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Crime Patrol (video game)

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1184: 483:, achieved through systematically neutralizing threats which appear in various environments and scenarios. As a Rookie, the player character teams up with a somewhat boisterous policewoman, taking on burglars, armed robbers, and gang members. After getting promoted to Undercover, the player character gets a slightly overweight male partner and confronts drug smugglers and crime lords at a nightclub, a chop shop, and an airfield. Next, in 1196: 1172: 601:
dubbed the PC version "one of the best arcade conversions, ever" but derided the shallow and lowbrow nature of the game itself. They described the line of American Laser Games light gun games as "lineal descendants of fairground shooting galleries. Substitute the moving ducks and gats for an episode
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gave the 3DO version two out of five stars, criticizing the poor acting and overt similarity to previous American Laser Games offerings. Though he admitted that the game is decently fun with a 3DO light gun, and that the video contains several entertaining stunts, he concluded, "Personally, we'd
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to aim and shoot the villains. Reloading is done by moving the light gun outside of the screen and pressing the trigger; this is also achieved when using the mouse by directing the cursor to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and right-clicking. The player can reload at any time and an
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and a plastic pistol ... and you have grasped the essence of the thing." However, they acknowledged that this style of game has its appeal and concluded, "No intellectual challenges here, folks, but for the right kind of homo-couchpotatus,
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panned the Sega CD version, citing poor acting, corny dialogue, excessively grainy graphics, inaccurate controls when using a standard gamepad instead of a light gun, and generic light gun shooter gameplay. The same
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reviewer leveled all the same criticisms at the 3DO version except for the graphics, remarking that the 3DO version has "clean, sharp, digitized images". A reviewer for
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infinite number of times. The player has three lives at their disposal. There are four levels, not counting the
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is a satisfying piece of idle machismo." They gave it three out of five stars.
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The player character is employed in the police force and works his way up from
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was also slated for Christmas 1996, but was cancelled at the last minute.
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was reportedly in development but never released. A port for the
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to be the ninth most-popular arcade game at the time.
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Index

The Crime Patrol

Developer(s)
American Laser Games
Digital Leisure
Publisher(s)
NA
EU
Atari Games
Philips Media
NA
RU
1C Company
Platform(s)
Arcade
3DO Interactive Multiplayer
DVD
Macintosh
Microsoft Windows
MS-DOS
Philips CD-i
Sega CD
1993
NA
EU
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA

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