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Mission: Impossible

An Action-adventure game based on the 1996 film Mission: Impossible. It was for Nintendo 64. It was later ported to the PlayStation, with minor additions such as voice acting. A sequel, Mission: Impossible –…

16 July 1998

Mission: Impossible is an adventure developed by Ocean Software, released 16 July 1998 on Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.

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What Mission: Impossible is

Mission: Impossible is an adventure game developed by Ocean Software and released in 1998. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Jim Phelps is in a park outside the CIA, getting a message about a terrorist plot in Norway planning to send missiles to a rival country. Phelps sends IMF agents Ethan Hunt, John Clutter and Andrew Dowey to stop the terrorists' plans by infiltrating the submarine pen where the missiles are being stored, then destroying the submarine holding the missiles. While this is happening, Alexander Golystine, a worker at the Embassy of Russia in Prague, kidnaps the female IMF agent Candice Parker and steals one half of the Non-Official Cover (NOC) list, a list that gives the real and false names of all IMF agents. Though useless on its own, the Embassy possess a powerful super-computer that may be…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mission: Impossible series

Mission: Impossible is the third of 9 entries we hold in the Mission: Impossible series. It arrived 2 years after Mission: Impossible. The next entry was Mission: Impossible in 2000.

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What it launched against

Mission: Impossible launched on 16 July 1998, within three weeks of Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, SoulCalibur and F-1 World Grand Prix.

Released around the same time: Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix.

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When did Mission: Impossible come out?
Mission: Impossible was released on 16 July 1998 for Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.

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