Crapshoot: The wave of crime, crime is contrary to taste
From 2010 to 2014 Richard Corbett Wrote Crapshoot, a column about craps to make random and obscure games reappear. This week, remember when the terrorists gave the world to submission?
“Crime Wave” is a game where you get bonus points through drug use, but it is not certain whether they will directly enter the designer’s blood. It’s just…wow.At every moment, it’s impossible to tell whether this is a deliberate comedy or just keep getting so lucky that it is so bad Astonishing. Maybe it’s both. Take a pillow and put it on your computer desk, lest it inevitably hurt your chin when it falls, because this week, we are studying the stupidity of crime.
Oh, visit. This is a strange company, really. On the one hand, it brings the Tex Murphy game to the world. If you like golf, it is the famous Links series.On the other hand (rotted, maggot-infested hands) is Absolutely everything else.
With endless optimism and a loose understanding of the intellectual property rights of others, it desperately wants to create a film-style experience. It managed to load the video into a floppy disk. It invented RealSound, which enables PC speakers to play the correct audio, and it is designed to make fart noises of various pitches.
Time and time again, its game is absolutely terrible. In a lively manner. Surprisingly, we didn’t see more here, but don’t worry-there are a few on the hot list, including the amazing Amazon: Guardians of Eden.
Ah, they don’t let them do that anymore…
As a pure game, Crime Wave is not very interesting. This is a shameless plagiarism of the game called NARC, even too lazy to hide it. You walk from the left to the right of the screen and shoot countless same criminals to escape the world of crime. Sometimes you will fire bullets. Sometimes you will launch a rocket. I won’t talk about it too much, because it’s really boring. Dull, dull, dull.
The packaging though… the packaging is 24 carats from beginning to end. Here, a sample. You play as “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe. this It’s “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe.
Put on those glasses, this must be a game in the 90s. it is! It’s a bit strange that although it was released in 1990, its background is not completely remote in 1995. At this time, Access hinted that the United States would be completely occupied by terrorists. The only cure was to have a slightly chunky guy catch it. Live in the nearest rocket launcher and kill them yourself.
But wait. For most games, this is stupid enough, but this is a wave of crime. Although “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe (Lucas McCabe) never wears his traditional villain jacket during intermission briefings, in fact, he spends most of his time in the game practicing him Role-playing of Elvis Presley. If he saved you, thank him. thank you very much.
This probably means that he is collecting these as extra lives.
Will it become more stupid? it can! Because of the way the sprite system works, your best choice for most of the game is not to stride proudly into danger, but to squat and hobble around. I’m not kidding. The manual tells you that “crouching is the most effective way to maneuver (sic) and survive.”
If you want to know how bad this looks in practice…
But that was a wave of crime! The adventures of Super Duck Walk Elvis, each missile killed 1 million terrorists with a rocket launcher and collected drugs from all of Colombia, but the enemy can only keep his face straight, because, as we will introduce, they are Even stupid.
Not as stupid as the avoid button [TAB], Admittedly, but only because that is impossible.
Let us take a step back. Why does all this madness happen? With the takeover of the entire world of crime, it is clear that the President’s daughter Brittany was kidnapped by a terrorist organization called MOB, and “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe is the only person with the shadow of power. Rescue her.
It’s a bit strange that the entire game is watching his rampage at their headquarters, on a huge screen that can track him through the city. He mainly uses mental power to repay favors, or at least a convenient tendency to break into places where they don’t want him accurately.
Between missions…well, I guess, the mobs complained a lot about it, and the game shrugged and occasionally brought Brittany to the most dazzling fan service ever. here. one example. This is the computer of “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe, who is looking for a criminal he needs to defeat. Doesn’t it seem reasonable enough? At the top, very, Very ‘After 90, it’s okay.
Look? There is nothing to be ashamed of. However, this is his official “Super Crime Fighter” file on Brittany, the daughter of the President of the United States. repeat. The daughter of the President of the United States.
But, oh, the situation got worse. According to the classic script of a girl in distress, Brittany’s kidnappers inevitably tied her up. Can you spot the minor flaws in their eeeevil bondage plan?
Give some credit to the mob, at least they didn’t know that “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe carved a bloody blockbuster on their man-although apparently they Yes I don’t know that their boss is secretly pretending to be the crime planner “King Pin”. Yes, there is space. Needles.
Fortunately, as a world-class criminal organization, MOB has no shortage of special agents to do these dirty work. Why, on the first street alone, Lucas McCabe, the “super crime fighter”, had to fight about half a million street thugs in a super crime fight. When they were clearly not his opponents, MOB HQ just smiled and turned to Plan B-dispatching the most terrifying predator in the urban jungle:
OK. Look, this may not be as stupid as it seems! In the 90s, ninjas were the ultimate weapon. What do you want to die, you sent a ninja. And thugs?They sent ninjas level 2.
If they think that the greatest fighting force of all time is completely overrated by the movie as just a grunt, imagine they are saving the bad guys who tortured “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe at level 3. Why would they…
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excuse me. I…I think I need some time. Come back in a while, okay.
Damn it doesn’t help fundamental.
Anyway, where am I? Oh yes. In the next few levels, “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe (Lucas McCabe) can never compare with the sheer shock of seeing Crack Mack, but “Crime Wave” gave it a good opportunity . For example, MOB hides supplies of drugs and money in secret rooms behind easy-to-dodge laser beams, and is relatively sane at first. At least, considering that this sentence contains the word “laser beam”.
At this point, Crime Wave just raised his hand to announce that even though it Don’t care anymore. The terrorists initially kidnapped Brittany as part of a larger plan, but it was almost irrelevant throughout the process, and then she only existed for it. “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe tracked her to the mansion in Jinping, also known as “obviously where she is”, and fought with her captives.
This is a side-scrolling game from the 90s, and it’s no surprise that King Pin has a robot suit. In those ten years, every villain did it. It was accompanied by spotless white suits and the last cigar they were allowed to smoke.
I will only embed the last level because… well, you will see. Apart from the robot, my personal favorite moment was when King Pin stubbornly refused to tell the “super crime fighter” Lucas McCabe where Brittany was. In any case, it took eight seconds to find her. She is in the basement. Where else will she be? Sorry if this counts as spoiler. In any case, you may want to watch the topless beach shooting of the completed game, “Super Crime Fighter” Lucas McCabe finally won his hero reward.
Or it is not.
sigh. Right to use. I will say you tried, but it is obviously a lie. In any case, before Tex Murphy became a big name, this was almost what you got outside of their golf game-the disguise of the movie, wrapped in shit.
It’s easy, its most cunning moment is Steal its main music. As easy as YouTube demonstrates now, it only takes a few seconds A note by Pink FloydOf course, this is just “a piece of paper” for Access.For example, it will never dream of openly pinching Blade Runner poster for Average street box, Any more than A large electronics company The theme music that would have been pinched Robocop on Gameboy One of the most notorious earworms in the past ten years of creation. Cough.
Oh, the 90s. Those sweet days when everything seems possible, just because no one noticed. How long have they looked now. How long, how tasteless. shudder.