Virtua Cop
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 2 · Sega Saturn · Arcade
- Release
- Arcade Sep 1994 Exact Arcade Oct 1994 Exact Arcade Nov 1994 Exact Sega Saturn Nov 15, 1995 Sega Saturn Nov 24, 1995 Sega Saturn Dec 08, 1995 PC (Microsoft Windows) Oct 25, 1996 PC (Microsoft Windows) Nov 11, 1996 PC (Microsoft Windows) 1997 Month only PlayStation 2 Aug 15, 2002 PlayStation 2 Q4 2002 Quarter only
- Credits
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Sega
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Sega AM2
- Board status
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About
Players assume the role of police officers in a first-person perspective and use a light gun to shoot criminals and advance through the game, with penalties for shooting civilians. The players could also shoot powerups that grants him a weapon or a life. The weapon is lost if the player is hit, but not if he shoots a civilian. Virtua Cop was notable for its use of polygonal graphics, which were subsequently used in both House of the Dead and Time Crisis, instead of the two dimensional sprites that were popular for previous games in the same genre. It is also notable for being one of the first games to allow the player to shoot through glass. Its name derived from this graphical style, which was previously used in Virtua Fighter, Virtua Striker and Virtua Racing.
