Game Name: Time Crisis 4 and Guncon 3

Genre: Lightgun Game

Publisher: Sony

Rating: 16+ (PEGI)

Platform: PlayStation3

 

Time Crisis has been the meat of arcade gamer's diets for long over a decade now. Now Time Crisis 4 is available for PlayStation3 owners to get their teeth into and the new Guncon 3 even supports HD televisions.

 

It's blatantly obvious from the start that Time Crisis does not push the PlayStation3's technology in any way. It would in fact be fair to say that the graphics are barely better than what the PlayStation2 is capable of, yet the incredibly addictive gameplay that Time Crisis is famous for is still present and the new Guncon 3 shows incredible promise that could potentially give birth to a new breed of lightgun gaming.

 

Time Crisis 4 has been in the arcades for quite some time now but the new remake for the PS3 console has given rise to a brand new feature that absolutely blew me away - FPS mode.

 

For those of you not familiar with video game related acronyms, FPS stands for first-person shooter and is obviously a shooting game played from a first-person perspective. Because the Guncon 3 has two analogue sticks on it, FPS' can be played like they would with a standard controller but has the added functionality of being able to aim at the screen with something that actually resembles a gun.

 

Time Crisis 4 isn't particularly a great game, it's getting quite old and consequently the graphics are looking a little dated. But the game is still fun. The one thing that is really awe-inspiring is the Guncon 3. It's well made, well thought out, unbelievably accurate and comes in a disgusting bright orange colour.  Now the last point doesn't seem like a good thing at first, but when you consider that we wont have idiots running around the streets, trying to hold up post offices with it, I'm sure you will agree that it's actually a very sensible colour.

 

We would love to see new Resident Evil games that take advantage of this incredible new controller, or downloads of the old classic, Point Blank from the PSN. The prospect of what this lightgun can do is amazing.

 

 

SCORE: 8 / 10

9:10am Friday 9th May 2008

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