Summary [6.5 out of 10]
"Time Crisis 4 can be a blast; a lot like having one of the arcade machines in your house."
Hit the jump to read the detailed review
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?
can't wait for this to hit the Uk ^_^
Time Crisis = Pure arcade gaming fun in your room.
It might not be a professional gaming website, but it's sure a hell of a lot more informative and useful than any review i'll see on a "legit" site.
Reading this makes me want to buy the game now, as I was rather skeptical before.
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"Note to Reader
First and foremost you have to consider what Time Crisis 4 is and what it’s not.
* IT IS: A game about shooting stuff using a light gun and making you feel like you are doing cool stuff in the process on the screen.
* IT IS NOT: A story-driven game that will last 20+ hrs and make BioWare cry with envy.
I am taking this time to make this point, because if I had someone come up to me and say something like “OMG this game is so short” or “The story was stupid”… you’d have to kick them in the eyes because that has never been the point of Time Crisis.
It’s like you going to Costco, then asking for a manager and complaining that all they serve for food is Pizza and Hot dogs. If you want something else… go somewhere else. If you want to use a light gun to shoot dudes in the face like you used to in the arcade and had a blast doing it, your question should be “Does Time Crisis 4 give this to me?”. If you want a game that is 25hrs long with a twisting and turning story, deep characters and insane world physics with vehicles… it’s not this game.
All good but I don't like the cross in the game, I've never seen a gun games with a cross on the screen before.