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Empire Interactive is publishing a light-gun game for the PS2. We've got details and impressions.
Light-gun games will probably always occur at a relative trickle, and things are probably much better for this. Still, an occasional release in that category is usually welcome, and, given the likes of Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James, greatly appreciated, when they turn out decently. Empire Interactive is doing its part in this regard by releasing Endgame, a PS2-exclusive light-gun shooter. It's looking sharp by all regards--it is done in full 3D, complete with destructible environments, and it is designed around Time Crisis-style duck-and-shoot mechanics, with which you can seldom go wrong. Included are also a host of clever touches, which could end up being quite endearing.
However superfluous stories might seem in these games, Endgame certainly has one. Its star is known simply as Jade, an American girl studying fashion design in the UK in the near future. Things go insane for her when her boyfriend Tyler phones one day, frantically telling her to get the heck out of her flat. Turns out that EuroDream soldiers--EuroDream being the VR company that Tyler works for--are on their way to the place, waving guns. Lo and behold, just as you see him being carted away on the videophone's screen, a bunch of guards bust through the door. Jade then grabs her gun, and you assume her role. Since she plays a whole bunch of old-style light gun games in her spare time, she knows the drill quite well.
What ensues is a gunfight in very cramped quarters, with all sorts of furniture and flatware getting blasted in the process. The game's actual mechanics are a lot like most modern gun games--you can duck or retreat behind whatever piece of cover you're near, load your gun, and emerge to shoot. Your gun is automatically reloaded whenever you duck, so doing this, along with learning the patterns at which your particular enemies fire, makes up the brunt of the gameplay. There's the shooting too, of course, though it barely requires explanation--you simply shoot at what you aim at onscreen. There's a whole lot to shoot in the environments we've seen, though, which, at the very least, provides a nice diversion from the point at hand. In the first flat stage, for instance, anything you see is fair game. You can shoot out cabinets and racks and watch their contents spill and shatter, or you can blast the shades off lamps or even shoot out entire lights, which, at this point, serve the purpose of subtly darkening the room. If the developers can make it more drastic in the final, then all the better.
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