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Time Crisis 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. An innovative way to play a first person shooter with a gun controller. With the guncon 3 it allows you to play this first person shooter with more action adn detail than any other game. I just hope that they bring out more games that are compatible with the gun. The plot is thicker and seems to jut add to the game play. Also the stunning detail and resolution of this game make it the best gun game out thus far. The price was completely worth every penny.

Decent game; not so decent controller...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Time Crisis 4 w/ Guncon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well for starters, light guns haven't really come a long way since duck hunt. Although they claim it's more accurate since it comes with 2 sensors to put on your TV kind of like the Wii's sensor bar. The game is the same as the arcade version but a lot cheaper to play (ha ha ha). I quickly lost interest and the Guncon 3 controller was cheaply made, but it was fun and would be best fr two player (unfortunately the controllers are hard to find seperately!).

Cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall good game, the multiplayer feature is cool. Really two games in one since you have arcade mode. Might be a little on the easy side - completed the arcade mode in a few days. The led sensors are not long enough for a 46 inch TV - good for small TV sets.

Time Crisis 4

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is not what I expected. I was thinking I was going to enjoy one of those old school Guncon 2 Games that I bought for my PS2. It was actually a First Person Shooter using the Guncon 3 as a controller. Graphically it reminds me of the first generation PS2 FPS. It does bring a new way to play a FPS but it is poorly polished. The AI is the same as playing a Guncon 2 game and not the average FPS AI. Enemies will spawn from thin air to attack you. You can check an area throughly and next thing you know, you are back attack from an area you already checked.
The Guncon3 (Far as I tried) is not backwards compatible with the Guncon2 games. The Guncon2 games do not sense the Guncon3 is there. I still havent tried to use the setup with a Guncon2 instead of a Guncon3 to see if it works with the Guncon2 games. On a Hi-Def television, the Guncon2 guns do not work. The Guncon3 does come with some light sensitive TV mounts to compensate for that, but I have not tried them with the Guncon2 to see if it works.
Overall: If you are expecting that Arcade experience, (House of the Dead series or Time Crisis 1-3) you are in for a bid disappointment. If you always wanted to play a FPS with a Guncon then you will like this game. Just dont expect the quality the last few years FPSs.

pretty fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i had to replace my first order because the light sensors were defective. didn't know that sensors were supposed to light up (hard to see). once i got a set that worked, it was all game. haven't really tried any time crisis game before, but so far it kept me going for more.

Great shooter with limited game play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My only experience with the Time Crisis series goes back to the original title that was on Playstation 1. My friends and I had a blast playing that game over and over.

Time Crisis 4 is similar in its game play but the graphics are obviously much better. Actually, I was surprised how good the graphics were as they appeared to be much better than any first generation PS3 game.
There are essentially two ways (storylines) to play this game. 1. The arcade way which is like Time Crisis 1 on the original Playstation or 2. a much longer version that is more involved and breathes new life into the Time Crisis series.

The 1st way is a lot of fun and will no doubt be the storyline your friends will play when they come over and visit. You merely start shooting and ducking which is easy and why anyone can play this game. There is a new element that allows you to take on enemies coming from multiple directions, meaning you have to turn your character to the left or right (very easy to do) to gun down your foes. You can also pick up 4 different weapons which you can cycle through while you're ducking/hiding. You can get through this entire sequence in 35-45 minutes if you don't die.

The 2nd way involves you walking through the game like any first person shooter (like Resistance: Fall of Man). There are two toggle joy sticks on the gun that you use just like in any other shooter. The difference is you don't have to hone your aim using the joysticks, you merely use the joystick to get your target on screen and then you aim the gun and fire. Your health level increases as you stand still for periods of time. This makes it initially pretty easy, but when you find yourself in a heated firefight, it can become a little dicey.
The first level I thought was pretty boring and I was beginning to dread the game, but after that, each of the following levels were much more engaging. I don't know why they made the first level so dull with an environment that has no interaction with your character. You can also jump, crawl, and zoom-in (sniper) much like any other shooter game. It will take you about 3 hours to get through this without dying.

There are also several mini-games you can choose from the top screen. They mostly mimic skeet shooting with discs or balloons and provide a good challenge, albeit it a frustrating one. (Frustrating because I'm not too good at it)

Regarding the accuracy of aiming the Guncon, I found the system to be nearly dead-on exact. Any slight discrepancy (and were talking centimeters here) I attribute to my own inability to correctly aim the gun when setting the 5 point targeting system. I play this on a 50 inch LCD rear projection Sony while sitting about 7-8 feet away from the TV. The aiming is just as good if not better than the original installment, which I always thought to be flawless.

I picked this game up on Amazon when they were selling it for the crazy price of $49.99. It was definitely worth the money considering you received the Guncon (about a $30 value in itself) with the game . I don't know if I would pay $90 or possibly even $80 for the same game though. This is primarily because I'm not drawn to play the game again now that I've beaten it...though that is probably because I spent so much initial time playing the game that I'm burned-out for the time being. I'm sure in a month or two I'll want to pick it up again.

old game better graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

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