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Crisis Zone™
Time Crisis Crisis Zone
Information
Developer

Pacman-icon Namco

Publisher

Pacman-icon Namco

Platform

Arcade
PS2 MiniIcon

Arcade System

Namco System Super 23

Release Date(s)

Arcade:
November 1, 1999 (JP)
PlayStation 2:
September 17, 2004 (EU)
October 19, 2004 (NA)

Controllers

DualShock 2
Time Crisis 2 G-con 2 / Time Crisis 2 Guncon 2

Producer(s)

Takashi Sano (producer)

Composer(s)

Kazuhiro "Hige" Nakamura

Crisis Zone (クライシスゾーン Kuraishisu Zōn?) is a spin-off of the popular Time Crisis series.

Gameplay[]

In Crisis Zone, the player is part of the elite anti-terrorist trooper of the Special Tactical Force (S.T.F.), Claude McGarren. The game uses the same pedal system to reload and hide; however, the player uses a machine gun, a customized Steyr Mannlicher TMP with a laser sight and a magazine capacity of 40 rounds. Players take cover behind a portable ballistic shield that is strapped to the character's left arm. Crisis Zone is the first Time Crisis game to date to allow the player to select between three zones to play in any order. Upon completion of all three of them, the player can then play the final zone to beat the game.

Scoring[]

Unlike its predecessor Time Crisis II, all enemies have lifebars which denotes the amount of endurance they have before they are killed. Players are rewarded points based on shots on enemies, background objects and projectiles, score bonuses from continuous shots on enemies, and time bonus which appears after a level is completed.

Point bonus[1]
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17nd 18rd 19th 20th and after
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200

While headshots will give more points, it does not give 800 points if the kill shot on a foot soldier is a headshot. It also does not cap at 2,000 points for the headshot kill followed by 1,000 points for chase shots at the same area for a maximum total of 4,000 points per foot soldier (1 kill shot + 2 chase shots). Instead, the amount of points earned by each shot on foot soldiers increases progressively until combo is broken.

For shots on bosses, the scoring is as follows:

Infantry fighting vehicle[]

Scoring
Weapon Individual shot Destruction shot
Minigun 100 10000
Turret-mounted missile launcher 150 20000
Turret-mounted missile* N/A 3000**/300***
Hull-mounted machine gun 100 1000
Hull-mounted missile launcher**** 300**/100*** 40000** x 2/20000***
Turret-mounted missile**** N/A 3000**/100***
Turret gun mantlet 10 50000
Hull-mounted Gatling cannon 200**/100*** 30000

*Only fired during the second ACTION sequence.
**Arcade version.
***PlayStation 2 version.
****Only appears if players do not take too long to destroy the two turret-mounted missile launchers.

Large attack helicopter[]

Scoring
Individual shot Stun/Destruction shot
300*/100** 30000

*Arcade version.
**PlayStation 2 version.

Tiger, Edge, Derrick Lynch and Jared Hunter[]

Scoring
Boss Stun shot Kill shot
Tiger, Edge, Derrick Lynch 10000 10000/50000*
Jared Hunter 10000 10000

*Arcade version.

A-0940[]

Scoring
Weapon Individual shot Destruction shot
Machine gun 100 1100
Missile launcher 100 2100
Large missile 100 200
Small missile N/A 300
Small laser irradiator* 200 2000
Large laser irradiator** 100 10000
Gatling cannon 100 1100
Main laser cannon 100 50100

*Destroying all four of them causes the large laser irradiator to stop attacking.
**Destroying it causes any small laser irradiators to self-destruct.

Plot[]

Original Story Mode[]

Japanese version English version Remarks
ロンドン (こう) (がい) にオープンしたガーランド・スクウェア...そこはデパートや、ホテルに (ひろ) ()  そして () (ぎょう) ビルによって (こう) (せい) される  () () (がた) (ふく) (ごう) () (せつ) である。しかしその () (せつ) をデリック・リンチ (ひき) いる () () テロリスト (しゅう) (だん) 「URDA」が (せん) (きょ) した。 Garland Square recently opened on the outskirts of London. Within the complex, there are department stores, a hotel, a nice park, and an office building. A complete urban complex. However, the complex has been taken over by a terrorist group called the U.R.D.A led by Derrick Lynch. Opening narration (Arcade version)
Garland Square recently opened on the outskirts of London. Within the complex, there are department stores, a hotel, a park, and an office building. It's a complete urban complex. However, the complex has been taken over by a terrorist group called the U.R.D.A. led by Derrick Lynch.
~ Opening narration (PlayStation 2 version)

On August 2000,[2] Garland Electric Industries opens Garland Square in the heart of London. Full of modern amenities, it is considered the future of urban living. On 16 October 2000,[2] however, the entire complex is taken over by the U.R.D.A., a terrorist group.

With no demands or hostages, the Scotland Yard fears an unknown threat beyond imagination, realizing that the U.R.D.A. must be stopped and Derrick Lynch must not seek his hidden ambitions, whatever it may be. As such, they've ordered a covert international counterterrorism squad, the Special Tactics Force (S.T.F. for short), to liberate Garland Square. The S.T.F., in turn, assigns Squad 1, led by Claude McGarren (spelled as Croad MacGalain in the arcade version due to transliteration), to spearhead the effort.

The S.T.F. arrives at Garland Square and faces heavy resistance by the U.R.D.A. Squad 1 secures the complex (by neutralizing all terrorists and killing the special agents Tiger and Edge), but the S.T.F. starts to get puzzled as in spite of their hard work, there's no sign of Lynch. An Eyes Only Broadcast from S.T.F.'s intelligence officials reveals disturbing information about Lynch's goal of "over-working" an experimental atomic reactor 5 km (3 miles) below the complex. McGarren and Squad 1 engage in a tense time-sensitive conflict to nullify Lynch and to prevent the reactor from becoming unstable, ultimately saving London from a nuclear meltdown.

Special Story Mode[]

Six months later, Lynch's successor Jared Hunter seizes control of the newly opened Grassmarket District of Garland Square. With S.T.F. Director Commander Kessler's daughter Melissa as a hostage, Hunter demands that the surviving U.R.D.A. members be released from custody in return for Melissa's life.

McGarren and Squad 1 are sent to rescue her. They fight their way through Grassmarket Street, destroying an experimental stealth defense droid called the Meta Morphic A-0940 in the process. They then storm the Belforte Hotel, where Melissa is held on the rooftop swimming pool. There, they are confronted by Hunter and his airborne attack squad. Declaring his intent for revenge, Hunter engages and loses to Squad 1. He then attempts escape in a modified, heavily armed cruiser, but is killed when the cruiser is destroyed by McGarren's helicopter. McGarren and his men then take Melissa to safety, having ended the U.R.D.A.'s terror once and for all.

Versions[]

A PlayStation 2 port of the game was released in 2004 in the UK and the US with smoother polygon textures, higher difficulty, an additional mission taking place six months after the Crisis Zone arcade mode, and a special mode in both the original story and special story modes which the player is able to use extra weapons (flame thrower with 2.5 seconds of continuous fire in Drycreek Plaza, 4-round M202 FLASH missile launcher with homing ability in Garland Park, laser rifle with 2.5 seconds of continuous fire in Garland Technology Center, 60-round M134 Gatling gun in Grassmarket Street and 1-round M79 grenade launcher in Belforte Hotel) for a limited time.

The PlayStation 2 port is compatible with GunCon II lightgun, and is available with an unusual two-player cooperative gameplay mode named "two-gun mode" by allowing two players to play simultaneously on a single-player mode without the use of split-screen (this is later used in Razing Storm), or weapon switching system (similar to Time Crisis 3, with some changes) allowing the player to switch between a Steyr Mannlicher TMP machine gun, an 8-round Beretta 8045 Cougar handgun and a 6-round short barreled Remington 870 shotgun (fires 8 shots per shotgun shell), depending on settings. Unlike Time Crisis 3, Time Crisis 4 and Time Crisis 5, which only the handgun has unlimited ammunition, all weapons now have unlimited ammunition in Crisis Zone.

As with the PlayStation 2 version of Time Crisis II and Time Crisis 3, players can access the Crisis Mission exercise menu through prolonged gameplay. Getting at least 50% achievement in the Crisis Mission unlocks "Double Gun" mode (in that mode, enemies take approximately 1.5 times damage). The US version of the PlayStation 2 remake is called Time Crisis: Crisis Zone. Oddly, the PlayStation 2 remake of this game is never released in Japan.

Trivia[]

  • This is the last game which Kazuhiro Nakamura composed music for the Time Crisis series before being replaced by Takeshi Miura for Time Crisis 3, Time Crisis 4 and Razing Storm. He would later reprise his role as music composer for Time Crisis 5.

Gallery[]

Attract Mode (Arcade version)
Attract Mode (PlayStation 2 version)
Characters (Arcade version)
Characters (PlayStation 2 version)
Flyers


Credits[]

References[]

External Links []

Games
Main Series
Time Crisis  · Time Crisis: Project Titan  · Time Crisis II  · Time Crisis 3  · Time Crisis 4  · Time Crisis 5
Spin-Offs
Crisis Zone  · Razing Storm
Mobile games
Time Crisis Strike  · Time Crisis Elite  · Time Crisis 2nd Strike
Non-TC games
Cobra The Arcade
Characters
Protagonists
Alan Dunaway  · Alicia Winston  · Claude McGarren  · Evan Bernard  · Giorgio Bruno  · Keith Martin  · Luke O'Neil  · Marc Godart  · Richard Miller  · Robert Baxter  · Wesley Lambert  · William Rush
Supporting Characters
Casey  · Catherine Ricci  · Christy Ryan  · Commander Kessler  · Daniel Winston  · David Maxwell  · Elizabeth Conway  · Larry Garfield  · Marisa Soleil  · Melissa Kessler  · Rachel MacPherson  · Sarah Martin  · VSSE Trainees  · Xavier Serrano
Antagonists
Buff Bryant  · Derrick Lynch  · Edge  · Ernesto Diaz  · Frank Mathers  · Giorgio Zott  · Gregory Barrows  · Jack Mathers  · Jacob Kinisky  · Jake Hernandez  · Jared Hunter  · Kantaris  · Marcus Black  · Moz  · Paulo Guerra  · Randy Garrett  · Ricardo Blanco  · Robert Baxter  · Sherudo Garo  · Terrorist Leader  · Tiger  · Victor Zahn  · Web Spinner  · Wild Dog  · Wild Fang  · Zeus Bertrand
Miscellaneous
Input Devices
GunCon  · GunCon 2  · GunCon 3
Soundtracks
Time Crisis 3D Sound Ensemble  · Time Crisis Arcade Soundtrack  · Time Crisis II Arcade Soundtrack
Credits
Time Crisis  · Time Crisis: Project Titan  · Time Crisis II  · Crisis Zone  · Time Crisis 3  · Cobra The Arcade  · Time Crisis 4  · Razing Storm  · Deadstorm Pirates  · Time Crisis 5
Comics
Time Crisis
Organizations
Hamlin Battalion  · Kantaris Organization  · Lukano Liberation Army  · National Guard  · Neodyne Industries  · SCAR  · STF  · URDA  · VSSE  · Wild Dog Organization  · WOLF  · Zagorias Federation Army
Locations
Air Force Base  · Almada Penitentiary  · Astigos Island  · California  · Caruba  · Chateau de Luc  · Garland Square  · Girasol Factory  · Lixeira  · Lukano  · Mona Darta  · Sercian Republic  · Wyoming
Enemies
Civilian Militia  · Clawmen  · Drugged Soldier  · Elite Soldier  · Frogman  · Renegade Soldier
Weaponry
Deimos and Phobos  · HACS  · Helicopter  · Kraken  · Melee Weapon  · Piston Pod  · Quadruped Armored Vehicle  · Raptor  · Scorpion Boss  · Seekers  · Terror Bites  · XA-60-Ex
Player-usable weapons
Automatic Cannon  · Balero Cannon  · Flame Thrower  · Gatling Gun  · Grenade Launcher  · Handgun  · Heavy Machine Gun  · Laser Rifle  · Machine Gun  · Melee Weapon  · Mounted Machine Gun  · Rocket Launcher  · Shotgun  · Skewer  · Sniper Rifle  · VSSE agents Special Handgun
Equipment
Helicopter  · XSWAC-12
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