First 2526. Virtua Fighter Remix (SATURN)
27. Manos The Hands of Fate (iOS)
28. Virtua Fighter 2 (PS3)
29. Fighting Vipers (PS3)
30. Ikari Warriors (PS3)
31. Virtua Cop (SATURN)
32. Virtua Cop 2 (SATURN)Virtua Cop 2 is better than Virtua Cop in almost every way, and after playing Virtua Cop 2, it is even more apparent that the rail-shooting conventions employed throughout the House of the Dead series (and, indeed, all modern rail shooters) originated in the Virtua Cop series. Virtua Cop 2 plays very similarly to Virtua Cop, but the it features more varied and exciting environments, more varied enemies, more set-pieces, and branching pathways. (I explored all of them, BTW.) Power ups are more scarce, however, and the game has a few issues that, IMO, make Virtua Cop a better experience. First and foremost, the game whips around the rails very quickly at times, which makes targeting some enemies very difficult. (This wouldn't be such a big deal with a light gun, but I was playing with a controller...) Second, the game's bosses very easy, and the final boss is an absolute push-over. Finally, the game feels a bit more "generic" than Virtua Cop, which I think has a more distinct personality. (That is, Virtua Cop 2 feels like a very early version of modern rail shooters, and Virtua Cop feels like its own thing.) Accordingly, I think I slightly prefer the original, but I cannot deny that both games in the Virtua Cop series are a lot of fun. I would love to see modern HD versions of them for home consoles, and I hope I encounter one or the other again in an arcade someday.
. Hendricks and the lead are fighting the majority of the game so their whole friendship just feels like a sham and you hardly get any time with Taylor and his team before you start hunting them down. Really if they had you spend more time with Taylor's team then maybe I would have genuinely grew attached to the characters but as it stands I just didn't really care for any of them. I think the only scene that really drew any emotion out of me was the end of the first mission with the Grunts. That scene was disturbing yet great at the same time.
