Once again, a Japanese light gun game with a horrible mixture of gun-metal screaming and synth-metal that ages a new game back ten years. Deadstorm Pirates looks like a ported up Wii game, but the art design, which seems to borrow freely from the Pirates of the Caribbean films, more than makes up it. It’s still a great looking entry in the series, but shows its age compared to the newer game. Time Crisis 4 still looks like Time Crisis 4. But there’s never a single point in the game where after some huge explosion blows out half a building, or a giant spider mech jumps from the roof and lands a foot from your face, you’ll say to yourself “Now that just looked awful.”
Sure, it looks low tech and almost childish compared to something like, say, the Killzone 3 beta. There’s constant movement, cinematic camera tracking, massive explosions, and gigantic robotic monsters of all shapes and sizes. The game’s frame rate stays steady, and while the level of detail is not on par with today’s modern first-person frag-a-thons, it’s nonetheless very easy on the eyes. As far as light gun games go, this is the best looking of the bunch. There are storylines to both, but you’ll be hard pressed to remember any of it once the credits roll. The same can be said for the other two titles included in this collection, Time Crisis 4, and Deadstorm Pirates. There are a lot of laughs to be had here, and half the fun is in figuring out whether or not that’s intentional, but that MST3K aspect isn’t enough to give the paper thin story a passing grade. What transpires is a mixture of plot and acting so cheesy that one can’t help but think that this was made to be a parody of the entire genre.
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Joe cartoons we all pretend we didn’t watch religiously twenty plus years ago. team (Strategic Command And Rescue), a hearty band of muscle bound stereotypes lifted straight from the old G.I.
Basically, there’s an uprising in a nondescript South American country when a revolutionist/terrorist attacks the United States in his bid to…well… piss off the United States, I suppose. This being a light gun game, and a collection at that, there’s not much story to be had here, though what little exists is somewhat expanded upon in the “FPS” mode.
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The genre has steadily evolved over the years, going through both peaks ( House of the Dead) and lows ( Mad Dog McRee.) This is also true of home consoles where we had classics ( Elemental Gearbolt) and stinkers ( Target: Terror.) In many ways, these games can be seen as the forefathers of current blockbusters like Halo, Killzone, and the Call of Duty series, so it seems only fitting that Namco’s newest installment in the Time Crisis series would seek to steal back a little of its lost thunder. I spent hours playing there, never knowing that just a few years later I’d be having a somewhat similar experience in my bedroom shooting ducks on my TV. This one, now long gone, was in the back left corner of what was once called the Fiesta Fun Center, a huge arcade in the lobby of the Contemporary Resort (the big A-framed hotel that the Monorail runs through.) To this day, it stands in my memory as my all time favorite arcade.
My interest in the genre began before they technically existed, as my first gaming experience of that type was actually with an old-fashioned infrared shooting gallery at Walt Disney World when I was about five or six not the one that still stands in Frontierland though. As old and seemingly outdated as they may appear compared to modern first person shooters, I have long harbored a love for light gun games.
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