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Mainline Entry 01 - Virtua Cop
Formats: Arcade, PC, Saturn, Playstation 2
Another Yu Suzuki gift to gamers, Virtua Cop took the lightgun game and applied System 2 3D visuals, placing you in the role of either Michael Hardy or James Cools. Shooting enemies and avoiding citizens, you worked your way through each stage in what would become a precursor to other popular lightgun series such as The House of the Dead and Time Crisis. The game broadly received positive reviews, ultimately limited by how it was part of an aging genre.
Mainline Entry 02 - Virtua Cop 2
Formats: Arcade, PC, Saturn, Playstation 2, Dreamcast
The sequel improved the visual quality and added selectable alternate routes. Adding a third character, Janet Marshall, the game was largely an exercise in refinement but none the less a successful one becoming a stablemate in arcades for many years until slowly rival series took its place.
Mainline Entry 03 - Virtua Cop 3
Formats: Arcade
An attempt was made to bring this to Xbox but it remains an arcade exclusive, itself now 16 years old. The third game took a while to arrive but featured strong visuals even if the blue skies art style was now gone. This time the key gameplay change was a bullet time function, topped up by shooting enemies. Players could also use different guns, toggled by a button press. The third entry never achieved the same level of success as its predecessor and so it remains that this is the final entry, waiting to see if Sega ever makes a late revival as they have with other series like Daytona and House of the Dead.
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Mainline Entry 01 - Virtua Cop
Formats: Arcade, PC, Saturn, Playstation 2
Another Yu Suzuki gift to gamers, Virtua Cop took the lightgun game and applied System 2 3D visuals, placing you in the role of either Michael Hardy or James Cools. Shooting enemies and avoiding citizens, you worked your way through each stage in what would become a precursor to other popular lightgun series such as The House of the Dead and Time Crisis. The game broadly received positive reviews, ultimately limited by how it was part of an aging genre.
Mainline Entry 02 - Virtua Cop 2
Formats: Arcade, PC, Saturn, Playstation 2, Dreamcast
The sequel improved the visual quality and added selectable alternate routes. Adding a third character, Janet Marshall, the game was largely an exercise in refinement but none the less a successful one becoming a stablemate in arcades for many years until slowly rival series took its place.
Mainline Entry 03 - Virtua Cop 3
Formats: Arcade
An attempt was made to bring this to Xbox but it remains an arcade exclusive, itself now 16 years old. The third game took a while to arrive but featured strong visuals even if the blue skies art style was now gone. This time the key gameplay change was a bullet time function, topped up by shooting enemies. Players could also use different guns, toggled by a button press. The third entry never achieved the same level of success as its predecessor and so it remains that this is the final entry, waiting to see if Sega ever makes a late revival as they have with other series like Daytona and House of the Dead.
Share your thoughts and memories of Virtua Cop
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