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Crisis Zone

Crisis Zone is a light gun arcade game released by Namco in 1999, a spin-off of the Time Crisis series. As a feature, it handles a large machine gun type controller instead of a handgun like the conventional…

69 29 March 1999

Crisis Zone is an arcade developed by Namco, released 29 March 1999 on Arcade.

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What Crisis Zone is

Crisis Zone is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1999. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In August 2000, Garland Square opened on the outskirts of London, with a large department store, office buildings, and a park next to each other. However, on October 16, two months after opening, it was occupied by the anti-British terrorist organization "URDA" led by Derrick Lynch. To suppress terrorism, the British government has dispatched a special anti-terrorism unit, the STF, to the area.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Crisis Zone holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Crisis Zone launched on 29 March 1999, within three weeks of RollerCoaster Tycoon, Metal Slug X, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 and Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: RollerCoaster Tycoon, Metal Slug X, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy.

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When did Crisis Zone come out?
Crisis Zone was released on 29 March 1999 for Arcade.

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