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| - Time Crisis is a story line created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the character. It features a temporal rift that causes Peter to encounter his teenage self, about two weeks after his uncle's death. The story featured two art styles: the modern, realistic art style that turns young Peter Parker into a more modern form; and the classic art style with bright colour backgrounds that cause modern characters to resemble themselves at that point in time.
- . Time Crisis . Kantaris . Moz . Rachel MacPherson . Richard Miller . Sherudo Garo . Web Spinner . Wild Dog
- Admit it: whenever you play those Light Gun Games, the absurd amount of enemies that constantly chip away your health/life makes you believe The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. How are you ever suppose to stop this onslaught? Enter Time Crisis by Namco Bandai, a series of Light Gun Games for the arcades, now in its fourth iteration. Its main distinguishing feature is its use of a foot pedal: the player holds the pedal down to attack; when the pedal is released, the player hides behind a nearby wall/tree/bench/other object and is safe from attack, but can't retaliate. This means that unlike most light gun games, any attack can be dodged without harm even once it's been launched, although the reaction time you have can be punishingly low.
- Time Crisis is a 1995 action film about a small nation that is under terror when Rachel, the president's daughter, is kidnapped by a madman named Sherudo Guardo. With that, it's up to secret agent Richard Miller from the VSSE to save the day. The only thing standing between Richard and Rachel is an army of henchmen, a dozen or so murderous ninjas, and a few robotic assassins all led by a criminal mastermind known as "Wild Dog", who is involved in all of this. A light gun arcade game adaption based on the film was developed by Namco, and was released for the arcade and the Sony Playstation (which is compatible with the "Guncon" light gun). On October 5, 1993 while filming this movie, as Crispin Glover performed his part with the gun (a real firearm that barely fired a bullet) shooting at Os
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| - Admit it: whenever you play those Light Gun Games, the absurd amount of enemies that constantly chip away your health/life makes you believe The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. How are you ever suppose to stop this onslaught? Enter Time Crisis by Namco Bandai, a series of Light Gun Games for the arcades, now in its fourth iteration. Its main distinguishing feature is its use of a foot pedal: the player holds the pedal down to attack; when the pedal is released, the player hides behind a nearby wall/tree/bench/other object and is safe from attack, but can't retaliate. This means that unlike most light gun games, any attack can be dodged without harm even once it's been launched, although the reaction time you have can be punishingly low. Each game follows a different set of characters as they gun their way through unrelated international crises. The only two constants are the VSSE (Vital Situation Swift Execution), a Heroes-R-Us organization the heroes belong to, and "Wild Dog", a freelance mercenary who serves as each villain's Dragon, despite blowing himself up in increasingly impressive pyrotechnics each time. As one might expect, time is an important part of the series. A timer is constantly running down to zero, being replenished each time you clear a "room" of enemies. In the first game, the timer was the main challenge: it had strict limits, and you lost all your lives if time ran out. Later games toned it down considerably: you only lose one life, and the limits are much easier to deal with. In fact, they mostly just prevent excessive turtling and make sure the player eventually dies even if they never press the pedal. Starting with Time Crisis 2, the game is set up as two cabinets hooked together for two-player co-operative play. Both players will go through the levels at slightly different vantage points on the action and sections with more pronounced differences (one player on the ground, the another on a railing above). As an added bonus, a red reticule used by a Mook is visualized as a direct hit to the player, thus allowing them to know exactly when they should let go of the pedal to dodge (which wasn't present in the first, another reason why the original was so strict). Time Crisis 3 grants players extra weapons, in the form of a machine gun, shotgun and grenade launcher, which were more powerful but had limited ammunition. To refill them, players had to shoot a specific yellow Mook. The latest Time Crisis 4 forces players to take part in "Multi-Screen Scenarios", where near endless Mooks come and attack from different directions (until the timer reaches zero, and provided that the player survives). Also worth mentioning here is Time Crisis: Project Titan, a Gaiden Game/semi-sequel that follows the protagonist in the first, which actually showcases the "Multi-Screen Scenario" before 4, and Crisis Zone, basically Time Crisis with a machine gun. It's sometimes considered part of the same series or at least a spinoff, thanks to the loose connections between the main games, although neither the VSSE nor Wild Dog appear. Another similar game, Razing Storm, is a combination of 3 and Crisis Zone with Playstation3 hardware, featuring two members of a hi-tech special forces unit. Like Zone, the players have a machine gun as their standard weapon, but will switch to special weapons like rocket launchers and sniper rifles as the situation warrants, such as sniping rooftop sentries to give a squadmate time to call down a Kill Sat strike or when a Humongous Mecha crashes the party. The games have been ported to all three generations of Playstations; the original and Project Titan for Play Station, 2 and 3 and Crisis Zone for Play Station 2, and 4 and Razing Storm for PlayStation 3 (though 4 was done twice over: once as its own game with a rather awkward light gun, and again as an additional title to Razing Storm, alongside DeadStorm Pirates. All three games utilize the Move). Additionally, the original, 3, 4 (the first release), Crisis Zone and Razing Storm have exclusive scenarios not found in the arcades that expands more of the story, usually from another character's perspective. There's been several ports to the iPad as well.
- Time Crisis is a story line created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the character. It features a temporal rift that causes Peter to encounter his teenage self, about two weeks after his uncle's death. The story featured two art styles: the modern, realistic art style that turns young Peter Parker into a more modern form; and the classic art style with bright colour backgrounds that cause modern characters to resemble themselves at that point in time.
- . Time Crisis . Kantaris . Moz . Rachel MacPherson . Richard Miller . Sherudo Garo . Web Spinner . Wild Dog
- Time Crisis is a 1995 action film about a small nation that is under terror when Rachel, the president's daughter, is kidnapped by a madman named Sherudo Guardo. With that, it's up to secret agent Richard Miller from the VSSE to save the day. The only thing standing between Richard and Rachel is an army of henchmen, a dozen or so murderous ninjas, and a few robotic assassins all led by a criminal mastermind known as "Wild Dog", who is involved in all of this. A light gun arcade game adaption based on the film was developed by Namco, and was released for the arcade and the Sony Playstation (which is compatible with the "Guncon" light gun). On October 5, 1993 while filming this movie, as Crispin Glover performed his part with the gun (a real firearm that barely fired a bullet) shooting at Oscar Maynard, what everyone didn't know was that the gun used was loaded, and that when it finally went off, Oscar Maynard was stuck by the bullet and was killed. The director of this film, Michael Dempsy was later arrested and was charged with using a deadly weapon as a movie prop, however, Dempsy was soon bailed out of jail with the help of his attorney. With the actor dead, Sherudo Guardo's death scene remained uncut and became part of the film, in which production was delayed due to the incident.
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