More Virtua Cop 3 Goodness

[mtxblau]

Virtua Cop 3 Screenshots, etc.

Sega-AM2 is bringing another Virtua Cop game to the arcades.

Sega-AM2, the division of Sega behind the Virtua Fighter series, had Virtua Cop 3 on display at a recent press event in Japan. The basic mechanics of the game will be similar to previous games in the Virtua Cop series, but the development team has added a new skill called the ES-mode. This particular ability lets players produce a bullet-time-like effect that slows down projectiles, allowing them to shoot down bullets and other projectiles. However, there's an ES-mode meter that drains every time the skill is used, so players can't use it constantly throughout the game.

Virtua Cop 3 is being developed on the Xbox-powered Chihiro arcade board, and it's currently scheduled for release in Japanese arcades this April.

 

[racketboy]

The game looks mega sweet!

I checked out the movie and it gives me shivers.

Blows the previous 2 games away!

 

[Taelon]

Originally posted by MTXBlau@Jan. 20 2003, 12:24 pm

Virtua Cop 3 is being developed on the Xbox-powered Chihiro arcade board ...

HOLY MILKIN' COW... the XBox made it into an arcade board? Is nothing sacred to Microsoft anymore??!!!?

 

[mal]

It's a matter of economics.

[*]The hardware is already developed and relatively cheap.

[*]People already know how to program it.

[*]Home conversions are very cheap and easy to do.

 

[Taelon]

Don't be so damn rational, mal

This is MICROSOFT we're talking about!! They're gonna corner, then take over YET ANOTHER MARKET!!! I fear for the worst! AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

 

[mal]

I'm of the opinion that it's the game itself, rather than the hardware it runs on, that's important.

 

[Curtis]

It's not a new concept Taelon - STV == Saturn...Naomi == Dreamcast.

Microsoft isn't the end of the world*.

*Sponsored by MS corp. 2003

 

[mal]

There are several PSX and PS2 based arcade boards too.

 

[Taelon]

Yeah, yeah

I'm well aware of Naomi and Titan... as for PSX/PS2-based boards, fine with me....

BUT THIS IS MICROSOFT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!! *screams hysterically*