And with that, DJB gets his classic RP moment....the bikini girl explosion. Take a bow son, you did well. This game was tremendous in it's awfulness, what else can you say? The obvious models for the buildings and vehicles, the constant explosions, the dumbass blurring thing used to disguise the pause as the CD loads the next part of footage needed, the action figures used in the second level for some of the shots of people, that glorious ending with the ceiling fan. This game and Hopkins FBI are absurd works of demented art.
When I got to the beach girl part, I had to latch onto a pillow and stuff my mouth with it just to contain how hard I was laughing, laughing so hard I started crying and felt like I was dying, and then I exploded.
Counting charge explosions on people to signify getting shot with bullets, and re-shots of the same explosion, I made this explosion chart for viewers: Total Explosions: 146 Explosion #100 happens at 12:39, and it was a spontaneous explosion. The best explosion was at 17:15. Stage 1: 71 explosions *Most explody stage!* Stage 2: 54 explosions + 3 in the cutscene Stage 3: 17 + 1 in cutscene right before credits Give or take 5 explosions due to error, I started counting explosions before they happened.
Fucking hell. 8:00 the middle guy, I knew that dude was Joe Flanigan. I don't see it as much of a coincidence that this game is made by Stargate Studios and then he is cast as the main character in Stargate Atlantis. This guy's a decent actor, was he just like REALLY desperate for money!?
>The latest in stealth technology. >They know you're here. You're gonna have to find your own way in. Captain, what the fuck did you do? Phone ahead to let them know I was coming?
Oh, and don't forget about the flat, angular design, perfect for deflecting radio waves in a manner to lower the profile of the craft, and making it radar stealthy! ...And then it ruins that completely by being open and having all of those guns and rocket launchers on the side. There's a reason why stealth bombers have their ordinance inside bays.
I'm at a nice, quiet campground in rural Pennsylvania right now and I laughed so hard at that moment that people staying in tents about 100 yards away peeked their heads out to see what just happened. They must think I'm insane and it was totally worth it.
Well, a Surgical Strike is an actual military thing/action, however, this is literally the complete and total opposite of what the military would call a Surgical Strike, which is a military operation meant to have as little collateral damage as possible, and eliminating SOLELY the target. Although, I guess if every building, person, and thing in existence is the target, it could technically count
Say what you want about this game, I love that they bothered to actually make real models of vehicles and buildings and blew them up, instead of just using CG effects. 9:12 Those toy soldiers blowing up are fantastic.
I spent a little too much time on something so silly but whatever; the tanks they used were clearly Pzkpfw VI or Tiger I tanks used by the german Wermacht in World War 2. Looking at prices briefly, 1/72 scale models of the tank vary between $10 and $20 USD depending on the detail of the model. In the city portion of the game, there were I think 6 tank kills with 5 unique explosions, and in the desert/cliffs area there's something like 8-9 tanks destroyed with I think 7-8 unique death reels. I'm willing to bet we saw all the tank kills in the game but honestly wouldn't be to suprised if there were more. So the budget on tank models alone, with somewhere along the lines of a total of 15 models put them back about $150-$300USD. I didnt count how many truck models they blew up, nor the bunkers manned by what are clearly re-painted GIJOES but I'm sure they spent a similar amount on those if not less. They probably spent more money on awful acting, bad computer effects and that sweet armored hovercraft model than practical effects. I'll give a little to the developers who put this together, at least each scene with a destroyable tank or technical/pickup truck seems to have its own associated death reel.
Missed opportunity for the ending; *Boss gets killed by ceiling fan* Main guy should have said "Looks like he got killed by his biggest fan." and then he explodes.
The director, James W. Riley, has gone to become a "visual effects supervisor" for such series as 24 and CSI:Miami. He hasn't directed anything since the Sega CD video game Wirehead in 1995. He also directed Night Trap. One of the writers never did anything else, the other went on to make such masterpieces as Dead to Rights and Wheelman.
Bbecause Obama.is unqualified and has had multiple failures? On topic, I like DJB, but its not change, no other guests gave this much hate and im only counting the first few videos, people just dont like him for some reason.
CeePeeNOLA It's because of who he is replacing. Diabetus is the funniest one on retsupurae. Of course people are going to be sad he's gone. It's just not the same without him.
Leeroyhim Captainqwark10 The first few people they took as guests, but the longer 'beetus was away the more angry the pig-headed fans got because "dammit, 'beetus owes them! He BELONGS to them!" DJB has been the most prevalent of the guest hosts and so, to them, he's the one "replacing" 'beetus and became the target of their ridiculous venom targeting silly things like "he's British, dur!" So it is partly change, partly venting frustration, partly bigotry, but entirely ignorant selfish stupidity. 'Cos even if they don't like his humour, which is fine - to each their own, they're acting like dicks over an unavoidable situation and making it seem like 'beetus isn't allowed to have a break or a personal life.
I have to say, I've seen a lot of gratuitous stuff in my lifetime of gaming. The impossible violence of Mortal Kombat and Brutal Doom, Indigo Prophecy turning into The Matrix, giant ants building an H-bomb, the last few Saints Row games... But _that moment_ was probably the most gratuitously absurd thing I've ever seen.
6:25 "We'll bring peace by destroying everything that could potentially cause war." So basically the _I, Robot_ movie's plot is on the same intellectual level as that of this game. Ya gotta hate life sometimes.
I thought about making a Michael Bay reference or making a joke about the Transformers movies here. Everyone would laugh and nod their heads in approval, whilst giving a +1 to my funny comment and saying, "Indeed, good friend. Well done. Hats off to you." But in the end I decided not to.
20:33. Just, 20:33. Probably one of my new favorite things on this entire channel. All these explosions, and THAT'S the final boss. Fucking incredible.
I don't understand why everyone is flipping out. I love DJB from what we've seen/heard with him, and as much as I miss 'Betus, I don't mind a change for now at all.
Joe Flanigan followed by exploding bikinis... yeah... that's a good metaphor for how Stargate went after the first SG1 series got spin-offs... going up in flames really fast.
My favourite thing to do after an RP of these old FMV games is to go on Gamefaqs and find the boxart and read the list of lies and half-truthes they printed on the cover to try and sell them. Somehow, Surgical Strike's doesn't mention explosions once.
so surgical strikes are like attacking the base with as little damage as possible, basically going straight for the heart I don't think our protagonist or the devs know what a surgical strike is
First Star Strike had the guy from Warehouse 13. Now this has the dude from Stargate Atlantis. All we need is an FMV game with the dude from Eureka and that's a Syfy trifecta.
17:15 had the greatest comedic timing ever in any video on the internet
And with that, DJB gets his classic RP moment....the bikini girl explosion. Take a bow son, you did well.
This game was tremendous in it's awfulness, what else can you say? The obvious models for the buildings and vehicles, the constant explosions, the dumbass blurring thing used to disguise the pause as the CD loads the next part of footage needed, the action figures used in the second level for some of the shots of people, that glorious ending with the ceiling fan.
This game and Hopkins FBI are absurd works of demented art.
My favorite part, is when they put fake badly pasted explosions, over the top of real explosions. Like.. "This explosion needs more explosions."
I think DJB acquired Diabetus's latent psychic abilities from being on so many recent retsupuraes
Thanks for playing this for us, madmatty.
I know this a 5yr old comment but, tbh I feel they have a case of the Rich Evans "called it" predictions. XD
Michael Bay is watching this game, and he puts a tissue to his eye as he sheds a single tear, saying "it's beautiful."
And then the tissue explodes.
BOOM! Right in the sniffer!
+Number Nine Guess where else he's putting the tissue?
Guess what else explodes? :D
"Programmed by The Code Monkeys"
I can't think of any more fitting start to the credits for this
I beg to differ! Remember that Hell House wrongpurae? The developer called his, "company," BM Games. Truly a fitting title.
To be honest, Dave probably would make a game with this many explosions...
17:18 was probably the hardest I've ever laughed at an RP video since Duke's reveal from Ambition. Thank you DJB.
I'd say Mr. DJB deserves a round of applause for filling in for this long and doing a great job thus far.
He didnt fill.in long at all, this was all recorded in two sessions.
"Who are we fighting?!"
"EVERYTHING."
I just love how this ultimate killing machine is an open-top cockpit on an already fragile hovercraft.
Mr. DJB: A man born with the ability to predict the outcome of any 90's adventure/FMV game at any given time.
He has powers. Useless, useless powers.
This attack vehicle is one of those Space Mutiny go-karts with guns attached.
When I got to the beach girl part, I had to latch onto a pillow and stuff my mouth with it just to contain how hard I was laughing, laughing so hard I started crying and felt like I was dying, and then I exploded.
I can't even being to tell you how hard I laughed at the beach girls
Counting charge explosions on people to signify getting shot with bullets, and re-shots of the same explosion, I made this explosion chart for viewers:
Total Explosions: 146
Explosion #100 happens at 12:39, and it was a spontaneous explosion.
The best explosion was at 17:15.
Stage 1: 71 explosions *Most explody stage!*
Stage 2: 54 explosions + 3 in the cutscene
Stage 3: 17 + 1 in cutscene right before credits
Give or take 5 explosions due to error, I started counting explosions before they happened.
Fucking hell.
8:00 the middle guy, I knew that dude was Joe Flanigan. I don't see it as much of a coincidence that this game is made by Stargate Studios and then he is cast as the main character in Stargate Atlantis.
This guy's a decent actor, was he just like REALLY desperate for money!?
It was before the series so i would say its was his ticket into stardom. Damn i miss stargate episodes.
As soon as I saw him, I was like "Wait, what?!"
Went and looked on Wikipedia and everything and his name was listed there.
one of my favourite episodes.
It was his first role according to Surgical Strike's wikipedia, so no he wasn't desperate for money I think.
Marshall Teague from Babylon 5, too.
>The latest in stealth technology.
>They know you're here. You're gonna have to find your own way in.
Captain, what the fuck did you do? Phone ahead to let them know I was coming?
I don't think it was very stealthy to begin with considering anything it touches explodes.
It's quick and literally soundless.
Assuming this was a real surgical strike, it would be in and out before anything saw it.
If you blow up everything and everyone, they can't raise the alarm before being blown up, therefore perfect stealth, maybe?
Oh, and don't forget about the flat, angular design, perfect for deflecting radio waves in a manner to lower the profile of the craft, and making it radar stealthy!
...And then it ruins that completely by being open and having all of those guns and rocket launchers on the side. There's a reason why stealth bombers have their ordinance inside bays.
They went to the splinter cell school of stealth, where stealth = EXPLOSIONS
This is like one of those annoying fever dreams where the same thing keeps happening over and over again and you can't move forward no matter what.
Also, that's totally the guy from Stargate Atlantis in one of his earliest roles.
"It'd be great if these beach girls just start exploding..."
one second later...
BOOOOOOM!
Dear mother of God.....
THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER!
That Universal Studios ride would never work. There could only be three people clinging for dear life to the front.
I just love those practical effects- especially the bad dummies. It really makes the fake stuff pop out more obviously.
17:18 That was perfect timing. Honestly I just couldn't stop laughing throughout this whole video, but that moment caused me to explode with laughter.
I'm at a nice, quiet campground in rural Pennsylvania right now and I laughed so hard at that moment that people staying in tents about 100 yards away peeked their heads out to see what just happened. They must think I'm insane and it was totally worth it.
Mark Marchesini I had that actually happen to me in the classroom. Thankfully, everyone else was laughing as well.
It's exhausting to watch this.
The 90's, ladies and gentlemen. The 90's.
BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP SURGICAL!!!!!!!
Yeah, kinda miss it....even more now than ever.
17:18 - Diabetus may not be here, but I see DJB stepped up and brought his foresight
This is like the polar opposite of that ASMR video.
So that AMSR video was nothing but the military rebuilding destroyed structures?
0:50
Sudden flashbacks to Space Mutiny...
Well, a Surgical Strike is an actual military thing/action, however, this is literally the complete and total opposite of what the military would call a Surgical Strike, which is a military operation meant to have as little collateral damage as possible, and eliminating SOLELY the target. Although, I guess if every building, person, and thing in existence is the target, it could technically count
This is the UNITED STATES military we're talking about.
@@Crrrow That's no excuse. If it involves collateral damage. It is NOT a Surgical Strike.
I love that there are TWO Stathams in the stunt credits. Action is the family business.
Michael Bay’s Law: Anything that can explode, will explode
21:26 The player goes to jail.
...I'm serious, that's the Game Over.
I realized right at the end of this thing, the name "Surgical Strike" might make this one of the best satires ever.
Death by ceiling fan is now officially the most ridiculous final boss kill.
One of the most 'Murican games I've ever seen
And ironically it was made by a British team :D
Say what you want about this game, I love that they bothered to actually make real models of vehicles and buildings and blew them up, instead of just using CG effects.
9:12 Those toy soldiers blowing up are fantastic.
I really like the accent Diabetus has been putting on lately. He's slacking on the puns, though.
I spent a little too much time on something so silly but whatever; the tanks they used were clearly Pzkpfw VI or Tiger I tanks used by the german Wermacht in World War 2. Looking at prices briefly, 1/72 scale models of the tank vary between $10 and $20 USD depending on the detail of the model.
In the city portion of the game, there were I think 6 tank kills with 5 unique explosions, and in the desert/cliffs area there's something like 8-9 tanks destroyed with I think 7-8 unique death reels. I'm willing to bet we saw all the tank kills in the game but honestly wouldn't be to suprised if there were more.
So the budget on tank models alone, with somewhere along the lines of a total of 15 models put them back about $150-$300USD. I didnt count how many truck models they blew up, nor the bunkers manned by what are clearly re-painted GIJOES but I'm sure they spent a similar amount on those if not less.
They probably spent more money on awful acting, bad computer effects and that sweet armored hovercraft model than practical effects.
I'll give a little to the developers who put this together, at least each scene with a destroyable tank or technical/pickup truck seems to have its own associated death reel.
So many explosions, it's like a Michael Bay wet dream
And yet still contains more gameplay than a single player CoD campaign.
Missed opportunity for the ending;
*Boss gets killed by ceiling fan*
Main guy should have said "Looks like he got killed by his biggest fan." and then he explodes.
22:22 "Hovercraft carpenter" and "Hovercraft electrician".
Meaning the life-sized model of that 'hovercraft' is real and might still exist somewhere.
The director, James W. Riley, has gone to become a "visual effects supervisor" for such series as 24 and CSI:Miami.
He hasn't directed anything since the Sega CD video game Wirehead in 1995. He also directed Night Trap.
One of the writers never did anything else, the other went on to make such masterpieces as Dead to Rights and Wheelman.
11:49
They're called _posable_ action figures for a reason, you know.
12:44 "An explosion happened for no reason!"
This game in a nutshell.
That ceiling fan was actually Cyrax from Mortal Kombat.
The first words upon starting a new game are: "It's the latest in *stealth* technology. Somehow, I don't buy that.
"It'd be great if these beach girls just started exploding"
Night Trap WP when?
I don't understand all the hate towards DJB. He's a pretty cool funny guy.
The hate is simple. People hate change. Why do you think Obama took so much flack?
Bbecause Obama.is unqualified and has had multiple failures? On topic, I like DJB, but its not change, no other guests gave this much hate and im only counting the first few videos, people just dont like him for some reason.
CeePeeNOLA
It's because of who he is replacing. Diabetus is the funniest one on retsupurae. Of course people are going to be sad he's gone. It's just not the same without him.
CeePeeNOLA
Yeah, Obama was my least favourite Retsupurae commentator as well.
Leeroyhim Captainqwark10 The first few people they took as guests, but the longer 'beetus was away the more angry the pig-headed fans got because "dammit, 'beetus owes them! He BELONGS to them!" DJB has been the most prevalent of the guest hosts and so, to them, he's the one "replacing" 'beetus and became the target of their ridiculous venom targeting silly things like "he's British, dur!"
So it is partly change, partly venting frustration, partly bigotry, but entirely ignorant selfish stupidity. 'Cos even if they don't like his humour, which is fine - to each their own, they're acting like dicks over an unavoidable situation and making it seem like 'beetus isn't allowed to have a break or a personal life.
I'm seriously loving all of these videos with Mr. DJB.
"Take that, sand!" You might say it's a literally scorched-earth strategy.
Tagline: "No one can hear you scream, in explosions."
Those cars look like someone stole the things from Space Mutiny and slapped a gun on them.
Now if only they would have grabbed Reb Brown while they were at it, this would be even better!
I wouldn't mind if the protagonist screamed and jumped out of this game, that's for sure!
17:15 Had me laughing so hard I was crying! Nice timing DJB! :D
MadMatty played this? I love that guy!
Madmatty,game show contestant and oneman army!
"Who am I gonna murder next? uhmmmm.... *smiles* Everyone!"
And then Cindy blows up.
I have to say, I've seen a lot of gratuitous stuff in my lifetime of gaming. The impossible violence of Mortal Kombat and Brutal Doom, Indigo Prophecy turning into The Matrix, giant ants building an H-bomb, the last few Saints Row games...
But _that moment_ was probably the most gratuitously absurd thing I've ever seen.
An Action Packed Trip to Detroit
This game would go on to inspire Michael Bay's entire film career.
this is like, what tipper gore thinks video games are except it's actually real
6:25 "We'll bring peace by destroying everything that could potentially cause war."
So basically the _I, Robot_ movie's plot is on the same intellectual level as that of this game.
Ya gotta hate life sometimes.
The beach scene will now and forever be one of my favorite and happiest moments in video games ever.
Anyone else notice some of the people getting blown up were plastic army guy toys?
The cars, helicopters and trucks are all toys too. It's adorable.
Mantis47 still looked better than a CGI fest like phantasmagoria.
I thought about making a Michael Bay reference or making a joke about the Transformers movies here. Everyone would laugh and nod their heads in approval, whilst giving a +1 to my funny comment and saying, "Indeed, good friend. Well done. Hats off to you."
But in the end I decided not to.
Should have named this
"SHBROOM 2"
I guess i'll be bringing a flak jacket when i head to Hawaii, thanks MadMatty!
Alternate title: War Crime
We have a camera and several elementary school dioramas we can blow up. TIME TO MAKE A VIDEO GAME!
I love both Mr. DJB and Joe Flanigan, so by 30 seconds in, I knew this would be golden.
So, after seeing that the player was Mad Matty, was anyone else imagining that guy from Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune playing this game?
*****
Inside the gunship laughing manically as everything around him exploded?
Yes.
*Rubs neckbeard while deep in thought...*
+KoyasuNoBara Do recall that he's also the same guy who played Road Avenger
+KoyasuNoBara Who am I gonna murder today?
*CINDY*
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Let the madness and mayhem begin at 02:18.
This is the real sequel to Ambition.Ted escapes from prison (again!) and commandeers a tank and finally gets to "blow us all to hell."
This is about as surgical as a dentist with a sledgehammer.
20:33. Just, 20:33. Probably one of my new favorite things on this entire channel. All these explosions, and THAT'S the final boss. Fucking incredible.
I litteraly clicked to jump to 4 different points in the video and every single one was an explosion.
This game gave me PTSD. I can't enjoy VRRR DEDEDEDED WOOOOOP BOOM without freaking out and going into a cold sweat.
"Blow it all up!"
I recently watched Mr. DJB's wrongpurae of Wirehead on his own channel, so it really made me smile to watch this.
I don't understand why everyone is flipping out. I love DJB from what we've seen/heard with him, and as much as I miss 'Betus, I don't mind a change for now at all.
Dahir Insaat tank
17:12
Amazing. Simply amazing
I had no idea the floor cleaners from Space Mutiny were so powerful!
The grandfather of stupid scripted Turret Sequences.
I keep thinking the guys flying out of the explosions are going to comically hit the camera like in the old TMNT games.
Spoilers:
20:34: I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't explode.
Joe Flanigan followed by exploding bikinis... yeah... that's a good metaphor for how Stargate went after the first SG1 series got spin-offs... going up in flames really fast.
oh god the beach babes LMAO
So this is what counted as a video game back in the the day? FMV rail shooters?
No?
Leeroyhim Captainqwark10 Sadly Yes, not a good game but still a game.
You misread my comment. There are FMV games Not on rails
Not much worse than what passes for one today: walking simulator with narrator.
My favourite thing to do after an RP of these old FMV games is to go on Gamefaqs and find the boxart and read the list of lies and half-truthes they printed on the cover to try and sell them. Somehow, Surgical Strike's doesn't mention explosions once.
I love how you can easily tell everything is just miniatures and toys. So many action figures died this day...
so surgical strikes are like attacking the base with as little damage as possible, basically going straight for the heart
I don't think our protagonist or the devs know what a surgical strike is
I love how a massive hovercraft just drives inside the building and shoots the guys in there
Now I know the only console and game Michael Bay owned when he was younger.
Is this the Deep Fear prequel, where you play as Clancy?
DJB ALWAYS predicts correctly what happens!
"Watch the girls blow up!"
*BOOM*
Andrea Elson of 80's tv show Alf is in this. I'm sure Billy MC would appreciate that. ;)
She's the girl the bad guy kidnaps at the end. How the hell did I recognize her, I dunno.
First Star Strike had the guy from Warehouse 13.
Now this has the dude from Stargate Atlantis.
All we need is an FMV game with the dude from Eureka and that's a Syfy trifecta.
I love the slowly rotating man at 9:12
20:35, holy shit, the little dance the guy's legs do.
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