The Awesome Virtua Cop & Its Sequel
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Opening Remarks
02:47 Series Overview
06:27 Virtua Cop 1
15:20 Virtua Cop 2
21:35 Virtua Cop 3
22:19 Closing Remarks
24:04 Steelseries Spot
24:43 Amazingly Awesome Patrons - Hry
I don't think it was Time Crisis that killed this franchise, it's more likely that SEGA liked House Of The Dead a lot more
We're meeting G over there.
Time Crisis was a better arcade game. House Of the Deadm I think, they thaught, would translate better to console players. And I think it did. No one played Time Crisis for the story, or characters, just the duck ability and gun recoil.
Time Crisis 2 was my go to shooter arcade game with my older brother. Twas what we spent most of our quarters on. Not the greatest but fun moments.
@@thezambianprince3893 I saw a video of Johnny Nero Action Hero on CZcams, looks like a clone of either this game, Time Crisis, The House of the Dead or Vampire Night.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Man, anytime I went to an arcade and saw these lightgun shooting games I'd get so excited. They made me feel like I was in the game. They were so loud and flashy.
You guys are lucky to have grown up playing arcade and light gun I was born in 1996 and didn't play Virtua cop 2 until the start of 2001
Man I still feel exactly like this when I go to the local arcade, its just one of those things that never gets old for me..
@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 I mean I was born in '92, so I'm not that much older. But maybe because I was in California there were just more arcades? Hell, every ice rink and Chuck E Cheese had an arcade. Now, the arcades in the mall are just so lack luster.
I use to love the house of the dead 3 because you actually had a shotgun
When I walked into an arcade as a kid I quickly scanned the room to see if they had Area 51 or Terminator 2 The Arcade Game. T2 in particular took a ton of my money because one day I happened to catch an older kid fighting the T-1000 and I tried my hardest to make it there but that game was quite tough.
RELOAD - RELOAD - SHOOT OUTSIDE THE SCREEN!
I was one of the 13 people who bought the Saturn version - damn fine game. I miss lightguns so much :(
Me too (well, my dad bought it for me, was still a little kid). I know nobody cares but I just have an overwhelming urge to let anyone who reads this know that I did, in fact, have a Saturn and Virtua Cop.
@@geraldchurchill5576 i still do!!!
I always wanted a second lightgun, but back then it was all too expensive. It was either new lightgun or new game - the game always won out.
Such a great game, brought back a tonne of great memories. I also had a light gun, but mine had "cheats" on it. Had two 3-way switches, normal, unlimited/no reload and full auto, and a fire rate selector. That was abused many times.
@@SeanNoonan I was lucky enough to pick up a second light gun for cheap at some point and its a blast to play with 2 guns at the same time, I just wish I still had a good crt to use with them.
Going on a philosophical statement as to how impressive gaming in the 90s used to be, and then another fart reverb. You never fail to make me laugh, Gman.
He makes the sounds himself, courtesy of a beef vindaloo, sonny Jim.
Don't mean to toot my own horn *fart*.
How is that philosophical statement you absolute smooth brain?
@@LDW12887 What kind of insult is smooth brain?
@@esssss8415 he's a cringey incel wannabe
The glory days of '96 when you had Virtua Cop on the Saturn at home, and it was such a faithful port if you could beat it at home, you could also beat it at the arcade. I think Virtua Cop was the only arcade game I actually finished!
wow, two worlds are clashing together for me, wh40k and listening to an aussie review FPS games, life is good. Glad to see you here Guy.
The House of The Dead 2 on Dreamcast made feel the same but 4 years later, the GOOD OLD "New Millennium" vibes
Dude. I had that, House of the Dead 1 and two enforcers for Saturn... Thought I was the man!! Finishing games at an arcade is no mean feat. I spent so much on Metal Slug, Mortal Kombat and Point Blank but never finished any of them until I got console versions
I had these on Saturn with a light gun. The gun had a full auto mode and an auto reload mode so you could just hold the trigger down and shoot non stop. Such great times.
this and metal slug and time Crisis 3 needed lots of quarters
Fun Fact: The devs of Goldeneye 64 originally wanted it to be an on rails shooter in the style of Virtua Cop. They ended up changing it when they felt that moving around freely instead of being stuck on a single track made the gameplay much better
Thats why the game retained reloading.
The way the enemies react to being shot definitely felt like arcade lightgun animations
Funny enough, that's how we got Confidential Mission.
@@SolCresta3405 I love confidential mission and your username
@@gary9346 Thanks. It’s from one of the best shmups of all time.
Gman, mate stop making me feel like a mummy with these classics.
Man, your description of arcades back then was spot on. I sure miss walking into a new one and getting to survey the place to see what gems they have. And a quarter, which is chump change, can buy you a good time for a few minutes.
A quarter for a few minutes? Damn hookers were cheap back then...
Here in Australia it was never a few cents, it was always $1 or $2. Arcades never took off here as a phenomenon because of the expense.
@@Desi-qw9fc I was about to say this exact thing
.... 1 dollar or for some games 2 dollars was just plain fucking Robbery... you could spend 10 minutes in an arcade and come out 20 dollars poorer If you weren't careful
@@Desi-qw9fc In the 90's it was that much?
@@Desi-qw9fc here in the Midwest it was similar for most games. Maybe 50c for an older game etc, but for anything big/new that the arcade spent a lot on it was pricey for sure.
Something something still your mom is cheap for a good time - SHWACKED
I’d somehow got a copy of the pc version for Virtua Cop 2 and young me quickly realized it was indeed the same game in the arcades. I was so stoked!
It also led to the death of my old 3 button beige mouse when we figured out you could shoot infinite ammo by spamming LMB+RMB.
Remembers the games didn’t actually look like this, they ran on CRT screens. They look really different on modern tech.
You know, I have VGAs and normal CRTs now, played on them back then, and honestly prefer lack of scanlines. They were made on computer monitors anyway most of the time, so idk, even back then in the 90s scanlines weren't my favorite thing, tho that's mostly because I had to play on super crappy Magnavox crap-boxes, but other than the movement (which to me is the bigger difference, unless you have an OLED or something with serious pixel response) even the stuff that is different I wouldn't say is always better, in fact usually the opposite imo. But most of the time it's... Comparable, outside of animation. Maybe I'm crazy, I do like VGA CRT monitors tho lol
Indeed. The screen flashing, when you shoot, was less annoying, and there was a kind of motion-blur like effect when the camera pans around.
@@DisgruntledDoomer Johnny Nero Action Hero fun light gun game with elements from this game and Time Crisis plus cutscenes with comic book art-style and Dreamcast-looking graphics, both guns work and new CRT monitor, in a very-good condition.
Man Virtua Cop 2 was one of my fondest memories as a kid, thanks GMan!
Virtua Cop, Confidential Mission, House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Ninja Assault, DIE HARD Trilogy, Point Blank, Ghoul Panic and many more Lightgun Games are one and definatly THE REASON why I still have a CRT in my room.
I feel sorry for the kids that will never know how awesome arcades were.
Somewhat of a spiritual successor is Confidential Mission which came out on Dreamcast and Arcades. The gameplay is the same with the inclusion of minigames between scenes to interact and better boss fights. It also has that characteristic bad voice acting of the time which is a plus
Man, you're not kidding when you did your nostalgia intro. I grew up in a town without an arcade, they didn't even really exist in my country, and I didn't have a console, but I still distinctly remember Virtua Cop. Reason being is my local library (yeah remember libraries) had copies of the only video game magazine published in my country, and the first edition I ever saw and borrowed was the 1994 edition featuring Virtua Cop. Literally my introduction to video games. It wasn't even actually playing the game, but a bloody magazine.
Anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Pardon me if it’s too personal a question but I’m so curious. Where are you from? I’m American, but figured most countries/regions had gaming magazines or a type of arcade. Though to be fair my knowledge is mainly USA, Japan, Western Europe and like Germany and Brazil.
@@JoshuaJacobs83 I'm originally Dutch.
@@duffeknol Ah ok thank you. And i apologize for asking. It’s fascinating to hear how gaming was in the early days outside of Japan and the US. Thank you.
@@JoshuaJacobs83 All good, no worries. Yeah a few of my friends had Nintendos and such, but arcades were a thing I legit only knew from movies. Maybe our capital city had a few of them, but a small town where I grew up, no chance.
Well, I never had arcades too! (Only a very few big cities in India had them, and even then they had simple east asian knock offs rather than anything serious like Street Fighter) And no consoles either. They were simply too damn expensive.
I did try Virtua Cop on PC though, along with other great 90s titles like Midtown Madness and Hydro Thunder. Honestly, these polygon filled colorful games make me feel so childish and happy. It's a part of gaming that I feel is sorely missed today. Back when limited game mechanics and hardware forced devs to make the experience 'enjoyable', rather than 'tedious'.
I just recently tried out Splinter Cell (2002), and man, was it great to look at blocky character models but some solid gameplay.
Virtua Cop is a special series to me. It was my first Saturn game!
It's a bummer that NA never got the PS2 compilation.
One of the best rail shooters
I still think Ghost Squad tops all
Yes omg yes
@@Largentina. Best ones besides GS and VC are House of the Dead 2 and Time Crisis II.
I always consider Operation: Wolf to be the 'original' rail shooter. I remember the arcade cabinet was awesome because it had basically a full-sized Uzi light gun.
Operation Wolf doesn't seem to get no love these days. It was amazing at the time, and for a good few years every arcade had one.
Had it on DoS
@@dexocube I swear, people only remember that horrible NES port of the game. The arcade original was awesome!
I remember that shit.
@@SJReid82 The Master System version was a pretty good conversion for the time, it was really fun with the light gun. But the arcade was an experience all it's own.
You should give the Sega Ghost Squad games a shot. Spiritual successors with that tactical flavor.
I've got this on my wii and it's so much fun. Especially multiplayer.
And congrats on 500K glad I’m here along for the wild ride
Virtua Cop, point blank and time crisis 2 are 3 of my favorite arcade games ever. I also loved Area 51 because if you played good enough you could earn extra credits. When you grew up poor and your mom only gave you a dollar the free credits came in handy.
Do you remember Cabal? It was roller ball madness. Lol
The Saturn was massively underrated. Virtua Cop. Daytona. Guardian Heroes. Panzer Dragoon Saga. Dragonforce. Burning Rangers. Crimewave. Shiningforce. So many legendary games.
There’s more underrated games for the system also.
Great review, the final boss is more like Lex Luthor with the "no helmet power armor" design.
I would love to see a review of Silent Scope, probably the most difficult game to port to console or pc, because of the rifle peripheral.
I’m one of the thirteen people who actually had this on the Saturn. The only thing I remember being different from the PC version was the reloading seemed being slower.
That and aiming an FPS with a D-Pad was not fun.
I have only ever played Virtua Cop 1 on my cousin's sega saturn in the mid to lated 90s. We spent lots of time playing it during a sleepover and always found stage2/medium ironically harder than expert. Some 10 years later, he dug out the old saturn and we played it, except this time the light gun's controller adapter was missing. Also at the time I couldnt help notice Rage and Smarty's very similar likenesses to Chris and Leon from Resident Evil
Damn, I remember how much I played Virtua Cop 2 in my PC when I was kid back in the 90s. Thanks for the memories!
And it's a shame that there was no remastering and no rerelease of these games on Steam.
thank you for not using the blurry borders... and you put the ad at the end!
this is great
love your work dude, always fun and worth my time.
Classic shooter, I always loved how the bad guys flew all over the place when you shot them
It's impressive how vibrant and impactful the graphics were on old Time Crisis and Virtua Cop games. They had like 100x less the polygons we do today but everything still made sense and looked really cool.
I still remember for my 12th birthday my mom got me this bootleg video game compilation CD with Virtua Cop 1 and 2, Fatal Fury 3, Commandos 1 and 2, Earthworm Jim and Virtua Fighter 2...I remember playing this game on my pentium 4 xD I wish they would re-release this on steam :D
Gman has such a great edit style
Virtua cop 2 is straight up amazing. The set pieces, camera work and the feel of this game was just out of this world.
I just played Virtua Cop 2 yesterday and man, so many memories!
Me too l played it like 3 days ago
@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 Johnny Nero Action Hero, plays like Virtua Cop and Time Crisis but had ability to dual-wield two light-guns and had comic book art-style on cutscenes and bosses similar to Virtua Cop's, very fun game.
That guy piloting the tank in Virtua Cop 2 looked like the Doom Slayer.
These games vividly remind me of one the best points in my existence. I remember playing this with my uncle for hours on an old Windows 98 machine back in 1998. Good old days, thanks for reviewing these, i've been following your content for a while and taking your recommendations on games, but I never expected to see this here. Thanks a lot man
Bro I was born in 2001 and somehow have played this when I was a kid damn this bring so Many memories
The Saturn ports are excellent, there's also a curious barebones Dreamcast port of the second game. I like the remade graphics on the PS2, they remind me of Confidential Mission on Dreamcast, which itself is a very fun Virtua Cop-like.
When I younger, at my movie theatre arcade we had virtual cop 3. My dad showed me the game and I thought it was awesome. Right next the the Virtual cop 3 machine was Time crisis 4, those were some good times. Unfortunately the machine has moved and my friend and I were a little sad =( good times
Fun Fact: AM2 is still around making games! Also known for Outrun, both hang-ons, and both afterburner games, along with many other legendary arcade titles. They recently did Kantai Collection arcade, Daytona USA 3, and even more recently, a Fate:Grand Order arcade game.And in line with their pedigree, they are games made to suck up your quarters/game card! That and the games look amazing.
I remember playing lethal enforcers more than anything else back in the lovely nineties. Virtua Cop I remember, but never played. Did play Virtua Racing in the arcade and playing Virtua Racing deluxe on my 32x!(it’s ok to scream).
According to the background material in the PC manual for Virtua Cop 2, the handgun had "high-impact concussive rounds" that were somehow non-lethal. So technically, Gman, you didn't commit any criminal genocide.
So it's similar to rubber bullets.
There is still a risk on non-lethal bullets that can still kill by blunt trauma.
Awesome! I was obsessed with Virtua Cop and used to play it all the time with my dad on Saturn, ultimate father/son gaming.
It actually got me into shooting guns because one day my dad was like "how would you like to shoot a real gun?".
"By running at you with an axe"
Weird looking axe, I don't think you can cut much with that
One of the 13 reporting in, I still remember bashing away at Virtua Cop and Panzer Dragoon Zwei on my Saturn as a kid.
I miss a lot of the old-school style arcades. I loved playing Silent Scope, with a friend as a spotter.
I had these on the Saturn with the light gun and LOVED em. was great to see this video. u rock bro
You forgot about the very controversial title: Virtua Fleslight, it only saw limited release outside of Japan.
I just want to say that watching your footage of VC2 immediately took me back. I used to play it as a child in Cuba in my neighbor's computer. It was one of the few games I had access to, which meant that I got really good at it just through sheer repetition. Awesome video! Gonna go find a download for it and relive my childhood.
Man, Your videos always are a blast to watch. You always make My day! Especially durng these troubled times. :) That opening regarding Arcades... That really hit close to Me.
i've played the saturn version a lot as a kid and if i remember correctly there's a secret boss if you play all 3 levels in order. the special end boss is a attack helicopter
I love how at 16:40 there are people casually walking by the car chase shoot out.
I remember having Virtua Cop on the SEGA Saturn as a kid. My dad and I would play it like crazy. I miss those days......
20:50 I was expecting it to end with "to protect the life cycle"
Ah yes Virtua Cop, the predecessor of Gal Gun 😂
I remember playing Virtua Cop games and Time Crisis as a child. You don't need to worry anything in the world, ah those were the days
Wow, this video brought back some memories. If I remember correctly, almost every hit Namco created in the early to mid 90s for the arcades, were a direct response (read: copy) of Sega's arcade games. Sega created Virtua Cop, Namco creates Time Crisis, Sega creates Virtua Fighter, Namco creates Tekken, Sega creates Virtua Racing, Namco creates Ridge Racer, Sega creates Fighting Vipers, Namco creates Soul Blade later renamed, Soul Caliber. It was shameless how much Namco was running after Sega in those days. Even G-Loc/Afterburner could be seen as an influence for Ace Combat.
To be fair to Namco though, this practice was and still is, all the rage. SNK wouldn't be what it is today in the fighting scene if it wasn't for them and pretty much every major 3rd party trying to copy Capcom's Street Fighter 2. But if SNK didn't go that route, we wouldn't have King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown and Last Blade, some of the best fighting game series ever made.
Anyways, I remember Lethal Enforcers, it sucked. Tried it a couple of times with my older brother. He liked it, I hated it. I never liked the digitized art assets and it reminded me of Pit Fighter, which I also hated. Great video!
An interesting thing about Virtua Cop 3: it's the only light gun game where you can have one extra bullet in the chamber if you do a mid-reload
I still own my copy of Virtua Cop from back in the day for my PS2, still got my G-con2 with it's box as well. Great review man 👍
Here are some interesting facts that Gman left out:
-The magnum handgun is basically easy mode compared to the high capacity automatic or the wide hitbox shotgun. The Magnum has penetration which allows you to hit enemies even when behind cover. There is a good reason why you get the magnum prior to facing off with King, because that will make it much easier for you to hit the perps who are half covered behind crates which might not sound like a big deal if you are playing it on console or PC, but back in the arcade, the lightgun almost never hit where you point, so the magnum really helps with your aim.
If you somehow got the magnum in stage 3 (which I don't even know where you can find it), those computers can no longer save those perps as your shot will just go through the computer and take out the perp. And yes, this also applies to VC2. After I discovered the overpowered nature of the magnum, I basically ran the entire run of VC 2 with the magnum from beginning to end.
-In VC1, when you go through the game in order of level 1 -> 2 -> 3, you will see a helicopter fly by when you start at 2 and 3 in that order. When you defeat the final boss by following that level order, you can fight the helicopter as the true final boss of the game, which despite being the true final boss, is as much of a pushover as the final boss in VC2 (which if I remember from some sources, is the same person).
"Goes down like left over spaghetti bolognese-" Why you calling me out like that, Gman?
The cop cars at the end of virtua 1 look like R32 coupes, and the small black car looks like a Toyota Sera. Nice!
This game alongside several other arcade games gave so many fun moments for me during vacations to the Canary Islands. Family may remember the ice cream, the scorching sun or the palmtrees welcoming you… but for me it was the arcades with light gun games whenever the opportunity arised.
I only played Virtua Cop 2 as a kid on an old family computer. I have fond memories of it but I kinda forgot about it until I saw this video, so thank you for taking me on a nostalgia trip.
Man, me and my brother loved to play this game on the PC back when I was a kid, thanks for making this Gman.
I was a bartender at a burger joint that had a VC cabinet. Used to plY it everyday on break, eventually I memorized it so I could beat it on one quarter.
One day I found one of the cooks baggy of coke by it. That was a good break and rest of days work.
Virtua Cop and Time Crisis made sooo much money of me in the 90´s! When all you had at home was a snes these games felt like another world.
Also when discussing lightgun games, I feel like Confidential Mission and Silent Scope took a lot of inspiration from Virtua Cop.
While working car part delivery I discovered one of the small shops had a pristine and maintained Time Crisis 1 machine: had to strike up a convo with the owner and get em to let me take it for a round while they explained how hard it was to sus out the handgun feedback parts. Memorable 💜
omg this brings me back. when i was kindergarden, it was in the very first school i even went and we used computer alot for study and there were a time when we would get to have turn playing virtua cop. we were too small to get what was happening so teachers would hold out hand top of the mouse and help us aim. i remember when we all took turn to go to the end level and final boss was my turn and the teacher went out to take a call and i felt brave and messed up hours of progress. there were other games too like a puzzle one, a 3d snake game same as the nokia one but in 3d. but nothing compared to virtua cop we get so hyped when it was vitua cop day
7:11 Love the audio focus on the Wilhelm scream.
Before Lethal Enforcers Operation Wolf was the on rails shooter kids would rave about, i was more of a Cabal fan because i could at least clear one screen in that one.
Thats no truck... that's a moon!!!
Excellent thumbnail art on this one.
Man this brings me back to my childhood, my dad and I played vitrua cop 1 a ton on the Sega Saturn, along with area 51. The thing that I loved is that you could use the big ass orange gun to shoot at the screen just like at an arcade. An amazing feature that blew my 7 year old mind
I will always love how you add the Tourettes guy line in almost every video
Owned this on Saturn with the light gun. Some of the best times
Daytona USA oh my god. Anyone remember Sega Rally Championship??
This was the first PC game i ever saw in my life.
It was my school computer.
Man, I'd love to see a new Virtua Cop with the same 80's/90's vibes, palm trees, oceanside car chases and shit.
Damn, nice sound design on that intro.
LOL at that one spec ops dude who brought a hatchet to a gun fight.
I played a lot of virtua cop 2 as a kid, the sound bite of the civilian saying "SOMEBODY HELP ME!" lives rent free in my head to this day.
yoooo caught it at ten minutes, 972 views. always really cool to see videos about these older games, lol of them really deserve more attention!
I remember back in the 90's.. they had a special booth at EPCOT in florida (can't remember if the building was still communicore, or innoventions at the time), it was Virtua Racing, but they had full scale mockups of indy cars, on a gimbal, to kinda simulate movement.. It was stupid fun... i remember wishing i could spend all day playing with that.
Virtua Cop 3 was in my mall arcade. I played the everlasting shit out of it. I even made the high score until the machine was finally put to an end
I had Virtual Copy 1&2 on the Sega Saturn, along with the Predator light gun. Flippin' loved playing them! Good times.
I have Virtua Cop on Saturn. Still fun to this day. I need to find 2 some day.
Garage, ou la di da 😂 Great video, Gman. I miss playing these beauties at the arcade too ✌🏼
I remember the BCC cinemas at Strathpine shopping centre in Brisbane QLD had Daytona US in the lobby for almost 20 years!
It was there so long I played it as a teenager and then MY kids played on it!
I've never launched a CRT monitor out of a trebuchet, but I DID drop one out of a 3rd-floor window into an empty dumpster once. It was really satisfying. It 'sploded real good.
This game singlehandedly got me into shooters. I used to play both of these on my dad's computer religiously as a kid and watching this footage I still haven't forgotten where each badguy pops up, where the camera zooms in, and the hostages being in the line of fire. Big smile on my face watching this. 🥰
I believe Virtua Cop's level 2 on the construction site/quarry might be a direct reference to Arnold Schwarznegger's forgotten movie Raw Deal. Specially with the truck at 10:30
I love it that he covers light gun games! I've been addicted to them since the early 90s and now it's so easy to play basically all of them on PC with a Sinden.
Girth is more important than length, something I've been trying to convince my girlfriend 😂😂😂😂
LOVE that CRT bit, especially with the trebuchet.
Oh damn, I'm making a cup of tea to watch this one! Still got my saturn and light gun.. But no "TV". Sad times..
You can emulate just about everything you want these days.. but there's nothing quite like a lightgun game and the tactile nature of it all. A MAME cabinet with all the classics would be so worth the effort.
Time crisis 2 on ps2 with a guncon 1 in one hand and a guncon 2 in the other was my peak home lightgun experience.
Great video. Really funny comment about the anti aircraft gun vs the M-16 in the PC version 😂😂
Virtua Cop 2 and Mortal Kombat 4 came preloaded with the first PC my parents bought back in 2008
damn, those were some old ass games for a PC you bought in 2008 :D
Man the sequel to me was peak rail shooter game. It's also funny that the medium stage "Save the mayor" was harder than the expert stage "Railline shootout"
OH! And the nostalgia of clicking both mouse buttons at the same time practically giving you infinite ammo in VC2 where you can just reload with one click
Virtua Cop 2 was pretty much the first video game I ever played. I remember the coin-operated arcade machine and those light guns.
I'm so fucking happy GmanLives is covering it.