Namco drops Time Crisis Strike onto iPhone app store

by Griffin McElroy { Feb 5th 2009 at 1:27AM }

We've harbored a secret love for the Time Crisis series since our initial exposure during the PS1 era, though we've always had our reservations about the use of the light gun peripheral. Why introduce such an unnecessary middleman into the equation? We want to end the lives of our seemingly cloned adversaries by simply laying our fingers upon them. We then want to proclaim to all passerbys, "These? These are the hands of the Angel of Death! Tremble, all, before our mighty digits!"

Said fantasy can now be realized in inappropriate social situations thanks to Namco, who dropped Time Crisis Strike onto the Apple App Store today. In addition to the "finger of death" mechanic mentioned above, players can also tilt the handheld in order to dodge the enemy's gigantic, molasses-slow bullets. For just $5.99 -- a pittance, really -- you can imbue your hand's extremities with devastating power.

Tags: app-store, iphone, namco, time-crisis-strike

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ph15h @ Feb 5th 2009 1:34AM

Oh my god... oh the hours... err. days... err. weeks... err. Months I spent playing this game in the arcades and on the PS1 then on the PC after my PS1 died

ph15h @ Feb 5th 2009 1:35AM

Now I can play it on my iPod! :P

JerJer @ Feb 5th 2009 1:47AM

no feedback light gun, no game :(

Mo @ Feb 5th 2009 2:50AM

And they said the iphones graphics are better than ps2's?

PSN: HinchyFC @ Feb 5th 2009 11:13AM

Who said that?

Brian @ Feb 5th 2009 10:20PM

Oh, John Carmack. What have you become...

""The iPhone, as a device, is in the same generation power-wise as the PS2 or Xbox," he said. "The graphics are a little lower but the RAM is a lot higher. …"

Rob Accomando @ Feb 5th 2009 6:57AM

Do they sell an iLightgun?

ScottG13 @ Feb 5th 2009 8:44AM

Should only be played in an arcade.

elmer @ Feb 5th 2009 10:03AM

First Katamri, now Time Crisis. Does anyone else notice Namco games that were obvious fits for BOTH Nintendo platforms never coming, but IPhone getting immediately and nobody blinks? I'm fully expecting a Soul Calibur fighting game on the IPhone next, no matter how retarded it may be. It will come complete with online wireless and be priced just $5.99. Available in 4 weeks depending on territory.

343 Guilty Fart @ Feb 5th 2009 1:03PM

ACTION!

ph15h @ Feb 6th 2009 12:09AM

I'm sad to say this game was boring. I bought it and wasted 6 bucks. The reloading is iffy because the angle people would play the game puts you always out or always hiding. No option to choose the precise angle to start the reload makes it fail. The tilt up or tilt down doesn't do much because your hand will be unnecessarily cramped either way since you have to quickly shift between the two. It gets really uncomfortable when you hold it downward when you play or playing while laying down.