Time Crisis 4 hitting Japanese arcades

  • By Staff, GameSpot
  • Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:10 pm PT

Namco's new Time Crisis to run on new board; beta test starting this weekend.

Namco has announced it is currently developing Time Crisis 4 for arcades. The game is slated to launch in June in Japan, and it will begin beta testing this weekend in Tokyo.

To date, Namco's Time Crisis series have featured light-gun shooting action with the aid of a foot pedal, which can be pushed to avoid enemy shots and to reload ammo. In addition to the traditional system, Time Crisis 4 will feature larger levels, and players will be able to scroll the screen by pointing the gun at arrows located on the sides of the screen.

Time Crisis 4 will also run on Namco's new arcade board, called the System Super 256. The board will support richer graphics, allowing more enemies to be displayed on the screen at once. Time Crisis 4's cabinet also features a speaker dedicated to character voices, which will offer the player tips throughout the game.

38 Comments

  • talool1

    Posted Apr 12, 2007 4:58 am PT

    I gonna get a PS3 if it needed to play TC4
    i have all the series:TC2 TC3 TC:CZ and will get the TC4

  • gamedude_95

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 3:21 pm PT

    TC4 is good but I'm not gonna get a ps3 to play it ill play at the arcades too

  • Nipponjin

    Posted Mar 26, 2007 5:48 pm PT

    Oh yeah baby only on PS3!

  • StarFoxCOM

    Posted Mar 26, 2007 4:56 pm PT

    Oh Awww

  • acepilotmra

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 8:51 am PT

    I got a TC4 tournament or something coming to one of the malls near me. I don't know when the arcade is getting it. But it looks like they will.

  • ninjabeaver1

    Posted Jan 29, 2006 6:54 pm PT

    @Attitude
    You mean arcade ports died on Consoles ^_-

    Anyways it seems to take that multi viewing thing
    from Time Crisis: Project Titan.
    It actually felt awkward in TCT.
    Hopefully it would be improved in TC4.

  • andrew123100

    Posted Jan 25, 2006 4:37 am PT

    i want it to come to england lets hope its as good as 3rd one

  • Attitude2000

    Posted Jan 24, 2006 10:24 am PT

    The arcade pretty much died with the release of the PlayStation.

  • bizsumpark182

    Posted Jan 24, 2006 5:53 am PT

    I would love to see TC4 come to America. I have a TC3 machine near me where I live and I put up to $5 into that machine every weekend.

  • ewjim

    Posted Jan 24, 2006 5:16 am PT

    No comments...

  • Jshaw71

    Posted Jan 24, 2006 2:44 am PT

    sounds cool, TC 3 was a great game, well see what it has to offer , sopeaking of light gun ganes, has anyone heard anything on house of the dead 4? :: going to check gamespots coverage of TC 4 ::

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 11:36 pm PT

    Yay!

  • Viquist

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 8:42 pm PT

    Sounds Like They Need To Bring This To The REV

  • helluvagood

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 8:22 pm PT

    OMMGGMGMGMG TIME CRISIS!!!

  • forever_blank

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 6:59 pm PT

    lol... Time Crisis... Been a while since I thought those graphics were good...

  • o_sausage

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 6:24 pm PT

    America??????????

  • dky4u2021

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 6:02 pm PT

    I myself live and japan and will be the first to say that the arcades are huge here, they play some games in ways that i would have never thought to be done. Cant wait to see the time Crisis four im sure it will be just as fun as the others.

  • MegaManFan1010

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 5:23 pm PT

    Sounds sweet.

  • Orasion_Seiz

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 5:19 pm PT

    thats very nice

  • Father_Time89

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 5:14 pm PT

    yaya another time crisis, I wish it'd come to the states though.

  • lquidsnake133

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 5:12 pm PT

    Light gun games are always better at arcades even if you have friends over all the time.Maybe because of replay value.

  • seany-boy

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:47 pm PT

    If anything, the game is going to be harder then previous Time Crisis games.

  • XlpranksterlX

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:45 pm PT

    i would want to play it but as Gamespot knows, arcades are dead.

  • andrewtyen

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:37 pm PT

    that's awesome

  • newmarcom

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:24 pm PT

    I hope the "Time" in Time Crisis plays more into this latest version. I love that concept in the original Time Crisis where if the time ran out, the game was over. It made me have that sense of urgency to rescue the hostage before it was too late. Time Crisis 2 and 3 lost some of that charm due to the reseting time in each scene.

  • Ortadragoon

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:13 pm PT

    Xanog, this game isn't coming the United States. I can almost guarentee that. There is a 1% chance of that happening. Arcades are dead in the US. Sans DDR, but even that is decreasing in popularity, thanks to home consoles.

    You can look forward to a possible Playstation 3 or Playstation 2 release, though.

  • Donkeljohn Site moderator

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 4:04 pm PT

    Nth! . . . oh, I mean. . . At least arcades are still big somewhere. . .

  • slipslayer_666

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:49 pm PT

    i really dont think they have arcades in america any more, last time i was in a real arcade was in the ninties. The ones by me got closed down because idiots were acting like jerks, making bets, fighting the whole nine yards. Japan is really where the arcade scene is.

  • jcm72

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:49 pm PT

    Beaches and bowling alleys...

  • frankeyser

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:46 pm PT

    i have not been to a good arcade in about ten years.... does such a thing still exist in america?

  • psychic_zebra

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:43 pm PT

    I thought you had to let go of the pedal to hide from the bullets and stuff. o_0

    Anyway, Time Crisis is cool, but the arrow-scrolling doesn't sound like such a good idea. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

  • sniper_99

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    hope it'll come to North America

  • Xanog1

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:35 pm PT

    Yay, I can't wait for the US release.

    Arcades are starting to return to glory again!

  • climbfall

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:31 pm PT

    ... because there the ones that produce/make/develop the game.
    And it isn't always the case, Konami and Capcom have been known to release Japanese Produced games (Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill to name a few) in other countries first.
    Also i thinkin arcades are bigger in japan then anywhere else arn't they?

  • olivua_m

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:30 pm PT

    That screen scrolling feature sounds like it will make the game slower

  • xxPantherxx

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:26 pm PT

    I hope it comes to american arcades... why does Japan have to have everything first

  • Fizzman

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:25 pm PT

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  • firstfist

    Posted Jan 23, 2006 3:19 pm PT

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