Let us not trouble ourselves with concerns of Crime Patrol 1, I'm reasonably confident I will get to it eventually.
How do you know when you are getting old? When you can hold an adult conversation with someone who doesn't remember Miami Vice, the original series, being on Television... That for me has been a big pointer.
In '87 I loved Miami Vice. The cars, the action, the jiggly boobies in the introduction. Of cause it eventually became uncool - sneers and laughter and nudges would ensue if you were to mention it. Not in 2006 however - Michael Mann (God bless him) is making Miami Vice cool once again and by association - so am I!
Why am I wittering on about this? Crime Patrol 2 is the A-Team meets Miami Vice.
It's traditional mid-eighties drugs knee-jerk of a game. I'm either way too cool or way too much of a geek for drugs but it's something I've never really encountered but even to a prude like me, shooting Marijuana dealers seems, I don't know, extreme?
Still that's what Crime Patrol 2 has you doing. In a light gun capacity only of cause.
This being an American Laser games game it is a conversion from the arcade original, even finding it's way onto the Microsoft Xbox as well as obviously the 3DO.
The scenes are set in Sierra County, Chicago, the American / South American Border, and then into South America are all well delivered.
The sets are real world, the women pretty (and scantly dressed) and the explosions are Hollywood huge and naturally involve expensive looking boats. The acting is terrible but all part of the love and the cliches are Texas sized. Gun crazy cops and drugs dealers called 'Lopez'.
If you didn't like Mad Dog 1 and 2, Space Pirates, Who shot Johnny Rock and 99% of all American Laser Game games, then you'll hate this, alternatively ... well, obviously, you will love it. That's what alternatively means.
Very rare too.
3DO Kid.
Finally a game that combines Guns with women wearing small amounts of clothing. Throw in a little humor and you have the ultimate game. Actually you can forget the guns....and the humor.
Who Shot Johnny rock was great. I like to play the SegaCD version on my xbox but without a gun it sucks.