Sentences with word «lightgun»

I have 2 sitting around gathering dust, and they are so much better for lightgun games than a move controller.

This battle against rogue robots recalls the on - rails lightgun shooters from the glory days of arcades, but takes the experience up a notch with the ability to warp around the map and dismantle enemies with your hands in close quarters skirmishes.

The House of the Dead name is synonymous with lightgun zombie killing.

Whilst the series was typically a platformer, Ape Escape (that is indeed its name and, no, it's not a remake, far from it in fact) is still all about catching monkeys, though this time around is an on - rails game that is a cuter and more colourful take on the once popular lightgun genre.

The House of the Dead: Overkill is part of a long running and extremely popular arcade lightgun series that has fans worldwide.

If you have been to an arcade, or more likely an arcade machine graveyard in a movie theater, you might have noticed that a lot of arcade machines are big cabinets with two guns for players to essentially play lightgun games with licensed properties.

I really like SS and will pull it out of the shelf once every few moons, when I'm about three dozen other PS2 games shy of suggesting you spend $ 50 for it, when the same price tag can get you a discounted «House of the Dead 2» and third - party lightgun for your Dreamcast.

It's not an action adventure for consoles and the PC, though: it's a four - player lightgun game that you play at the arcade.

I've been eagerly awaiting PlayStation VR's first real «lightgun adventure» game for a while, with classic titles like Time Crisis and House of the Dead at the very top of the list of games I want to see revived on the headset.

I mean, sure, we've had games like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood that scratch the itch a little, but I want a proper old - school lightgun title.

The lingering question over the game's switch to lightgun style action is if the change was made simply to dumb - down the experience.

Unless EA and Eurocom really offer some unique twists on the standard lightgun formula, which they have been promising, it's likely Extraction will be seen as an aberration rather than a game that genuinely adds to the Dead Space canon.

The inclusion of puzzles already distinguishes the game from the myriad other lightgun games available on the system, and Motion Plus could be used to great effect in many parts of the game if utilized well.

Sure it looks a bit better and the accuracy might be better but it's still just an onrails lightgun shooter.

Hailed as one of the silliest, raunchiest and yet still most shamelessly fun lightgun games in recent years (The pedigree definitely instills confidence.)

The most notable peripheral was the XG - 1 lightgun, which came bundled with the Atari XE Game System.

There had been lightgun controllers before, of course, but none that looked as utterly cool as the Zapper.

Dismayed by the recent lack of decent lightgun games, I managed to rig up three retro consoles inside a CRT arcade shell along with almost every major light gun shooter ever released.

As an avid lightgun fanatic, I'm excited to see how the motion control gels with a pure FPS - but it's odd that Sony have been on the defensive about the control scheme rather than playing to its strengths.

The MS had its own lightgun, the Light Phaser, and a selection of pretty good gun games.

Its core gameplay — being a free - roaming lightgun shooter, with smatterings of narrative, some strong set pieces and solid wave - based shooting — isn't hugely inspired.

Armed with the new PS VR Aim controller, Sony's new VR compatible lightgun, you'll explore alien landscapes, blasting anything that moves.

I have this same problem with shots not registering on an especially crappy PS2 lightgun game, Guncom 2.

What it is: A surprisingly adult reboot of Sega's cheesy lightgun shooter series.

Some trackball and lightgun games will not work, however, since this system does not have a port to attach them.

Extraction is all set to redefine whats expected from the lightgun shooter genre — it'll have to if EA hope to attract the same crowd that were scared witless by the original.

Microsoft just showed off Halo: Fireteam Raven, a lightgun shooter for the arcade that's set during the events of the first game in the series.

One of them even plays like a lightgun game.

Should they be bringing Hogan's Alley to the Wii U eShop it would need to be completely reworked and use the Wii remote to make up for its lightgun features.

Putting the PlayStation Move and the PlayStation 3 together, we've created a fast - paced, fun - filled action title that wouldn't be possible with traditional controls or even a lightgun.

- Nintendo shows off it's new controller: the Wii Zapper, a lightgun shell that the Wii Remote and Nunchuk fit into to form a gun for FPS games.

Getting back to violence, if you're a PlayStation 3 owner and you missed out on The House of the Dead: Overkill a couple years ago on the Wii, you have a second chance this week with The House of the Dead: Overkill — Extended Cut — a remastered version of the lightgun shooter, now with Move support.

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Without the lightgun there really is no gameplay.

If you are in PAL regions, you only get 2 - 3 games that were Light Gun compatible for the Dreamcast, so overall it might be cost prohibitive once you take the price of a lightgun into account.

And it would probably be quite a bit more fun if you had one of the nine lightguns that have been sold to PC users.

Oh sure, he's been in a lightgun esque game in the form of Yoshi's Safari, Mario + Rabbids has gun style weapons and the various anime adaptations sometimes have realistic firearms in them:

Previous reports indicate that the controller will act as a «lightgun» with a visible onscreen reticule and the player will be able to rotate, strafe and move with the subcontroller (i.e. nunchuck).

I hope the sequel will be released on US shores, the graphics on the first one were superb and I think it deserves a Wii port cause the lightgun controls are very innovative.

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Why they were chosen: It's no secret that lightgun games are usually light on content, especially since most of the good ones are ports of arcade titles designed for short bursts of gameplay.

Why it was chosen: If there's one thing the Wii was great for, it was lightgun games.