If you've been in an arcade in the past decade, you've probably played one of the Time Crisis games. A fast paced shooter, players have typically been tasked with saving the world from rogue soldiers, mercenaries and other threats. But now, you don't have to travel to an arcade to defeat these terrorists; you can do so from the comfort of your own home. Later this month, Namco Bandai will release the latest installment in the series, Time Crisis 4 for the PlayStation 3. IGN managed to get their hands on the new GunCon game to check out the arcade experience.
GG writes: No trip to the arcade is complete without some light gun blasting action. Especially co-op style! So we're going to have a look at what's still one of the best around, the classic blast-em up, Time Crisis 4.
El33tonline writes:
"... Now though, light gun games seem pretty darn archaic compared with what’s available on home consoles and PCs, what with full 3D first-person shooters that allow gamers to interact with environments and move through areas at their own pace, using their own strategy and guile (and arsenal of weapons) to make it through a wall of enemies. Now-a-days, ‘on-rails’ shooters are considered a cop out – why not just make a full 3D game?
Just because something seems a little old, however, doesn’t mean that it’s not a whole ton of fun, and Time Crisis: Razing Storm packs enough ‘old fun’ onto one disc to make you forget about advances in videogames, and just lets you kick back, squeeze the trigger and have a blast!"
Motion controls such as those found on the PlayStation Move and the Nintendo Wii give you the option of bringing a very specific arcade genre into your home: the light gun game.
We've seen these games on Nintendo's system, but with Time Crisis: Razing Storm Namco, Bandai has the chance to further prove the PlayStation 3 can be a good home for the "kill everything on screen" games.
Razing Storm doesn't just include the titular game, it also packs in the arcade version of Time Crisis 4, as well as the little-known Deadstorm Pirates. For $50, that's quite the variety of games.
Its been known that Deadstorm Pirates would come with this game for a while now. How did this get approved?
loved TC2 on the ps2, allowing you to plug in a second contol which you could put on the floor to act as the pedal you had in the arcade was a piece of genius.
I'm not sure what I'm more hungry for. Time crisis 4 the game itself. Or, the chance to get to take hold of that new guncon