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Time Crisis 4 Comments by Kristan Reed

14 April, 2008

Bullet hell.

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Azazel
14/04/08 @ 12:26
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oh noes
dog2_99
14/04/08 @ 12:28
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Got this last year from the States and have to agree its pretty poor!
bad09
14/04/08 @ 12:31
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NOOOOO!!!!!

Guess I'll stick with PS2 and TC2 thanks to LCD topgun, I'll get this if it gets really cheap. Shame as this would have been one of my first purchases when I got my PS3 :(
Kon
14/04/08 @ 12:39
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I love me some shooters of this ilk so I'm sad that TC4 didn't perform well enough (technically) to spark the genre back to what it was during the the early to mid PS2 years.

Having purchased a new CRT last December so I can still play my PS1&2 shooters as they were meant to be was in hindsight a very smart move. Now if only Sega would bother themselves to port Ghost Squad and HOTD to the PS2...
thomasbeff
14/04/08 @ 12:46
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Sheeeeet. I had high hopes for this.
Les
14/04/08 @ 12:47
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"NOOOOO!!!!!"

You didn't read any of the US reviews for the game? This shouldn't come as a surprise.
uiruki
14/04/08 @ 12:50
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In fairness, the original arcade game did shame the PS2 :p So damn flickery!

Shame to hear about the gun itself, though. I was hoping for that grip to be removable or at least swappable for lefties.
Vice.Destroyer
14/04/08 @ 12:56
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That's a bit of a shame. I was really hoping that this could kickstart a return to popularity for lightgun games. I am still upset that there has never been a home version of Virtua Cop 2 & 3. Anybody know where I can get a copy of those games? Can I buy them for my laptop?
flapps
14/04/08 @ 13:07
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Leftie warning - I got this game in the States last year, but have to warn all lefties that it's almost impossible to play through the FPS section as a left-handed player. You're forced to hold and aim the gun in your right hand, and move etc. with your left hand which didn't work for me at all.
Arcade mode is fine (but still cumbersome as a leftie, I had to adopt a 'wrap-around, under hand grip to reach the cover buttons).

Anyway, just a note for all fellow lefties so you're not too disappointed...
Kryon
14/04/08 @ 13:11
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LOL Crisis 4.
Psiloc
14/04/08 @ 13:16
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I hated when Time Crisis went in the frantic automatic weapons kind of direction. There was always plenty of that shit in the arcades.

Time Crisis 1 FTW.
Les
14/04/08 @ 13:23
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"I was really hoping that this could kickstart a return to popularity for lightgun games."

The Wii is your best bet if you really like lightgun games.
Big Swiss
14/04/08 @ 13:33
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too bad, loved this in the casinos 10 years ago! but they way thsi is, I will not buy this for sure! I would take ti for free!

I doubt that left right hanfish shit I read in these comments...............why should that matter?
Kon
14/04/08 @ 13:41
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@Vice.Destroyer

Virtua Cop 2 was converted to home consoles. There's a great version of it on the Saturn and you can also find it for the PS2 via Virtua Cop Elite Edition (PAL only). There's also a version for winPC but these days you'll be hard pressed to find a setup where you can play it properly with a light gun (use a mouse). As always Ebay is your best bet to find such games.

@Les

Indeed, but unfortunately it just doesn't work or feel the same, no matter how many plastic contraptions for the wiimote they come up with. Still, its better than nothing.
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Rodafowa
14/04/08 @ 13:42
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The Wii is your best bet if you really like lightgun games.

Anyone have an opinion on which of the current group of Wii LG-type shooters is the best? I've heard conflicting reports about Ghost Squad and the Resi shooter.
mingster
14/04/08 @ 13:45
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nothing beats GunBullet/Point Blank
hahayou
14/04/08 @ 13:45
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@Vice.Destroyer

Virtua Cop 2 is in this PC port compilation:

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/904613/X...

And there was a home version on the Saturn too of course. Great fun.

edit: beaten by Kon...
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Kon
14/04/08 @ 13:48
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@Rodafowa

Those are two very different games.

Ghost Squad is much like the arcade games of old, as it's simple and short. The story is just there for the sake of it. A good choice if you don't mind getting only a few hours of game out of your purchase. Its also good for a quick fix play.

Umbrella Chronicles take a different approach with very long stages (a single stage can take longer to get through than a complete play of ghost squad), various weapons to use at once, a more involving story complete with documents to read and plenty of cut-scenes.

Either are also good fun with a second player.
mossychops001
14/04/08 @ 13:52
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Not as good as Mad Dog Mc Cree then?
Artemis_Matsas
14/04/08 @ 13:55
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@mossychops001

Mad Dog McCree Rules! OMG i still have that CD somewhere !!!
Arwin
14/04/08 @ 14:11
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It's very sad. I hope one day a good game will emerge again, because I did really love this genre and the only reason I stopped playing the previous Time Crises is because modern TVs don't work with it.

I'm hoping that the gun isn't actually as bad as it seems and that some other game will show this. It seems to have some potential at least.

And yeah, Point Blank was great also, but only really as a multiplayer game for two guns. ;)
Aretak
14/04/08 @ 14:12
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The best thing about the Namco arcade shooters was always the recoil-enabled GunCon and the satisfying noise it made when you fired. That was never replicated at home (officially anyway, I seem to remember some naff 3rd party PSone gun with recoil).
monkie_king
14/04/08 @ 14:20
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Yeah, but if you played seriously you'd clamp the slide in place with your free hand anyway =)

Time Crisis (and Project Titan) and Point Blank 1 & 2 were amongst my most-played PS1 games. It's a real shame the Wii didn't live up to its promise of being a viable shooter platform.
Triggerhappytel
14/04/08 @ 14:44
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@ irnchriz - yes, because it's almost certainly the PS3's fault and probably Sony's fault too that this is a poor game. Idiot.
dk_rare
14/04/08 @ 14:45
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Looks like the Wii is now the king of gun games. Maybe people just don't like guns anymore *shrugs*
bad09
14/04/08 @ 14:55
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@ Les

"You didn't read any of the US reviews for the game? This shouldn't come as a surprise."

Nah I never bother with yank sites, although a few guys on here did mention it was poo, I just didn't want to believe it!

Rodafowa
14/04/08 @ 15:00
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Cheers Kon, much appreciated. I think I'll hang on 'till I see Ghost Squad going cheap.
wa_uk
14/04/08 @ 15:06
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crumbs. reads more like a 3. 5 sounds rather generous. pity
FooAtari
14/04/08 @ 15:32
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@Triggerhappytel

In a way doesn't really matter whos fault it is, it's another exclusive that isn't that great. Exclusives are all that seperate the 360 and PS3 really and owning both the 360 fairs better in the department so far. And that's what people will look at, who is developing the games has little relevance.
SlackMaster
14/04/08 @ 15:54
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Danger!!!
Bobby Dazzler
14/04/08 @ 17:32
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Has anyone tried to play this 2 player yet?

Do you need two sensors [and an extra USB hub] or can you make do with two guns and one LED thing?

Fortunately I have a 60 gig console so no need to buy a hub.

You can get the guns solus somewhere in the world right? Saves buying an extra copy of the bundle or consulting one of these self-help books...

"1001 uses for an unwanted copy of Time Crisis 4"

"1 use for 1001 unwanted copies of Time Crisis 4"
[Chapter 1 - return the stock to Sony for full credit]
suicida
14/04/08 @ 17:34
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Boo. I loved Time Crisis 1 and Point Blank 1 & 2 on PS1... Haven't read anything about TC4 until now and am really disappointed that it's shit. I'm left handed as well so am definitely not going to get it now, why do they need to overcomplicate things? The original gun worked great for R and L handers!
jaydeluxe
14/04/08 @ 17:54
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No-one else get the first image caption?
Please can they just remake the PS1 classic Die Hard Trilogy I with better graphics and make it work with LCD tellys.
CHAZBIGPOTATO
14/04/08 @ 21:22
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That bloke in the picture looks like Beckham
woodnotes
14/04/08 @ 22:02
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And another PS3 exclusive lives up to expectations.
miiiguel
14/04/08 @ 22:22
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You can't talk bad stuff about PS3 games, brown-shirts are patrolling the forums. Be warned.

This game rocks.
Markusdragon
15/04/08 @ 00:18
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@miiguel.

Godwinned. You lose the internets.
Zuiyo
15/04/08 @ 02:07
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Good review.
tridentz_83
15/04/08 @ 03:40
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@ irnchriz, woodnotes, miiiguel

Gosh, people were discussing the game itself here and these idiotic xbots just had to wade in with their snide remarks...

Edit: for the record, I dont own a PS3, i just can't stand moronic fanboys =P
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woodnotes
15/04/08 @ 07:58
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@ tridentz_83:

I'm not an Xbot or a fanboy. It was a joke. Moron.

Why don't you try some bodybuilding to relieve your insecurities.
tridentz_83
15/04/08 @ 08:53
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@ woodnotes

LoL, why the overreaction? U might want to dish some of that advice back to yourself instead of resorting to puerile insults =P
krudster [mod]
15/04/08 @ 10:02
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First image caption refers to Die Hard Trilogy, which the first section of the game reminds me of.
RyanT
15/04/08 @ 23:37
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@ tridentz

Because apparently calling people xbots, fanboys or moronic isn't using puerile insults.

They made a joke about a game that turned out bad playing on the perception (and truth) of PS3's lack of decent exclusives compared to 360. Nothing wrong with that.

That doesn't make them automatically fanboys or xbots. That makes them every other person on the internet who realises the same thing.
tridentz_83
16/04/08 @ 04:26
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@ RyanT

Of couse it's a joke...but a moronic and needless fanboy joke at that. Jabbing in sarcastic comments (oh yet another winning exclusive for the PS3! Hurrah!) when people were talking about the game is not constructive, the only intent was to insult and to ridicule. If that's not moronic then nothing is.
Foat1
28/04/08 @ 03:04
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bad graphics

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