The original Virtua Cop caused quite a storm when it was first released in arcades, as it was one of the first rail-shooters to feature proper polygonal 3d graphics, as opposed to the 2d sprites and backgrounds of its forebears. A legion of imitators/innovators would follow, most notably the Time Crisis and House of the Dead games. Virtua Cop 2 offered up very much the same as its predecessor, albeit with marginally improved graphics and animation. The gameplay will be instantly familiar to anyone who's ever played a rail-shooter, requiring the player to pick off bad guys as they appear from behind cover, at which point they fall to the ground and disappear, ...  Read the complete review

Arcades - what are they good for? A question you might well ask, given the fact that consoles are so popular. But arcades do indeed serve a useful purpose. Arcades let gamers get a quick gaming fix on games that are often at the cutting edge of technology. Take Ridge Racer - this one track wonder came out a good ten years or so back and blew away the opposition with its super smooth graphics, turbo-charged gameplay, and was one of the biggest arcade money spinners around, and if you could rope another person into racing against you, it was even better. The problem is that there are two types of arcade games - those that give the gamer something to get their teeth into, .  Read the complete review

I recently purchased Virtua Cop - Elite Edition for my son who is 7, for use with the G-Con 2 light gun. The age rating for this game is 16+ but after playing the game im sure you would agree that this was set far too high. The good thing about the elite edition is that you get Virtua cop 1 & 2 on the same disc. Training mode. just incase you have difficulty in the game mode, here you can get some shooting practise. Options. Here you can change various settings, there are a total of 13 options in which to play the game, Difficulty/gun loosness/lives 1-9/continues free play 0-9/ audio/controller settings/calibrate gun/sights on-off/gun ...  Read the complete review