This is a man who pick his nose with a bayonet and wipes his arse with sandpaper. note
03:03 a.m. - Army Convoy Bravo 288 was attacked en route to base. This attack resulted in the loss of an experimental nuclear missile.
Your mission is to eliminate the terrorist threat and prevent activation of the nuclear device.
Good Luck.
Your mission is to eliminate the terrorist threat and prevent activation of the nuclear device.
Good Luck.
Lone Soldier is a 1996 action game made for the PlayStation, following the Run-and-Gun behind-the-back style made popular by games like Cabal and Blood Bros earlier, where you get to play as the titular soldier to pull a One-Man Army on legions and legions of terrorists.
The titular soldier, Hank (named in the manual but not in-game) is mankind's last hope when a terrorist legion get their hands on an experimental nuke. And as Hank levels his way through entire legions of enemies, he uncovers a far bigger plot involving an extraterrestrial conspiracy...… wait, what?
Lone, Locked and Loaded...
- Adaptation Species Change: In the German release, Hank is inexplicably turned into a Cyborg. He's even depicted as one in the cover art
. - Alien Invasion: The final stage of the game, inexplicably, have aliens suddenly invading earth, and you're dispatched to end it by infiltrating their mothership.
- Arm Cannon: The alien leader Final Boss have these on both arms, and will use them to spam bullets all over the place.
- Battleship Raid: After you spent the past few stages in jungles, valleys, urban warzones, the final stage have you inexplicably infiltrating an alien battleship and destroying it from within. Somehow.
- Bottomless Magazines: Your default Uzi can keep on firing forever, without even the need to reload.
- Carry a Big Stick: The Witch Doctor-turned-monster carries a club larger than you, which he'll use to smash you up.
- Covers Always Lie: See that mustachioed fellow that's supposed to be your player character? You look nothing like that in-game.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: You can destroy tanks, walls, armoured bunkers and the like with the default infinite ammo-laden Uzi. By spending several minutes firing at anything destructible in the game (and making it flash to make the player aware of it's status of being hurt) a torrent of 9mm bullets could make buildings not only be destroyed, but destroyed in a giant plume of flame.
- Dual Boss: In the urban warzone, you fight a husband-wife Battle Couple of Super Soldiers. The husband can spam machine gun rounds all over the place as the wife use explosives instead, and can even pull a Shockwave Stomp if you got too near. The single healthbar shown during the boss battle is actually an indication of their collective health, each which they occupied half of.
- Eyepatch of Power: The mercenary boss on the helipad sports one on his left eye, to complete his "Look I'm such a badass" appearance.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon: You can obtain a flamethrower as one of the commonly available pickups.
- Gratuitous Ninja: The Urban warzone stage have ninja enemies, clad in masks, and wielding machine-guns, capable of leaping all around the place and far more agile than regular mooks. In a setting that appears to be Eastern Europe.
- Giant Mook: Tanks are recurring enemies that soaks up plenty of shots, but are easy targets because of their size and fires easily-dodgeable projectiles.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Most of the game is a military-themed shooter which have you battling soldiers, tanks, jeeps and the like, save for the first boss - after fighting your way through a tribal village, you then face a Witch Doctor who suddenly assumes a One-Winged Angel form, a twenty-feet tall troll-like monster who tries bashing you in with a massive club and can breath streams of green flames.
- Hollywood Natives: The second area of the first stage have you coming across a hostile tribal village, their members dressed in loincloths, having colourful features in their hair, and attacks by flinging spears and flaming clubs.
- Mecha-Mooks: The alien mothership in the final stage have robotic sentries alongside regular foot soldiers.
- Molotov Cocktail: The Urban stage have enemies dressed as punks who sometimes fling petrol bombs at you if you're close enough. Unlike grenades flung by common soldiers, the petrol bombs leaves a burning fire where it hits.
- One-Man Army: The game's title is Lone Soldier, and you're a single man against entire armies of insurgents.
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Using an Uzi!
- Witch Doctor: The tribal village's boss is their local shaman, who transform himself into a huge horned monster to battle you.
