Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (renamed Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko for the Game Boy Color version) is the last in the trilogy of Gex (series)platformingvideo games released in 1999. Gex discovers that his partner and lover, Agent Xtra, now the head of the 'TV Terrorist Defense Unit', has been reported missing, captured by the cyberneticemperor Rez, leading Gex to return to the MediaDimension once again and journey across multiple channels collecting remotes. Below is a list of quotes from the game, many of which are references to a certain aspects of television and film culture.
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When hitting enemies, eating flies or getting hit
- Good, good, good!
- What's for dinner?
- A McFly meal for me, please!
- (singing) Another bug in my gut.
- I'm a sucker for bugs!
- Let's get it on.
- I know what you're thinkin': it's TAIL TIME!
- Taste my tail!
- Lock and load, little lizard!
- SOMEBODY'S gotta do it!
- That is one powerful piece of machinery!
- My tail doesn't like you!
- Now cut that out!
- Karate chop!
- Shee-whack!
- (imitating Sean Connery) My tail says 'hello!'
- How do ya like me NOW?!
- Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Breaking out the People's Tail!
- Gecko chop, baby, yeah!)
- Mmm- TVs instead of potatoes!
- Ahh, I'm getting a little turkey-neck.
When entering a level
- Lock and load.
- Lock and load, little lizard!
- It's tail tiiiiime!
- Let's get it on!
Holiday Broadcasting - Totally Scrooged
- The ice planet Hoth. The Rebels are there.
- I'm freezing my tail off here...
- Cold blood, cold weather. Bad combination!
- I feel like the freshmaker!
- And a-one, and a-two, you're a candy cane and dancing!
- We've knocked down the generator Lord Vader, you may start your landing.
- I wanna lick it, but my tongue'll get stuck!
- (imitating an old man) Where's that Wonka man?!?
- (imitating Jack Skellington) Christmas Town? I'm Jack Gexxington from Halloween Town.
- DUUUDE!
- Note to self: don't lick any flagpoles.
- Dancing candy canes. How fruity.
- Colder than a witch's thing in a brass whatchamacallit.
- Colder than a supermodel's stare at an all-you-can-eat buffet!
- Luckily, I'm wearing my performance fleece.
- Donner party, for twenty. Donner party, for twenty.
- My favorite holiday, Halloween.
- This place is colder than Eva Gabor's wig fridge.
- (imitating Johnny Carson) It's like the inside of Santa's head - after an eggnog bender!
- Somebody tell Jackie Brown I found her hat!
- They're sweet! They're minty! They mambo!
- (when fighting the evil Santa) If you're Santa, then I'm a 6 foot tall lizard-- wait a minute...
- Mr. Wonka! Veruca stole a gobstopper!
- (as Captain Picard) Number One, program the Holodeck for something WARM!
- (Again, as Picard) My nipples feel like snowpeas! Make it warm, Number One!
- This outfit is snug in all the wrong places, prrr....
- I'll show you who's naughty and who's nice!
- (singing) I'm the ice cream man, stop me when I'm passing by...
In the snowboard part of this level Gex can say the following:
- (sarcastic voice) Oh, great, another snowboarding game.
- Where's the handbrake on this thing?
- Check me out! I'm EXTREEEME!
- WARNING, yellow patch, WARNING!
- (Singing) Let's go snowboardin' now, everybody's learning how!
- (in a Staten Island accent) How can you surf, if you don't like water?
- Weren't you on ESPN2?
Mystery TV - Clueless in Seattle
- I feel like Lester the mo-Gex-ter.
- I look like Holmes, but I feel like Columbo.
- All this fancy stuff and no TV?! Savages!
- Where is Alicia Silverstone when you need a real clue?
- This is one ritzy joint... for a video game.
- Ah yes - the mystery of the two-brimmed hat.
- The evidence is overwhelming... I'm not wearing pants!
- (with childish voice) Now I will tell you the origins of the Universe.
- I've deduced... that my shorts are too tight... and I like it!
- With this raincoat I make a perfect Sherlock Holmes... or a flasher.
- With my trusty magnifying glass, I can now spend the entire day burning ants!
- God bless the British, and their love of itchy wool!
- (when playing bear head minigame) If these aren't fleas, I'm gonna have to buy more 'special' shampoo!
- (imitating Sean Connery) Goldfinger's Fortress, this is not!
As DracuGex, the following can also be said by Gex:
- I'm suddenly very thirsty... for blooood...
- The flying part's cool; the undead part sucks.
- Very scary, eh, kids?
- (imitating Count von Count) For some reason I feel like... COUNT-ING, ha, ha! One... two... three...
- Hold the garlic.
- Keanu Reeves ruined my movie.
Tut TV - Holy Moses!
- Nothing that attracts the ladies more than a dirty daidy.
- Like I always say - the headdress makes the man.
- (imitating C-3PO) Well, I'm not going that way - it's much too rocky! This way is much easier!
- (imitating Bugs Bunny) Here we are! Pismo Beach and all the clams I can eat!
- (imitating C-3PO) A transport? I'm saved. OVER HERE!!!
- (imitating Luke Skywalker) Uncle Owen, this R2 has a bad motivator.
- When this level is over, I am selling this hat.
- A headdress, a diaper, and I'm good to go.
- (Singing) There's a place in France where the ladies where no pants!
- (Singing) Midnight at the Oasis...
- I hope you're not in heat...!'
- Bark like a dog, you little monkey woman.
- Half-man, half-dog, one hundred percent sexy.
- Half-man, half-dog next springer!
- Dog-headed gods and the women who love them, on the next Jerry Springer!
- I'll kidnap all the oceans of the world, Underdog!
- This place is drier than Linda Tripp's sauna pants!
- Uh, is this one of those pyramid schemes?
- (imitating Liberace) I wish my brother Moses was here!
- (in a childish voice) I'm a bad man, I have poopy pants.
- If I get to meet Yul Brynner, I'll plotz!
- I feel like an usher at a gay rodeo.
- I feel like I'm back at '54.
- (At phone) Hi pizza guy. One large pie with dung beetles.
- (At phone) Just dial 10-10-LETMYPEOPLEGO.
- (At phone) Huh, Doctor Who must have left this behind.
- (At phone) That's it, I'm calling the cops!
Army Channel - War Is Heck
- You're the only one, Gex.
- HOGAN!!! Forty days in the cooler!
- INCOMIIIING!!!
- The Pentagon spent 25 million dollars for this one level??
- Note to self: Don't get killed in big, loud war.
- If this was the '60s, I'd run and hide. Of course, I'd have sideburns and bell-bottoms.
- Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise.
- (as R. Lee Ermey) Where are you from, son?...Texas!!?...HO-LY--!
- (again, as R. Lee Ermey) The first word out of your filthy sewer will be 'GEX'!
- Gooood morniiing, Menlo Park!
- Do these boots come in red?
- I can accessorize this: A handbag, some buttons, a bauble, a bow!
- This helmet is gonna muss my hair....
- Nothing like army clothes for total comfort.
- He-hey, where's the 'Flee to Canada' level?
- Hey, no kidding, did I miss the 'make love, not war' level?
- (singing) War is a many-splendored thing.
Western Station - The Organ Trail
- Youuu TRY IT!
- (as Clint Eastwood): Do you feel lucky, punk?
- (again, as Eastwood): Go ahead... make my lunch.
- (again, as Eastwood): Gecko's gotta know his limitations.
- (with a Mexican accent) I could use a siesta!
- I can tickle?!
- Howdy! There's some doodie.
- There's GOLD in them there teeth!
- Boxcar Willie is my favorite hobo.
- YEE-HAW, LITTLE DOGGIES!
- Saddle up, Hombre.
- Xtra, I'm a-fixin to rescue you.
- I'm going to find Billy Crystal's smile.
- Well, little lady....it's me and a donkey.
Buccaneer Program - Cutcheese Island
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- I wanna be a pirate.
- We'll follow you, preacher.
- Iceberg, DEAD AHEAD!!
- Crank up the Gilbert and Sullivan, dude.
- Isaac! The lido deck is filthy!
- I get sea sick... hold the game still!
- Xtra, I'll be savin' ya any minute. Soon as I poke out me eye and saw off me leg!
Mythology Network - Mythstories
- If I'm lucky, I'll stumble into an orgy.
- Toga, toga, TOGA, TOGA!
- Hey... are you guys playing cards?
- *barking*
- Move over, Argonauts. Here come the Gexonauts!
- I... am... Gexacus!
- I am Judah Ben-Gex.
- Look at the little soldier.
- (as a female tour guide) Welcome to the Sultan of Brunei's bathroom.
- (as Snagglepuss) Heavens to Loverboy! An 80's Flashback!
- (Imitating John Belushi) I'm a Zit! Get it?
- Is it columns or pillars? It's all Greek to me.
- Clash of the Titans! What a movie!
- (Cutely) Aw! Look at the little soldier!
- I need to get to the aqueduct and drain the lizard, if you get my drift...!
- The Playboy mansion... YES!
- Francis Ford Coppola you too.
- I smell heroes, my friend.
Fairytale TV - Red Riding in the Hood
- I'll climb it, but I'm not gonna like it!
- Hey, good thing I brought some beans
- Fe, fi, fo... forget it.
- (as a female tour guide) And, on your left, Aaron Spelling's broom closet.
- Ugh, I feel like hocking a loogie.
- (Singing) 'Scuse me while I kiss theOpal Program Sky!
- (as old man) I'm gonna have one sore tuchas after this!
Anime Channel - When Sushi Goes Bad
- (Imitating an Alien) Take me to your lizard.
- (Singing) I am Robot, Hear me roar.
- What if I have to go potty?
- Hey! I'm in George Jetson's colon!
- (Imitating Buzz Lightyear) To infinity and, uh... Screw it.
- Schoolgirls?! Why did it have to be schoolgirls?!
- Extra, We're needed!
- I'm outta here!
- My job here is done! . . . Engage!
Gangster TV - My Three Goons
- Time for Gex to clean up the city.
- (Godfather-esque) I'm making them offer they can't refuse.
- (imitating Al Pacino) I'm OUTTA ORDER! YOU'RE OUTTA ORDER!! THIS WHOLE LEVEL'S OUTTA ORDER!!!
- Do I amuse you? Like a clown?
- It's like a friggin' fugazi in here!
- Hey! Yo! My friggin' name is friggin' Donnie Brasco!
- Play it again, Sam. DO IT!
Superhero Show - Superzeroes
- I'm Gecko Plisken, and I'm here for the president.
- This city is a jungle... but a square one with no plants!
- I'm your friendly neighborhood super-gecko!
- I feel like I'm in West Side Story.
- Get in the super coop Brad.
In chicken costume, Gex can say the following, too:
- Wasn't the SuperGUY costume available?
- Who are you calling chicken?
Space Station REZ - Rez-raker
- This is gonna cost NASA a fortune!
- Skylab, we were all so worried about you!
- What a bunch of space junk...
- So much for Satellite TV.
- I love a good Kubrick movie....
Alfred[edit]
Mission Control
- Don't worry, Gex, you can still save her, but my television teleporter doesn't have enough power to Rez's secret lair. You'll have to travel around the broadcast first.
- Welcome, sir. Please come on in. Entering the training area should allow you to brush up on your skills.
- Press the attack button to tail-whack those hideous dummies.
- Sir, jump forward onto the paw targets.
- To tail bounce, press jump again once in air to reach higher grounds.
- Press crouch while running to perform a deadly karate kick.
- Sir, it seems you can tilt your view using the shoulder buttons.
- Sir, 100 fly coins in a level earns you an extra remote.
- 25 paw coins adds an extra hit point to your health, sir.
- Sir will be able to spend these bonus coins in the bonus games in the Gex cave.
- If sir must eat flies, I suggest using the tongue button.
- Uh, I do believe that it's time to start the game now.
Holiday Broadcasting
- Bouncing on presents seems like a good idea to me, sir.
- I think your friend Rex might need a bit of a thaw.
Mystery TV
- Those statues look like switches to me.
- To swim, use the Duck button to dive and Jump to stroke.
- Pressing duck once in air will cause one to glide.
- Sir, try standing on a magnified glass icon and looking around you.
- Fleas, sir! Ugh! Kill 10 of them maggots before time runs out!
- Bubbles, sir. How pretty. Pop 5 of them before time runs out.
- Hurry sir! Tail-kick 7 pool balls before time runs out.
Tut TV
- Mummys and secrets - it appears that they go hand-in-hand.
- Jump on the camel to use it for transport. Use Tongue to dismount.
Army Channel
- Back in '42, we used machineguns to shoot the searchlights, sir.
- Horrible chaps, those snipers. Stay in the foxhole maze.
Western Station
- The donkey's user manual says 'it can climb steep hills'.
- The donkey's a wild one, sir. It could even head butt!
Buccaneer Program
- Oo-ar, sir. Them treasure chests contain treasure!
- It can be rewarding to ride the Wall of Death, but please be careful.
- Sir's tail and TNT barrels - always a useful combination.
Mythology Network
- When I was in Greece, I always said pedestals had transforming powers.
- Dress as Hercules to break and push certain columns.
- Frozen enemies are useful for reaching higher areas.
- Use Tailkick in an updraft for a little extra lift.
- Tailkicks are apparently useful to reach difficult places.
Fairytales TV
- Looking around may be the only way to find Bonus Coins.
Gangster TV
- Spitting? Jolly mucky business, especially against closed doors.
- Fire breath? Do be careful, sir! Use it to destroy gate and door locks.
- With a bit of cunning, sir, enemy gunfire can be used to one's advantage.
- We had tommy guns in '17. Jolly useful they were, too.
Superhero Show
- Face-sticking pawprints can sometimes be most useful.
- I recommend a chicken costume to glide to new heights, sir.
- Spit attack is useful, but the Bomber can only be killed using his own bombs.
Channel Z
- Sir, the space station's airlock is opened by turning off the three generators.
Congratulating Gex
- Oh, well done, sir.
- That was amazing, sir! Well done.
- It appears that I taught you well, sir.
- Sir, this is impressing me more and more every day.
- You certainly are a master spy, sir.
- Excellent, sir! You'd beat that Bond chap hands down!
- Tea and crumpets all round I think, sir.
Restart
- Bad luck, sir. Try again.
- Try it a little slower, sir.
- A little more patience next time I think, sir.
- I'm sure that you'll get it next time, sir.
N64 Version Only
- (Intro) Mr. Gex and Agent Xtra had worked together for a jolly long time. Solving international mysteries, putting away some very bad chaps. But it all came to an untimely end when Agent Xtra... was mysteriously kidnapped! Now, Mr. Gex has dedicated himself to finding and rescuing his lost partner. Without her, I fear he will be lost...
- (Ending) I purchased Agent Xtra and Mr. Gex tickets... for a long, relaxing cruise. Mr. Gex kindly offered me the use of his desert island. He thinks he rescued Xtra all by himself... But we all know he couldn't possibly have done it without my help. Those jolly, clever people at Crystal Dynamics and Crave Entertainment would like to thank you for playing. Mr. Gex and I will return soon. Ta-ta for now...!
- (Ending, at 100%) Amazing! Absolutely amazing! You've completed everything! Well done! (Then says quote above.)
Evil Santa[edit]
- You're on the list! (after taking damage)
Conversations[edit]
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Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko | |
Developer: | Crystal Dynamics |
Publisher: | Eidos Interactive Crave Entertainment(N64) |
Director: | Glen Schofield |
Producer: | Sam Player |
Designer: | Christopher Tremmel |
Programmer: | Adrian Longland |
Series: | Gex |
Platforms: | PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color |
Released: | PlayStationNintendo 64Game Boy Color |
Genre: | Platform |
Modes: | Single-player |
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (titled Gex: Deep Pocket Gecko on Game Boy Color) is a platform video game. It is the third and final installment of the Gex video game trilogy. Danny John-Jules provided the voice for Gex in the UK and European release and comedian Dana Gould reprised the role for the American release, also starring the Playboy model Marliece Andrada as Agent Xtra, the only character that is featured in live-action. Unlike the first two Gex games, passwords are not used for saving (except in the Game Boy Color version). A controller pak on the Nintendo 64 or a memory card on the PlayStation were the only options for saving. The N64 version features small amounts of live action FMV sequences featuring Agent Xtra. The PlayStation version is the only game in the series to have received a T rating from the ESRB, although the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color versions were still E rated.
Plot
While watching television, Gex discovers that his partner and lover, Agent Xtra, now the head of the 'TV Terrorist Defense Unit', has been reported missing. Xtra herself manages to contact Gex and inform him that Rez has returned once again and kidnapped her to lure him out. Through his secret lair, Gex returns to the Media Dimension and circumnavigates numerous television channels with help from his butler, Alfred, and in the process frees and befriends Rez's prisoners, Rex and Cuz. Together, they find Rez and challenge him to a final battle. In the aftermath, Rez is destroyed once and for all, and Gex saves Xtra. In the PlayStation version's ending, as Xtra tells Gex of her time in the Media Dimension, Alfred attempts to warn Gex of a world emergency, but is ignored. The game ends with Gex and Xtra making love.
Gameplay
Gameplay remains similar to the previous game, , with the addition of certain vehicles, such as a tank, a camel and a snowboard, as well as a gliding ability available with certain costumes. There are also some aspects of the game that are shared only with the first installment, such as: Gex can only collect bugs in all levels (100 per level earns a remote) and secret levels, instead of the variety of items he collected in Enter the Gecko (skulls, TNT plungers, carrots, TVs, police plates, etc.). He can spit fire and ice, as well as swim. Unlike Enter the Gecko, when losing a life, Gex retains only the amount of bugs collected up to the latest checkpoint; if the level has no checkpoint, Gex has to start from zero. Since there are one hundred per level, collecting bugs can get significantly more difficult than the items in Enter the Gecko. Also, similar to the first Gex game, he can collect footprint icons throughout the game which give him more energy, though unlike the first game, Gex retains the energy (eight hits total) once he collects one hundred footprints. Gex 3 combines some aspects from the first game not seen in the second installment, with the general 3D platforming from the second game. Levels are accessed via a more expansive hub, with more areas unlocked as the player collects remotes from each of the levels. Players can unlock and control three alternate characters, Rex, Cuz and Alfred, during bonus stages, though they play the same.
Characters
Four new characters appear in this sequel. Agent Xtra, a live-action female government Spy and whom Gex must help rescue from the clutches of Rez. Gex is also joined by his faithful butler, Alfred the Tortoise, who is a slight character reference to Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred basically helps around and maintains Gex's secret lair which is known as 'Mission Control'. Alfred can be found in parts of most levels and tailwhipping him gives useful advice. The two last are Rex, a red Dinosaur who Gex unfroze from a block of ice in the 'Holiday Broadcasting' channel, and Cuz, Gex's cousin, who Gex rescued from gangsters in the 'Gangster TV' channel.
Development
Crystal Dynamics wanted Gex 3, the sequel to and the third game in the Gex series of platform video games, to raise the bar for focus more on its story than the series' previous entries did. They also wanted to further put emphasis on the title character's personality by giving him 'over-the-top animations', according to Crystal Dynamics' Product Marketing Manager, Chip Blundell. Several of the in-game mechanics used in levels were concepts that were thought of during the development of Gex 3D, but could not be included due to issues with time constraints. Lead Designer Chris Tremmel wanted the gameplay of Gex 3 to hearken back to the series' initial roots as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. To achieve this, he included side-scrolling minigames in addition to the main platforming parts, in order to make level missions less monotonous. According to Tremmel, most people who had played Gex 3D weren't entirely invested into going out of their way to locate all of the collectibles in each stage as they were with other collectathon platformers like Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie; thus, the developers made three core collectibles that stay consistent throughout the entire game and significantly aid the player in completing it. The HUB world used to access stages was also retooled from the previous game and changed from an empty environment with several doors leading to levels to being more like a level in itself with items and secrets hidden within it.[1]
With Gex 3, the developers tried to push the limits of the PlayStation's hardware further than they had with Gex 3D. For instance, the game's levels bigger than they were in the previous entry, having found a way to increase level sizes by one-fifth and include more enemies per stage while maintaining a high framerate. Textures also make use of environment mapping, something which Tremmel initially didn't think that the PlayStation could smoothly handle; according to him, he suggested using it to the programmers as a joke, not thinking that they could legitimately pull it off with the hardware limitations of the PlayStation, but found that the programmers had already begun working on implementing it the next day. The technique was used primarily for metal surfaces, such as certain enemies and Gex's shield and metallic armor that he wears at points in the game. A particular area of focus for Crystal Dynamics was improving the game's 3D camera system, which was frequently criticized in Gex 3D for being glitchy and difficult to use at times. Rather than including a multitude of camera options, they opted simply to feature a single system which was simple and didn't work against the desires of the player.[1]
Agent Xtra was played by actress Marliece Andrada, best known for starring in the TV show Baywatch.[1]
Reception
The PlayStation version of Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko received 'favorable' reviews, while the Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64 versions received 'mixed' reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. The N64 version was criticized for stuttering frame rates despite 'PlayStation-esque graphics', not taking advantage of the analog stick, and failing to compare to the 3D platformer competition on the Nintendo 64 such as Super Mario 64. Whether the player slightly presses the joystick forward or presses it all the way, Gex runs full speed ahead. Running on the less powerful PlayStation, Gex 3 was rated higher due to less 3D platformer competition and impressive graphics.
Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game and stated that 'In the end, Gex 3 is a passable game – barely. Everything about the title is cookie cutter from beginning to end.'[2]
Notes and References
- Gex 3 Preview. Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Ziff Davis. 2. 4. January 1999. 74, 76-77, 80, 82.
- Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (PS). Next Generation. Imagine Media. 54. June 1999. 93.
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