Games Database
PS2
Shoot 'Em Up
| Viewed: | 3D First-person | Genre: | Shoot 'Em Up |
| Media: | DVD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Publishers: | Konami
(GB) |
Released: | 29 Mar 2002
(GB) |
| Ratings: | 3+ | ||
| Accessories: | GunCon 45 | ||
| Features: | Vibration Function Compatible, Analogue Control Compatible: analogue sticks only, Multitap adaptable | ||
Summary
Coming straight out of the arcades is Police 24/7, Konami’s answer to Sega’s Virtua Cop and Namco’s Time Crisis. A police-themed lightgun game, it’s your job to clean up the streets – with violence!
You and your partner form part of the LAPD’s elite anti-gun smuggling department, a situation that seems a little ironic, considering that you are equipped only with guns, but that’s beside the point. After an investigation into the activities of a Japanese gang suspected of running arms, you are sent along to their depot to find out once and for all what they are up to.
You are met with stubborn resistance by hordes of gang-members, all of them intent on putting several bullet holes in you. So there’s only one thing for it: return fire, and then some.
The first level takes place at the club in which the gang like to hang out. This is like a training level, inasmuch as you have lightgun games by numbers explained to you: do shoot baddies, don’t shoot innocent bystanders or fellow police. In the style of Virtua Cop, nailing the wrong people costs valuable life force.
The action then pours out into the streets of Little Tokyo, in which you engage in a brilliantly presented car chase to the airport in an attempt to stop the criminals escaping. But most of them do. Well, let’s face it, it wouldn’t be a very good game otherwise, would it? Anyway, now that the LA operation has been shut down, it’s time to tackle the problem at the source.
You then take the chase all the way to Japan. Working alongside the Japanese police, you take part in an undercover (for about three seconds) operation to remove the leaders of the gang from power.
In the arcade, Police 24/7 used a crazy motion-sensing technique to make you jump around to avoid bullets. As the PlayStation 2 can’t facilitate this, you are provided with an action button, a la Time Crisis.
Police 24/7 will please the arcade shoot-‘em-up traditionalists out there: it’s all good clean fun from the creators of Silent Scope.
You and your partner form part of the LAPD’s elite anti-gun smuggling department, a situation that seems a little ironic, considering that you are equipped only with guns, but that’s beside the point. After an investigation into the activities of a Japanese gang suspected of running arms, you are sent along to their depot to find out once and for all what they are up to.
You are met with stubborn resistance by hordes of gang-members, all of them intent on putting several bullet holes in you. So there’s only one thing for it: return fire, and then some.
The first level takes place at the club in which the gang like to hang out. This is like a training level, inasmuch as you have lightgun games by numbers explained to you: do shoot baddies, don’t shoot innocent bystanders or fellow police. In the style of Virtua Cop, nailing the wrong people costs valuable life force.
The action then pours out into the streets of Little Tokyo, in which you engage in a brilliantly presented car chase to the airport in an attempt to stop the criminals escaping. But most of them do. Well, let’s face it, it wouldn’t be a very good game otherwise, would it? Anyway, now that the LA operation has been shut down, it’s time to tackle the problem at the source.
You then take the chase all the way to Japan. Working alongside the Japanese police, you take part in an undercover (for about three seconds) operation to remove the leaders of the gang from power.
In the arcade, Police 24/7 used a crazy motion-sensing technique to make you jump around to avoid bullets. As the PlayStation 2 can’t facilitate this, you are provided with an action button, a la Time Crisis.
Police 24/7 will please the arcade shoot-‘em-up traditionalists out there: it’s all good clean fun from the creators of Silent Scope.
