PlayTM writes: "Compared to their western counterparts, Japanese arcades are a veritable joy - a mecca of noisy, garish pleasures; a sensory overload - not just because of the games, but also the crowds of teens and young adults that inhabit them.
Simple pleasures are the aim of the game in these places, and games like Time Crisis prove incredibly alluring. Taken in the right context, light-gun, on-rails shooting proves just the ticket for a few minutes of intense fun. Kiss goodbye to those 100 Yen coins. In the lounge, however, and without the quick thrill-excitement of the arcade, these titles have always been a bit hit and miss, and its little surprise that despite Namco's attempts to reinvent Time Crisis on the PS3 - this is a game that for me really is best consigned to a certain time and a certain place."
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?
