Starting life as a
PC-9821
game,
Policenauts is at its
core a digital comic with action
scenes
interspersed.
Playing
Policenauts is just
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like most of the
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other games in this
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feature.
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trols are kept simple while great artwork is shown across the top of the screen but with this
game, there is extensive voice acting available (in Japanese of course).
first full functioning space colony. Normal day.
The characters in Policenauts have similarities to
characters in other mediums. For instance, Jonathon and
his partner, Ed Brown, greatly resemble Riggs and
Murtaugh– the leads of the Lethal Weapon franchise of
movies.
The level of deepness infused into this game is amazing.
Hideo Kojima and his team have left nearly no stone that
could be investigated or turned
over, without an
explanation and a damn good one at that.
For more on this aspect of Policenauts, check out our interview
with Artemio Urbina
starting
on
page
6.
Playing Policenauts will require a
lot of reading and possibly writing
down terms you need to research
later. This is not a rush game that
you will finish in less than an
hour
after
starting.
There was a North American ver- North American gamers
sion planned for release but it got this close to an
official English Version.
never materialized due to problems with the voice tracks and Full Motion Video scenes.
A mockup box was produced for the Sega Saturn version.
There have been rumors of Policenauts getting translated
for years but nothing has come out officially from
Konami on the subject. It is probably a safe bet that if
there is an English voice tra