You would figure that with all the time it spent being delayed, a better game would have come out of it.

User Rating: 5.5 | Mission: Impossible N64
By Saruman1719 | Review Date:
It seems like just yesterday when my friends and I were hyping this game up. Everything we read and saw about it in magazines led us to believe that it would easily rank among the very best of the N64 library. However, it seemed that month after month, one thing became very clear...the game looked like it was never going to come out. While I can't remember exact dates, it seemed that it was due out one spring, then it was pushed back to the summer, then the fall, then winter...and then it started all over again. Once it did finally hit store shelves, one of my friends bought it immediately and we all sat down to finally experience it.

Unfortunately, the game did not live up to expectations. It started off slow, the graphics were average even back then, and as time went on, it became disappointingly obvious that things were not going to improve much. Sure, the game is somewhat varied, be it going through stealth sequences and other spy-like activities and a fair amount of action, however, the whole package was just lackluster. Many people point out that the longer a game spends in development and is even delayed a couple of times, the better the game will turn out...if that's the case, I don't even want to know how bad this game was before the delays.

The one highlight of the game to me was the Embassy Party, mentioned in Gamespot's own review. This was indeed a very well done level and if every stage played out like this, the game would have been brilliant. There were numerous goals to complete to get out of the level and each one flowed perfectly. Now that I think about it, all the magazine articles seemed to only be written about the things that happened in this level...small wonder I figured this would be an amazing game. As with every individual, my own experience with my friends shaped this level and makes me fondly remember this part of the game, and that period in my life, 10 years later. Small things like being a "rapist in the bathroom", to "I must deliver my diploma to the President" and "trying to be a bad man's boyfriend" mean little or nothing to anyone, other than my friends and I. Those were the days and I'm happy that this game was at least able to inspire us to coin terms like those while playing this game in our youth.

So in the end, once I put aside my personal memories of the game, it is not hard to advise avoiding this game. I do own my own copy because I felt it was worth the few dollars to pull out the cart every now and then and relive the great memories that one level did provide. Otherwise, the game is simply average and was unable to live up to the hype.

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