Ace Gamez writes: "It's no secret that the light-gun genre has been on the wane for quite a few years now. The heady days of the original Time Crisis, Virtua Cop and House of the Dead are long gone. Well, that's how it seemed, anyway, because much like the side-scrolling shooter, it seems that the humble light-gun genre will be next to receive a wholly surprising but largely welcome renaissance, thanks to the ever-expanding gaming demographic and increase in potential formats.
While the side-scrolling shooter made a surprise comeback thanks to downloadable games and the advent of Xbox Live, further fuelled by the PlayStation Network, light-gun shooters, whose mid-Nineties heydays seemed like a distant memory, have recently burst back onto the scene thanks in large to the creation of the Nintendo Wii, and more specifically, the Wii' s unique Wiimote controller. Unsurprisingly it was SEGA, the king of light-gun shooters, who were first to fully exploit the machine that was surely the perfect console for the arcade style light-gun shooter. In built is a user-base who are ready to eat up quick and accessible gaming, not to mention a controller that could have been made with light-gun games in mind."
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?
