The Right to Bear Arms
I love gun games. Since Duck Hunt on the 8-bit NES I have played a lot of them. Unfortunately, these games can be hard to find outside arcades. On the PS2 I finally got my own light gun, the G-Con. My best mate and I played through Time Crisis, Vampire Night and Virtua Cop 1 and 2. When they started getting too easy we started playing with the off-hand to get more of a challenge, then eventually, 2 guns for 1 person to play the game like a John Woo movie. I’m not sure if you have tried that, but its stupidly hard. Anyway, the guns evolved, used recoil/kickback for shots and just got cooler. When I go to Timezones in Perth, I tend to have a ritual of playing a few gun games and 1 credit on a Capcom game. Things are good. Then I hear Time Crisis 4 is coming out. I check the catalogues and sure enough, its there “with gun”. SWEET.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? I mean really. The old guns I have were bright colours, from what I understand its a legal issue because they can’t look like guns. For the same reason, most aren’t wireless. But holy crap. This is just disgusting. Im not really one to get caught up with aesthetics but it just looks awful. There is also half a controller sticking out of it. Why? For Time Crisis 4. The basic development is described here to give the user the ability to move around and still feel like you are using 2 hands on the gun. If this was the case, I think the realism here would be lost when you feel your left hand is a few inches from the gun itself. Im pretty unimpressed. Arcade gun games focused entirely on computer movement, and your sharpshooting skills and frantic action. This is what made them fun. In giving the user control over the movement, they are pretty much making this into a FPS using a gun. And you know what? I fucking hate FPS games. Maybe I’ll get a Wii and House of the Dead.
