Love the vibe of this game, with its chunky early 2000s Sega character models, questionable voice acting, and silly Bond-rip off story. The rail shooting is fun and challenging, while I didn't have a light gun to get the real experience, it played well enough with a controller. The shooting is satisfying, enemies sort of flail back when getting shot giving each successful shot a really satisfying feel. It also has these blend of quick-time event / minigames where you have to do a spy action like block poison vents or shoot a grappling hook, these are a nice mix-up from the main loop and have fun win-states and lose-states attached to each, with slight branching path variations depending on whether you succeed or fail.
The game is comprised of three missions. The first mission is excellent, chasing this very wide mafioso kingpin sort of character through a museum(?) - the lighting effects are really nice and while there isn't much in terms of character variation, the bosses make up for it with very silly and over the top style. I love the cut-scenes here too, they're so hokey but have such a distinct style that I was left wanting more. The second mission is a bit of a miss, with a chase on a train through a snowy locale, but there's still fun to be had with your hokey eye-patched villain and our superspy disguised as a chef complete with a very tall hat. The third and final mission is at a sort of industrial warehouse base, while the art style is a bit generic, it makes up for it with some excellent level design and a really fun transformation of our eye-patched big bad into a sort of Lawnmower Man-esque cyber man.
Overall the game is really brief at around 45 minutes and while it can be a bit challenging to complete, especially with a controller, still left me wanting more. A fun little game with a great Virtua Cop - style aesthetic. Worth a try if you're looking for a non-Zombie light gun game or you want to try something short and unique for the Dreamcast.
Also during the end credits there's a sort of "blooper reel" of the characters messing up key cutscene moments, it's really slapstick and fun.
The game is comprised of three missions. The first mission is excellent, chasing this very wide mafioso kingpin sort of character through a museum(?) - the lighting effects are really nice and while there isn't much in terms of character variation, the bosses make up for it with very silly and over the top style. I love the cut-scenes here too, they're so hokey but have such a distinct style that I was left wanting more. The second mission is a bit of a miss, with a chase on a train through a snowy locale, but there's still fun to be had with your hokey eye-patched villain and our superspy disguised as a chef complete with a very tall hat. The third and final mission is at a sort of industrial warehouse base, while the art style is a bit generic, it makes up for it with some excellent level design and a really fun transformation of our eye-patched big bad into a sort of Lawnmower Man-esque cyber man.
Overall the game is really brief at around 45 minutes and while it can be a bit challenging to complete, especially with a controller, still left me wanting more. A fun little game with a great Virtua Cop - style aesthetic. Worth a try if you're looking for a non-Zombie light gun game or you want to try something short and unique for the Dreamcast.
Also during the end credits there's a sort of "blooper reel" of the characters messing up key cutscene moments, it's really slapstick and fun.