Price: Unavailable, game never sold in US or UKīuilding off of what Kojima had started in Snatcher, I feel that Policenauts is an attempt to revise the mistakes and setbacks of that original attempt and create a spiritual successor that flows more like a game. Released: 1994-1996 (depending on platform, Japan Only) Platform: PC-9821, 3DO, Playstation, Saturn (Japan Only) Hopefully with the help of my chipped Saturn and trusty Virtua Cop light gun I can finally play Policenauts as intended on original hardware. I was able to complete the game thanks to emulation, but it never felt right with a keyboard, mouse, and save states.
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Upon beating the highway scene at the end of Act 2, I was then confronted with a save bug that I never could figure out how to overcome.
I started a video capture of the PS1 version, but struggled greatly with the shooting sequences. First off, it allows me to play (and hopefully finish) the game on an actual console.
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As of yesterday you can now get an English translation patch for the Saturn version and get to play the most definitive version of this great title.įred’s Take: This news is huge to me. On the other hand, the Saturn version is a bit more of a remake than a port with better graphics and even light gun support. There was a fan translation of the version on the original Playstation in 2009, but it has some compatibility issues that can arise and the shooting sequences don’t support light guns, making them brutal. This is significant because the Hideo Kojima title was never released outside of Japan and never officially translated to English. You can read a review on it, listen to a game club, and even hear a choice song from the soundtrack in one of our music episodes. We love Policenauts here at Gaming History 101. There you will also find the original Playstation translation as well, but read on to discover why you may want to go with the Saturn. The player must rapidly shoot enemies moving within a one-screen area viewed from a first-person perspective, reloading the gun manually and trying to eliminate the enemy before Jonathan's health bar is depleted.A fan translation of the Sega Saturn version of Policenauts has been released. Conversations usually include a selection of topics.Īction sequences are similar to those of Snatcher, but are more numerous and varied. There are a few puzzles in the game, but most of the time the story is advanced by visiting various locations, examining objects, and talking to characters.
The player interacts with the environment in a point-and-click fashion: positioning a cursor over an object allows the player character to examine it or perform other context-dependent actions. Policenauts is a Japanese-style adventure with action elements, similar in many ways to Snatcher. Determined to fulfill her final request, Jonathan prepares to re-visit Beyond Coast. When she leaves the office, her car explodes, and she dies. She has re-married during Jonathan's prolonged absence, and asks him to find her missing husband. One day, his ex-wife unexpectedly pays him a visit. Trying to forget his past, Jonathan opens an investigation agency on Earth. He still looks like a young man, but in reality he is fifty-five years old. Twenty-five years later, he is miraculously discovered in his life pod, alive. He was sucked into space and presumed dead. During a routine patrol on Beyond Coast, something happened to Jonathan's space suit. Three years later the founders of the colony felt it needed to be protected, and chose five best policemen from Earth to do that: Gates Becker from Scotland Yard, the Japanese Sadaoki Tokugawa, Salvatore Toscanini from New York, and two policemen from Los Angeles: Jonathan Ingram and his best friend Ed Brown. 5 /5In the year 2010 mankind has built its first space colony, Beyond Coast.
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