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Body Harvest came out for the Nintendo 64 in 1998, developed by DMA Design, the same studio that would later create Grand Theft Auto III. It was a strange and ambitious game for its time, a third person action adventure that felt different from most other N64 titles. You could see its ideas pushing against the limits of the hardware and the genre conventions of the late 90s.

You control a soldier named Adam Drake, sent back in time to stop an alien invasion that is systematically harvesting humanity. The main objective is to protect groups of civilians in large, open areas across different time periods, from 1916 Greece to 1966 America. Your primary tools are a wide array of vehicles, which you must commandeer to traverse the landscape and fight the alien swarms. The game is structured mission by mission, but each location is a sizable map to explore freely. Combat involves running over aliens with cars, shooting them with mounted weapons, or getting out to use limited personal arms. The pacing is relentless, as you are constantly racing against a clock to save people before the harvest is complete, and the difficulty can be punishing. Playing it feels like being in a chaotic, desperate battle against an overwhelming force, where your success hinges on smart use of the environment and whatever vehicle you can find.