Vice: Project Doom (1991). Play Free Online

Summary

Vice: Project Doom blends side‑scrolling platform action, top‑down vehicle chase and on‑rails shooting into a single NES experience. Players guide agent Hart through eleven varied stages, starting and later revisiting a fast‑paced driving segment that puts you behind the wheel of a red Ferrari F‑40, shifting gears and blasting enemy vehicles.

The bulk of the game plays as a classic platformer with parallax scrolling, where you can jump, crouch, climb ladders and swap between three weapons – a limitless close‑range katana (or laser whip), a .44 Magnum pistol and stick grenades with limited ammo. Coins drop from enemies and can be hoarded for an extra life every hundred, while health is restored by picking up meat or other aid items. The rail‑shooter stages echo the style of Operation Wolf, letting you aim a gun and lob grenades from a static screen perspective.

Originally launched in Japan and North America in late 1991 by Sammy, the title resurfaced on modern consoles when Sega released it via the Nintendo Classics library for Nintendo Switch Online in August 2019. The service revival introduced the game to a new generation while preserving its original difficulty and arcade‑era charm.

Storyline

Vice: Project Doom on the NES packs a surprisingly cinematic plot for its era. In a bleak future, the B.E.D.A. Corporation hides an ancient alien race that produces an addictive drug called Gel. You control Detective Hart, a Vice officer whose partner Reese has disappeared.

Hart is aided by his lover Christy and the operative Sophia. Their investigation takes them from a battle with a weapon‑laden truck to a showdown with the mafia sorcerer Kim Long in China. Clues then lead to a jungle research base where a flying cyborg is defeated and Reese is revealed as a clone.

Christy is later captured in a biolaboratory; Hart fights a slime mutant that transforms into her before she dies, exposing B.E.D.A.’s experiments. The final confrontation occurs at the corporation’s headquarters against an aged clone director who offers Hart control over humanity. Hart refuses, defeats the director in human and monster forms, and escapes as another clone awakens.

Edited by Maya Carter