Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (1999). Play online

Summary

Playing Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko on the N64 always felt like slipping into a goofy TV station. Alfred the Turtle greets you from Mission Control, guiding you through a hub where each channel drops you into a level that riffs on sitcoms, game shows or cartoon mash‑ups. The American voice of Gex, supplied by comedian Dana Gould, makes the quips land perfectly, and the game adds some wild rides—a tank, a camel and a snowboard—to break up the usual platform hopping. You can even swim or glide in certain stages, while the only collectibles are bugs that power fire or ice attacks, and footprints that restore your health. Hidden across the maps are fifty remote controls; finding them all triggers a goofy ending, though that surprise vanished from the UK version. The N64 port swapped the original intro cutscene for Alfred’s narrated news‑flash and turned the showdown with Agent Xtra into a simple console screen. Critics complained about choppy frame‑rates and an underused analog stick, and review scores lingered in the mid‑60s to high‑70s range, but the humor and TV‑centric parody still make it a quirky flashback for retro fans.

Storyline

In Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, the TV‑obsessed gecko‑hero is now a wealthy secret agent when a news broadcast reveals his partner and love interest, Agent Xtra, has vanished. Xtra manages to contact Gex from the Media Dimension, explaining that the villain Rez kidnapped her as bait to draw Gex into an assault on his hidden island cave.

Gex rushes back through his Mission Control hub, hopping across a slew of television channels with the aid of his butler Alfred. Along the way he frees fellow captives Rex and Cuz, and together they confront Rez in a final showdown, destroy the menace and rescue Xtra. The PlayStation cutscene hints at an off‑screen romance, while the Nintendo 64 ending has Alfred announcing a cruise for the pair and leaving Gex in charge of the island.