Rating
0 votes

About Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero is a 16-bit game adaptation that blends side-scrolling combat with vehicle-based stages. The player assumes the role of Jack Slater, navigating through four primary levels that draw inspiration from specific movie sequences, including scenes set within the film world and the real world.

Gameplay involves progressing to an exit before a timer or health depletes, facing various armed enemies along the way. Life can be restored by collecting movie tickets that appear. The experience is made more challenging by boss confrontations concluding most stages, such as fights against The Ripper and the villain Benedict. A unique hazard in one version involves a crosshair that tracks and fires at the character.

Between the brawling sections, driving sequences require avoiding obstacles and destroying enemy cars by using ramps to land on them. Brief cutscenes provide a loose narrative connection to the film's plot, bridging the different types of action.