Video Games : Time Crisis 4 (Includes Guncon 3)

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Namco
EAN: 0722674110051
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Namco
Manufacturer: Namco
Model: 11005
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Publisher: Namco
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 813
Studio: Namco

Features:

New Guncon - The new Guncon is compatible with all TVs and has been enhanced with 2 analog sticks that will allow you to move freely in FPS mode.
Free Roaming FPS – Exclusive to the console, you are able to roam freely in FPS style through various stages. Change your camera angle, move while crouching, standing and more!
Multiple modes – Along with Story and Arcade mode, destroy biological weapons in Crisis Mission mode, test your sharp shooting skills or go head to head with your friend in various mini games.
Downloadable content – Extend your gameplay by downloading additional Crisis Missions.

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Product Description:
Reborn on the Playstation 3, Time Crisis 4 includes a full FPS game mode, stunning HD quality graphics, a newly designed Guncon to enhance every aspect of the game and an intense new storyline.The U.S. Army's Internal Surveillance Group (ISG) has learned that a top-secret weapon developed by the armed forces is about to fall into the hands of the European terrorist organization known as W.O.L.F. In response, the ISG instructs Captain William Rush to head to California and investigate the incident. Arriving at Pier 5, the enemy's purported hideout, Captain Rush finds himself face to face with unimaginable enemy forces and menacing biological weapons. Meanwhile, having received similar information, the European Union dispatches Giorgio Bruno and Evan Bernard, two agents from the V.S.S.E. International Intelligence Agency. Upon their arrival in California, however, the pair is ambushed by a mysterious military force? Test your sharp shooting skills and complete your objective within seconds, or go head-to-head with a friend in a variety of challenging mini games. In addition to your standard weapons assortment, such as handguns and shotguns, upgrade to grenade launchers and mounted machine guns (FPS mode only) to increase your lethal arsenal. Also features unlockable console exclusive bonus weapons.

From the Manufacturer:
Turn your living room into a state of the art arcade arena! Join operatives Giorgio and Evan to investigate and prevent a top secret weapon from falling into the hands of international terrorists.

The latest and most advanced title in the popular Time Crisis series is now arriving on the PS3. Time Crisis delivers the first and only arcade style interactive FPS gaming experience on the next gen console with HD quality graphics. Superior to its Arcade counterpart, Time Crisis 4 is reborn with additional new free roaming FPS stages along with a new and improved Guncon. In addition to future downloadable content, Time Crisis 4 brings a fresh new look that will carry the series into the next generation.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Can't Save in Arcade Mode
This game had great potential to becoming one of the funnest game for the PS3 system. The graphics are okay and the Guncon is accurate if you know how to calibrate it right. Now, let's talk about the gameplay, and here is where the developers screwed up (hope there is a patch that can fix this nuance someday). Let me explain, first TC has always be a gun on rails arcade game and they should've left it like that. The FPS mode is cumbersome, the controls feel clunky. Not a lot of fun for me.

Arcade, here is where they really messed up the game. Come on, who had the brilliant idea to limit the number of saves to 3?? Imagine you only get 3 saves to beat the game in Arcade mode. Since when TC only allowed people to put 3 quarters before they had to start the game all over from the beginning. And this is what the game does, you only get 3 saves and believe me when you have to re-start the game for a third time it gets old very quickly. I'm a casual gamer and I don't have the time to master this game to the level that I would make it through the end with only 3 saves. I just hope there will be new games that will make use of the Guncon in the future.

Rating:

- old game better graphics
this game was ok but nothing inovative about it and got bored of playing it after a couple of times. i bought it for 49 dollars on a GB special and got about my money's worth back as a tradin at a local buy sell and trade store. overall atleast i didn't waste my money on it.

Rating:

- It would be Good if it was a $60 game But $80 is too much
This game is a port of an arcade game. One of the features is the included light gun that requires a ugly tangled mess of wires and a sensor array that you have to hang on top of your television. It takes about 5 minutes of setup to play this game if you don't like ugly crap hanging off your HDTV. The light gun and the sensor bar each also take up a usb port on your ps3. Now once you get this mess of a device set up you can begin playing the game.

The Guncon has an number of analog sticks and buttons on it for switching to the different weapons, and a button for reloading and hiding. I found holding the second handle to be uncomfortable for long periods, and you left handed shooters are out of luck. This is a bad un-ambidextrous design for the gun. The game itself is pretty fun, but just simply mucks up the fun with having one button to switch between the different guns you may carry. I really like Time Crisis 1 and 2 much better due to the simplicity of weapons and not having to deal with an uncomfortable posture holding this gun.

There is also a side game that uses the analog sticks to move around like halo, but I found the level design really un inspired. The control scheme sounds great on paper, but do to having to aim with the unergonomic design of the light gun, playing in this mode got tiring after a while and actually hurt my wrist, back and shoulder.

On the bright side, the game itself is pretty good for a light gun game and contains your usual point and kill style of game that you are expecting. Overall the game is a pretty big dissapointment due the the implementation of hard and is way overpriced. If the gun was one handed and didn't feel like I was operating a belt sander I would have scored it better.

Rating:

- Superficial and short-lived.
If you think that playing this game will fulfill any of your overly nostalgic memories of playing Time Crisis at the local Golfland, then you'd be sadly mistaken. The gun does not seem very accurate, and has somewhat of a lag time between where you aim it on the screen and where the reticle appears. Plus the arcade-shooting portion of the game is very, very short. The added FPS mode is insipid, and feels like it was just tacked on to make this a complete game. All-in-all, just a two-star product. I would only purchase this if Amazon (which is rockingly awesome) had it for about $30 again.

Rating:

- Decent game; not so decent controller...
I must admit, I'm new to the Time Crisis series of games, but have been a casual fan of light gun games over the years, including Duck Hunt, Area 51, and various others that you find in movie theatre arcades these days. I bought this game during one of Amazon's DotD (deal of the day) promos, so I got it for $39. I'd say it was worth it for that amount, but I would not pay much more for this set.

The game is fun, it's another light gun shooting game. The arcade mode is pretty much a typical light gun game, pretty fun, with variable difficulty and two characters to choose from, so there's plenty of gameplay there. There's also a "Complete Mission" mode that uses the additional controls on the Guncon 3 to make an FPS/light gun hybrid game. It's decent, although the character movement is a bit sluggish, but it is otherwise okay. Don't expect a deep story, it's the same tried and true good guys vs. terrorists that you get in a game like this, but hey, that's what this genre is about, mmkay? The target practice minigames are fun, and one of the only ways you can play multiplayer with only one Guncon.

The game is only half of this package, and I daresay the better part. The other part is the Guncon 3 controller, a lightgun in a series of three that Namco has made over the years for the various Playstation Consoles. This newest addition to the lightgun lineup is different, as it uses a system similar to the Nintendo Wii sensor bar to triangulate the position of the gun onscreen. They have to use this method because many modern TV's don't work with the older light guns because of the way that those older guns work by using light from the screen to detect the position of the pointer. The Wii sensor bar seems reasonably accurate to detect the pointing of the Wii remote. The Guncon Sensors are not. It's jittery, inaccurate, and requires constant calibration to get working. It will work, but get familiar with the calibration screen, you'll be using it a LOT.

This is a decent package, with a decent game, not great, but decent, and a sub-par controller. As I said before, if you can get this package for less than $50, it might be worth your while, but don't pay much more for it.


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