While there is not original campaign, the game does feature a shooting gallery and mission modes. A remake with enhanced graphics and audio was released in 2001 for the Sony PlayStation 2, compatible with "GunCon 2". As an added bonus, a red reticule used by a Mook is visualized as a direct hit to players, allowing them to know exactly when they should let go of the pedal to dodge (which wasn't present in the first, another reason why the original was so strict). Both players go through the levels at slightly different vantage points on the action and sections with more pronounced differences (one player on the ground, the another on a railing above). This installment is where the game began setting up two cabinets hooked together for two-player co-operative play. Time Crisis II - Appearing in arcades in 1997, this game sees two new protagonists, Keith Martin and Robert Baxter, keep Neodyne Industries from launching a nuclear satellite into space with the aim to Take Over the World.It was ported one year later onto the Sony PlayStation, bundled with Namco's signature Light Gun peripheral "GunCon" and featured an original campaign which had Richard infiltrating a hotel that is a front for an arms factory that sells weapons to terrorists. Time Crisis - Released for the arcades in 1995, the game puts you in the shoes of Richard Miller known as the "One Man Army" infiltrating a castle to rescue a president's kidnapped daughter from terrorists.
TIME CRISIS CRISIS ZONE ARCADE GAME SERIES
The primary installments in the Time Crisis series are: In fact, they mostly just prevent excessive turtling and make sure the player eventually dies even if they never press the pedal. Later games toned it down considerably: only one life is taken, and the limits are much easier to deal with. In the first game, the timer was the main challenge: it had strict limits, and you fail the mission if time ran out, forcing you to the continue screen if you want to continue. A timer is constantly running down to zero, being replenished each time players clear a "room" of enemies. The only two constants are the "VSSE" (Vital Situation Swift Execution), a Heroes "R" Us organization, and "Wild Dog", a freelance mercenary who serves as each villain's Dragon, despite blowing himself up in increasingly impressive pyrotechnics each time.Īs one might expect, time is an important part of the series. This means that unlike most light gun games, any attack can be dodged without harm even once it's been launched, although the reaction time you have can be punishingly low.Įach game follows a different set of characters as they gun their way through unrelated international crises. Its main distinguishing feature is its use of a foot pedal: the player holds the pedal down to attack when the pedal is released, the player hides behind a nearby wall/tree/bench/other object and is safe from attack, but can't retaliate. How are you ever supposed to stop this onslaught? Enter Time Crisis by Bandai Namco Entertainment, a series of Light Gun Games for the arcades, now in its fifth iteration. Admit it: whenever you play those Light Gun Games, the absurd amount of enemies that constantly chip away your health/life makes you believe The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard.
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