Mission: Impossible was supposed to launch in 1996, much closer to the movie's box office debut and the debut of the N64 itself. I don't want to infer Ocean and Infrogrames phoned in Mission: Impossible's production it's easy to pick up the echoes of pain seeping from the cartridge. Tom Cruise's likeness wasn't allowed in the game, and while I'm not a huge fan of Cruise, I'm glad the world was able to offer him that small mercy.
The game's main character, Ethan Hunt (who else) has access to technology that lets him swap his face with high-ranking enemy commanders and whatnot, and whenever he performs his parlor trick, he looks like a psychotic clown pulling on a skin mask sewn together from unfortunate victims. Its controls are slow to respond to commands, its few voice clips are muffled, and its character models aren't much more than stacks of polygons with frighteningly low-res bitmaps stretched over them.
What a day."ġ998's Mission: Impossible for the N64 (based on the 1996 movie of the same name) is such a perfect example of this "mediocre licensed N64 game syndrome" that you may as well just use the game's name as a substitute for the phenomenon. "Great, the Japanese restaurant gave me the wrong bento box, and the sky's turned two different shades of blue. And let's be honest with ourselves here: Even a gem like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is so visually unappealing by today's standards, nobody should fault you for breaking out its Nintendo 3DS remaster instead. Whereas 16-bit licensed games usually at least offer bright colors, most 3D licensed titles from that wild pioneer age are muddier, jaggier, and more troublesome to control than first- and- second-party N64 titles. Licensed N64 games are especially disheartening to look at and play. They're usually condemned as cynical cash-ins that deservedly languished in bargain bins before collectors snapped them up to languish on rec room shelves instead. Most retro licensed games aren't regarded fondly.
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