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Summary

Nuclear Strike 64 (often just called Nuclear Strike) blends helicopter‑based shooting with real‑time strategy, letting you hop between a fictional Super Apache and a roster of fourteen other vehicles – from a Cobra chopper to a Harrier jump jet, an A‑10‑style V/STOL, an M1 Abrams tank and even a hovercraft. The variety feels intentional, turning each mission into a mini‑campaign where you can switch from air‑to‑ground firepower on the fly.

The HUD keeps you honest, constantly tracking fuel, ammo and mission objectives while a new compass and radar plot enemy positions across five sprawling terrain types. Levels break into multiple objectives – destroy bridges, escort convoys, rescue hostages – and occasionally hand you command of ground troops in a simple RTS‑style segment.

Critics praised the N64’s graphics, noting the vivid, destructible environments and fluid explosions even without the Expansion Pak. Reviewers highlighted the atmospheric, spy‑thriller‑style soundtrack and praised the responsive controls, though a few pointed out occasional color‑coding confusion on the map.

Storyline

Nuclear Strike 64 opens in the fictional Southeast Asian nation of Indocine, where you pilot a Super Apache helicopter for the covert STRIKE force. Led by General Earle and supported by technician Hack and operative Andrea Gray, you face Colonel Beauford LeMonde, a former spy turned warlord who has stolen a nuclear weapon. Guerrilla leader Naja Hana joins your cause, but LeMonde tricks STRIKE with a fake bomb in an old temple and smuggles the real warhead off‑screen, forcing you to extract Naja from a booby‑trapped compound before it detonates.

The action shifts to the South China Sea, where LeMonde allies with Napoleon Hwong, head of the Octad crime syndicate. Recruiting mercenary Harding Cash, you battle Hwong’s forces, capture and interrogate him, and watch him commit suicide. The hunt then leads to Pyongyang, North Korea, where the stolen nuke is hidden inside Kim Il Sung’s statue on Mansudae Hill. After rescuing world leaders via a French frigate and commandeering an AH‑1 Cobra from a museum, the weapon detonates in the Rungnado May Day Stadium.

North Korea blames the South and launches an incursion across the DMZ, prompting STRIKE to aid US Forces Korea and the South Korean Army. The final showdown takes place at a Mongol‑era fortress in Siberia, where LeMonde’s mercenaries prepare a "proto‑nuclear" missile to rupture the ozone layer. The missile is destroyed, LeMonde is killed, Naja and Cash fall in love, and STRIKE readies itself for the next conflict.

Edited by Maya Carter