Narc (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Narc

NARC is a 3rd-person shooter that has the player tracking the distribution of the deadly new narcotic "Liquid Soul" across two different cities in Asia and the U.S.A. The player controls one of two characters…

40 11 March 2005

What Narc is

Narc is a shooter game developed by VIS Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Midway Games West. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

NARC is a 3rd-person shooter that has the player tracking the distribution of the deadly new narcotic "Liquid Soul" across two different cities in Asia and the U.S.A. The player controls one of two characters - Narcotics detective Jack Forezenski (voiced by Michael Madsen), or D.E.A. agent Marcus Hill (voiced by Bill Belamy). Both are led by Narcotics chief Joe Kowalski (voiced by Ron Pearlman), and the player switches between the two as the story unfolds. As an undercover cop, players are free to roam the streets and dispense justice at their discretion. Aside from storyline missions, players can encounter 12 types of randomized street crimes and stop them to boost their "badge rating"…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Narc holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 27 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Narc launched on 11 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

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