The Double-A Team: their lives are in your hands - and your wife is in your arm - in Bionic Commando
The Double-A Team is a new feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.
Last week, Oli Welsh explored the hokey canine charms of Dead to Rights. Today we're taking to the skies with Bionic Commando.
At the core of it all is a perfect bit of animation. It's the leap that sells this game, the leap of faith. Off the edge of a staircase or out through a hole knocked in a wall, out, out into the open air. Arms reaching, chest forward, hurtling to the ground. And then the hook sizzles and rushes and clamps on and the line goes tight and you're yanked in a new direction. Onwards! Upwards!
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