Thunder in Paradise Interactive
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Thunder in Paradise Interactive

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Fight crime with Spence and Bru in this CD-i exclusive starring Terry "Hulk" Hogan.
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How Long Is Thunder in Paradise Interactive?
100% completion: 1.0 hours
Total completions: 1
GigaDeathNullGolem
GigaDeathNullGolem gave Sep 20, 2025
GigaDeathNullGolem gave Sep 20, 2025
Can't we handle this like adults Mr Poo Poo Pants?
This review is for the Philips CD-i version

Doing research on this i learned this was a tie in with an actual TV show, and the idea of it built around Baywatch. It's like a mashup of Knight Rider (except its a boat instead of a car) with that of Universal Soldier. Hulk Hogan, other wrestler's, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt-double (Peter Kent if anyone is wondering) star in this short, pretty awful rail-shooting lightgun FMV disaster that consisted of an Afterburner like 'protect-the-boat' scene, and three FMV light shooting sequences filled with tiny and hard to see enemies. (I cannot imagine this being a good time on a CRT tube tv with the CD-i's notoriously shitty controller) The three levels are The Floridian Resort (Mercenary HQ) Industrial facility (looks like a steam power plan of some kind) and Main Street. The game has a final level that is the same industrial facility (ground floor and not the basement)

The idea of this game could have actually been decent if 1. the writing wasn't so laughably bad. 2. the acting was better and 3. they didn't have Terry and Chris 'bro' it up constantly with the player just to remind you that they are relevant to the game.

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Doing research on this i learned this was a tie in with an actual TV show, and the idea of it built around Baywatch. It's like a mashup of Knight Rider (except its a boat instead of a car) with that of Universal Soldier. Hulk Hogan, other wrestler's, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt-double (Peter Kent if anyone is wondering) star in this short, pretty awful rail-shooting lightgun FMV disaster that consisted of an Afterburner like 'protect-the-boat' scene, and three FMV light shooting sequences filled with tiny and hard to see enemies. (I cannot imagine this being a good time on a CRT tube tv with the CD-i's notoriously shitty controller) The three levels are The Floridian Resort (Mercenary HQ) Industrial facility (looks like a steam power plan of some kind) and Main Street. The game has a final level that is the same industrial facility (ground floor and not the basement)

The idea of this game could have actually been decent if 1. the writing wasn't so laughably bad. 2. the acting was better and 3. they didn't have Terry and Chris 'bro' it up constantly with the player just to remind you that they are relevant to the game.

This game very much looks like those American LaserGames you might be familiar with (such as Mad Dog McCree or Space Pirates) but plays slightly differently. the FMV will pan around/advance, emulating the first person perspective of the player as a 'Universal Soldier' After about 5-10 second of panning/advancement it will freeze and that is your cue that 1-3 enemies are going to pop up. after dropping them (or you can ignore them) the player will then 'move on' and another panning/advancement sequence will begin. Rinse and repeat about 5 times before you get an MPEG to come up of Hulk Hoga cheering you on with a 'keep going kid/dude/bro!' Conceptually this isn't a bad format. It's been done and worked great for other lightgun games (such as Area 51 or its successor Restricted Area) Sadly, the game will 'hitch' like crazy in between every mentionable sequence, complete with out-of-place audio stutter. (I'm not sure why this is the case, I didn't notice this with other games)

So, the light gun aspect of this game sucks too IMO... So this game literally has nothing going for it other than a good belly laugh at what is basically a real turkey of a film. I wanted to have something redeeming to say about this one, but alas i've got nothing! Even the bikini girl music video 'hidden' in the menu was lame and trashy!

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