Virtua Cop [Not For Resale]
Virtua Cop [Not For Resale]

Virtua Cop [Not For Resale]

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Item Description

Virtua Cop changed what a light-gun game could look like. Sega AM2's 1994 arcade shooter swapped the flat, sprite-based targets of earlier gun games for fully polygonal criminals, buildings and vehicles, and suddenly the camera could swing through warehouses and around corners like an action movie. Players step into the roles of police officers in a first-person shooting gallery, and the Saturn version brought that rush home a year later, built for Sega's light gun but playable with a pad as well.

The design is beautifully clear. Colored lock-on markers close in around each gunman to warn you how long you have before they fire, turning every room into a split-second decision about who to shoot first. Civilians wander into the line of fire and cost you if you hit them, and power-ups can be shot to grab a stronger weapon or an extra life, though one hit takes the weapon away again. Because the targets are 3D, they react to where you hit them, and it was one of the first games to let you shoot through glass, little touches that made every shootout feel physical.

Its influence is easy to trace. The polygonal approach Virtua Cop pioneered became the template for The House of the Dead and Time Crisis, and the name places it squarely in AM2's "Virtua" family beside Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing. Two players can team up, which is still the best way to play it: one person covering the left side of the screen, the other the right, both shouting about who missed the guy on the balcony.

Not For Resale copies of Virtua Cop were packed in with Saturn hardware rather than sold individually, which gives them a distinct place in a Saturn collection. Pair it with a light gun and a CRT television and the Saturn becomes a 1994 arcade cabinet in your living room, which is exactly what AM2 intended.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Sega AM2
Genre
Shooter
Players
Single player, Split screen
About the game

Players assume the role of police officers in a first-person perspective and use a light gun to shoot criminals and advance through the game, with penalties for shooting civilians. The players could also shoot powerups that grants him a weapon or a life. The weapon is lost if the player is hit, but not if he shoots a civilian. Virtua Cop was notable for its use of polygonal graphics, which were subsequently used in both House of the Dead and Time Crisis, instead of the two dimensional sprites that were popular for previous games in the same genre. It is also notable for being one of the first games to allow the player to shoot through glass. Its name derived from this graphical style, which was previously used in Virtua Fighter, Virtua Striker and Virtua Racing.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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