Mission Impossible Speed Run Part 1 - Lundkwist Base

This is a speed run for Mission Impossible on the Nintendo 64. I did not do this speed run. I got it from www.speeddemosarchive.com. I got it for all those Mission Impossible fans out there, and non-fans alike. So please don't accuse me of copyright infringement, or plagurism. Enjoy.


Total Time = 1:10:38. On Mission: Impossible difficulty (hard): By David Gibbons.




Author's comments:

I made these segments for my friend Cyberwrath in the summer of 2004. Mostly, he just wanted to see how the game panned out (he had only played roughly 1/3 or 1/2 of it). I took it upon myself to have some fun and do the stages fairly quickly on mission impossible mode (read: hard). I never thought of sending these in to SDA because the game isn't very popular (or, in many levels, good). Brad convinced me otherwise, as is evident by this page.

As for the run itself, it's OK. It's somewhat obvious it's not a full fledged speed run because I make a point to not rush through the dialogue -- I hang on to each text bubble for several moments, allowing the viewer (ahem) to read. Other than that glaring fact these runs are pretty optimized, for the most part.

There are some cool moments in the game...and some funny ones -- funny because they shouldn't be. Brad and I much enjoyed laughing at the inane things Ethan says to himself. He'll be in a hallway, trying to be covert and distract a guard, and when he succeeds he'll shout "WAY TO GO!" or "...piece OF CAKE!"

The game also suffers from terribly embarrassing hitbox and bullet detection problems. First off, guards in some circumstances take up to two seconds to react to bullets. Also, they tend to do a back flip upon their death, for no apparent reason. The peak of this form of hilarity manifests itself in the warehouse stage, where a guard rushes up to Ethan, staring at me without moving. I quickly shoot him in the head once, and then lower my crosshair. After an awkward passing of time with no apparent reaction the guard suddenly flips violently backwards. This game is golden.

There's one more really funny part in the game -- the train station. You're supposed to cover Ethan from undercover bad guys. Good enough. But you also can't shoot civilians. Sometimes someone in the crowd will run up to Ethan, reach in their pocket and with great ado pull out a...cell phone; or a glass of wine. Why they have a glass of wine in their jacket is never revealed -- or why they like to jog before taking a sip in public.

Also, shooting one civilian means the mission is over. During a small chase, as I was shooting the bad guys and watching their stupid death animations, an innocent woman ran in front of my bullets and got nicked in the head, hitting the ground hard. I tensed up, realizing I failed...but the failure screen never came. I guess she wasn't so innocent after all.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Mission
• Impossible
• Speed
• Run
• Lundkwist
• Base
• Nintendo
• 64

[clacleclicloclu]

how do you change identity??????

[bigboss643]

@clacleclicloclu After you take out the guy, go near his body, press B, press Down-C to highlight the facemaker, and then press A.

[holkenberg1]

LOL the graphics look like shit now, but i must admit that this one of my favorite n64 games, awesome game for that time

[MrRambo4]

@TheRealHackmaster thax dude :)

[TheRealHackmaster]

@MrRambo4 Fully agree with you, this was an underrated game

[MrRambo4]

I loved it back than when i whas little kid and i love it now and now i am 28 and still love it not just because its mission impossible but because it have so cool music in it :)

[MULTIOLIVEMAN]

this might have bad graphics, but thats how i like it, the cheesier, the better!

[dan24591]

@pavelmdify graphics may be better now, but gameplay certainly isn't. the games from this era were the absolute BEST. i truly feel for people that didn't have a chance to own an N64/PS1 at the time they were the biggest and best in the market. N64 probably had some of the most memorable games and soundtracks of all time.

[SarangHrist]

N64 lol

[SolidSnake684]

this game kicked ass back in the day. All the secret disguise stuff you had to day. Uh.. just brilliant. Now i just a nostalgia trip for some people, including myself. Although i never could beat this game as a kid.

[lprandyb]

Looking at this game now, its awful, but back in the day i loved it

[NAMEMEPLEASE]

So the driver never thought to look behind him and see his "boss" and an enemy spy lying on the bed of his truck? Lol, I remember when this game was new.