Missile Command 3D

Missile Command 3D

released on Dec 31, 1995

Missile Command 3D

released on Dec 31, 1995

A remake of Missile Command

Missile Command 3D is an update to the classic Atari arcade game. The goal in Missile Command is to defend your cities against an onslaught of missiles coming from the sky. Your arsenal consists of three anti-missile flak cannons. You have to position the anti-missile clouds in the path of the incoming missiles to stop them from impacting. This Jaguar game has 3 modes. First, there is a port of the original arcade game. There are neat extras for this mode like graphic backdrops and the ability to resize or scale the screen. The second mode is Missile Command 3D. This mode retains the gameplay of the original, but adds 3D graphics to the mix. The final mode, Virtual Missile Command, changes things up quite a lot. Instead of anti-missile flak, your cannons shoot lasers. This means you don't need to lead your targets anymore. You play the game from a first-person perspective, and must switch between the three cannons via buttons on the keypad. There are nine levels in this mode, each with a boss at the end.


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Played as part of Atari 50.

Classic: It's a normal missile command port. It's fine.
3D: It's not even 3D, it's just really zoomed in. It kinda sucks.
Virtual: The actual 3D option, but now the defense is hitscan, removing pretty much all the strategy. Definitely way too choppy to play in actual VR without instantly getting a headache. It's fine.

(played as part of ATARI 50)

If they absolutely HAD to do this, I guess they could have done a worse job of it. But they didn't have to.

It's fine enough, it is a little tougher to get used to but I think Missile Command 3D is a great 3d adaption, though again it's just another missile command. And it is both accurate to the original arcade with 3 different missile cannons, but also having its own flair with the 3d, for what it's worth it's a fine version.

Played on Atari 50

The chase for VR has evidently been going on for a long time, and Missile Command 3D is a pretty solid early try. The standard mode looks and sounds decent, and the 3D version works actually pretty well. You have to aim the camera around but you do have a mini-map to help show you where the missiles are coming from. Performance struggles a bit in both modes sadly, but this is still definitely one of the better Jaguar games.