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 Posted: Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 19:35 Post subject: NARC (c) Midway |
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Official web page: http://www.zoodigitalpublishing.com/product-item.php?id=349
Publisher: Zoo Digital Publishing
Developer: Midway
Genre: 3rd person action shooter
Release date: Released
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NARC is a third-person action shooter set against a stylized modern-day backdrop of the War on Drugs. Playing as dual characters, Jack Forzenski and Marcus Hill, in the elite NARC squad, players must rid the world of the powerful international K.R.A.K. drug cartel. Using deadly firepower and police authority players will make the choice to play it straight or use and abuse narcotics to get that extra edge and quick cash. Players decide whether to play as a good or bad cop as they face the mean streets and criminal underworld that rules it. You decide how you want to accomplish your missions. Pursue illegal deals with drug dealers or be the law abiding NARC cop. It’s up to you.
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The 2005 home console update of the 1988 arcade hit of the same title was also developed and published by Midway Games for the Xbox and PS2. A planned Nintendo GameCube version was later cancelled. Although the update was slated to be a straight remake of the story from the arcade game, the version that was eventually released featured a totally new story. This made the game so different from the arcade version of NARC that it could be considered a completely different game with no relation to the original. The update casts the player as narcotics officer Jack Forzenski & DEA agent Marcus Hill, former partners reunited who are instructed to investigate a new drug on the streets called liquid soul.
Drugs available in NARC include Speed, marijuana, Ecstasy, Quaaludes, Acid, and Crack. One of the most controversial aspects of the game is that after arresting dealers and confiscating their stock, the player can either take the confiscated items to the evidence room, or keep them for future use. This confers benefits such as improved weapons accuracy.
Dealing drugs for financial benefit is also possible. However, as in real life, drug use leads to consequences such as addiction, blackouts, and loss of health and reputation points. The integration of drug use by the protagonist is in complete contrast to the anti-drug message of the original arcade game. The game's source code (engine) dates back to the three-year-old State of Emergency[2].
Several well-known stars are involved with the voice acting in NARC, including Michael Madsen, Bill Bellamy, and Ron Perlman.
The 2005 update of NARC was rated #9 on Screwattack's Top 10 Worst 2D to 3D games, with Screwattack saying,"While you're pretty much supposed to shoot everything, this time around, it just seems really dull and monotonous".
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JBeckman
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Tried it when it became available for download, it's a quickly ported PS2 title and thus it'll look pretty bad not any real options either aside from resolution (Limited to max 1440x900 it seems.)
Game also uses a ton of cutscenes and those are pre-rendered BIK videos that looks like they're running in a 320x200 resolution so you can imagine how that looked when stretched to a standard resolution in 2008 (1600+ / Though 1280x1024 is still popular.)
Only played briefly before uninstalling the game and deleting the image, what I played was a quick shooter event with some of the most extreme auto-aiming ever just point your weapon in the direction the enemy is and you'll lock on to the target.
Might have been decent on the PS2 when it was initially released. (2005)
(It's also available on the XBox but that doesn't change anything.)
Review from IGN (PS2 and XBox versions.)
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/598/598823p1.html
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/599/599193p1.html
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 20:20 Post subject: |
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Is anyone else getting spinning camera problem? I started a new game and the camera spins like crazy.
Update:
The game can't handle multiple inputs it seems. If I disconnect my xbox 360 controller, it stops spinning. Plug it in and it spins like mad. But then I realize how ugly the graphics were (spinning camera made it hard to judge) and uninstalled it.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 21:11 Post subject: |
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works fine here don't know whats the bitching is about , it a nice 2005 shooter
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| Spiderman wrote: | | it a nice 2005 shooter |
You've got issues, mate.
Just tried it (it was a tiny download, so I figured I'd give it a try) and wow it's bad. It's worse than bad, it's horrible. Even for 2005, the graphics are horrendous. The control system is sluggish as all hell, the sound effects are hideous, the voices piss-poor and the "story" is about as interesting as watching 2hrs of root-canal work.
Every other word is "fuck" and it's a retarded "gangsta" game, which pretty much makes it instant lose in my eyes anyway.
Uninstalled, deleted, forgotten.
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