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Time Crisis: Razing Storm | |
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Developer(s) | Nex Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Namco Bandai Games |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
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Genre(s) | Gun game |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer, online multiplayer |
Sound | Linear PCM (2-channel, 5.1-channel), Dolby Digital 5.1[3] |
Time Crisis: Razing Storm, known in Japan as Big 3 Gun Shooting,[4] is a compilation of light gunrail shooter video games by Namco for the PlayStation 3 home console.[1] Featuring full compatibility with both the GunCon 3 light gun and the PlayStation Move motion control system, the compilation consists of ports of various arcade games.[5][6] Developed by Nex Entertainment and published by Namco Bandai Games, the compilation was released in North America on October 19, 2010[2][7] and in Japan on October 21, 2010, which is the launch date of the PlayStation Move in Japan.[1] It will also be released as part of a bundle with the PlayStation Move, PlayStation Eye and the Shooting attachment for the PlayStation Move in Japan and other Asian countries such as Singapore.[8]
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Games[edit]
The compilation features the ports of three arcade games, namely:[5]
- Razing Storm
- A spin-off of the Time Crisis series, the game takes place in a massively destructible environment in a South American country under a bloody revolution. Players, who fight futuristic terrorists and renegade soldiers, represent members of a special-forces unit called S.C.A.R. (Strategic Combat and Rescue), sent to capture the leader of the rebels, who masterminded an attack on the United States. The First Person Shooting Mode wraps up the cliffhanger from the arcade edition of the game and fills in some of the game's plot holes.
- Time Crisis 4
- A re-release of the fourth game in the Time Crisis series about the trio of agents: William Rush, Giorgio Bruno and Evan Bernard in their mission to stop terrorists and their biological insect-like weapons, Terror Bites from using hidden agendas.
- Deadstorm Pirates
- A rail shooter game similar to the Sega arcade series, 'Let's Go Jungle!' where the player is given unlimited bullets and a navigation system. The story details the Pirate's attempt to find Poseidon's Breath, a mighty Treasure Galleon with an extremely valuable trinket.
Gameplay[edit]
The compilation supports both the GunCon 3 light gun and the PlayStation Move motion controller system[5][6] as well as vibration feedback and PlayStation Eye AV Chat.[3]
Two-player cooperative gameplay in Time Crisis: Razing Storm, with on-screen reticles
In addition to the original arcade mode, new gameplay modes in Time Crisis: Razing Storm include a sentry mode, a story mode, and an online battle mode. In sentry mode, up to four players take turns trying achieve a high score by stopping prisoners from escaping in the penitentiary riot scenario. Story mode and online battle mode both feature a new first person shooter-style navigation, in which the player can freely navigate the environment 'off the rails'. In online battle mode, up to 8 online players can play together in any of a number of battle modes.[5]
In addition to PlayStation Move support, Time Crisis 4: Arcade Ver. (based on the Arcade Mode from the 2007 PlayStation 3 release of Time Crisis 4[1]) and Deadstorm Pirates both feature online ranking, and support 1–2 players.[6]
Reception[edit]
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Razing Storm received 'mixed' reviews from critics according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[9]IGN said, 'Leave this one on the shelf, because no one should have to be this frustrated.'[19] In a slightly more positive review, GameSpot noted that 'Time Crisis: Razing Storm can be fun when it sticks to its arcade roots, but everything else in this shooter package misses the target completely.'[16] In a positive review, Cheat Code Central said, 'compared to most light gun games you'll find lots of great content here' and 'there are two really solid games in this package.'[22] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, two sevens, and one eight for a total of 30 out of 40.[12]
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References[edit]
- ^ abcd'PlayStation Move 対応「BIG 3 GUN SHOOTING」 10 月21 日(木) 発売' [Big 3 Gun Shooting for PlayStation Move: October 21 (Thursday) release] (PDF) (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Bandai Namco Games. 6 July 2010. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ ab'Time Crisis Razing Storm Release Information for PlayStation 3'. GameFAQs. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
- ^ ab'Big 3 Gun Shooting' (in Japanese). Bandai Namco Games. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^Gantayat, Anoop (6 July 2010). 'Sony Readying PS Move Bundles for Japan'. IGN. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
Big 3 Gun Shooting, known elsewhere in the world as far less awesome Time Crisis: Razing Storm, will be available as part of the PlayStation Move Big 3 Gun Shooting Perfect Pack.
- ^ abcdShuman, Sidney (June 24, 2010). 'Hands-on with Time Crisis: Razing Storm for PS3 and PlayStation Move'. PlayStation.Blog. Sony Computer Entertainment America. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
In addition to the central PlayStation Move and Navigation Controller support, Time Crisis: Razing Storm supports the GunCon 3, the peripheral that shipped with the PS3 version of Time Crisis 4. You’ll also be able to toss your PlayStation Move into the upcoming “Shooting Attachment.”
- ^ abc'Namco Bandai Games announces Time Crisis: Razing Storm for the PlayStation 3 system'. Namco Bandai Games. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
An online ranking system will be available in both Deadstorm Pirates and Time Crisis 4, so players can see how their performance stacks up against the world. Both games will also be compatible with the PlayStation Move motion controller and Guncon 3.
- ^'Sony Computer Entertainment America delivers groundbreaking 3D technology, next generation motion control experiences, and an unrivaled PlayStation 3 game line up at E3 2010'. Sony Computer Entertainment America. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
Time Crisis: Razing Storm (Bandai Namco), September 2010
- ^'Sony Computer Entertainment Japan to introduce PlayStation Move motion controller bundle packs featuring Bio Hazard 5 Alternative Edition and Big 3 Gun Shooting'. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. 6 July 2010. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ ab'Time Crisis: Razing Storm'. Metacritic. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^'Review: Time Crisis: Razing Storm'. Destructoid. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^Gibson, Ellie (22 December 2010). 'PlayStation Move Roundup'. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^ ab'Famitsu review scores: surprise game received 39/40 score; Move scores – System Wars – GameSpot'. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^Marchiafava, Jeff (2010-11-05). 'Time Crisis Compilation Is A Mixed Bag - Time Crisis: Razing Storm - PlayStation 3'. GameInformer.com. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^'Time Crisis Razing Storm Review from GamePro'. 24 October 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^'Time Crisis: Razing Storm Review – GameRevolution'. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^ abRamsay, Randolph (26 October 2010). 'Time Crisis: Razing Storm Review'. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^'Time Crisis: Razing Storm: Reviews, Trailers, and Interviews'. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^B. James (1 November 2010). 'Time Crisis: Razing Storm Review'. GameZone. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ abClements, Ryan (25 October 2010). 'Time Crisis: Razing Storm Review'. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^'Review: Time Crisis: Razing Storm'. PlayStation: The Official Magazine. 25 December 2010.
- ^Boxer, Steve (18 November 2010). 'Time Crisis: Razing Storm – review'. Retrieved 1 July 2017 – via The Guardian.
- ^'Time Crisis: Razing Storm Review for PlayStation 3 (PS3)'. cheatcc.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
External links[edit]
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A Barbary pirate, 1650The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were and and who operated from, based primarily in the ports of,. This area was known in as the, a term derived from the name of its inhabitants. Their predation extended throughout the, south along 's seaboard and into the as far north as, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing, they engaged in, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland. The main purpose of their attacks was for the as well as the general in North Africa and the Middle East. Slaves in Barbary could be black, brown or white, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim.While such raids had occurred since soon after the Muslim conquest of Iberia in the 8th century, the terms 'Barbary pirates' and 'Barbary corsairs' are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards, when the frequency and range of the slavers' attacks increased.
In that period Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the, either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the. Similar raids were undertaken from and other ports in.Barbary corsairs captured thousands of merchant ships and repeatedly raided coastal towns.
As a result, residents abandoned their former villages of long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy. Between 100,000 and 250,000 Iberians were enslaved by these raids. The raids were such a problem coastal settlements were seldom undertaken until the 19th century. Between 1580 and 1680 corsairs were said to have captured about 850,000 people as slaves and from 1530 to 1780 as many as 1,250,000 people were enslaved. However, these numbers have been questioned by the historian David Earle. Some of these corsairs were European outcasts and (renegade) such as.
And, Turkish Barbarossa Brothers, who took control of Algiers on behalf of the Ottomans in the early 16th century, were also notorious corsairs. The European pirates brought advanced sailing and shipbuilding techniques to the Barbary Coast around 1600, which enabled the corsairs to extend their activities into the. The effects of the Barbary raids peaked in the early to mid-17th century.Long after Europeans had abandoned -driven vessels in favor of sailing ships carrying tons of powerful cannon, many Barbary warships were carrying a hundred or more fighting men armed with and small arms. The Barbary navies were not battle fleets. When they sighted a European, they fled.The scope of corsair activity began to diminish in the latter part of the 17th century, as the more powerful European navies started to compel the Barbary States to make peace and cease attacking their shipping. However, the ships and coasts of Christian states without such effective protection continued to suffer until the early 19th century.
Following the and the in 1814–15, European powers agreed upon the need to suppress the Barbary corsairs entirely and the threat was largely subdued. Occasional incidents occurred, including two between the and the Barbary States, until finally terminated by the in 1830. Contents.History In 1198 the problem of Berber piracy and slave-taking was so great that the, a religious order, were founded to collect ransoms and even to exchange themselves as ransom for those captured and pressed into slavery in North Africa. In the 14th century Tunisian corsairs became enough of a threat to provoke a Franco-Genoese attack on Mahdia in 1390, also known as the '.
Exiles of the and Maghreb pirates added to the numbers, but it was not until the expansion of the Ottoman Empire and the arrival of the privateer and admiral in 1487 that the Barbary corsairs became a true menace to shipping from European Christian nations. British captain witnessing the miseries of Christian slaves in Algiers, 1815During the the pirates attacked American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean. But, on December 20, 1777, issued a declaration recognizing America as an independent country, and that American merchant ships could enjoy safe passage into the Mediterranean and along the coast. The relations were formalized with the signed in 1786, which stands as the U.S.' S oldest non-broken friendship with a foreign power.As late as 1798, an islet near was attacked by the, and more than 900 inhabitants were taken away as slaves. 16th century. 1538From 1659, these African cities, although nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, were in fact military republics that chose their own rulers and lived by war booty captured from the Spanish and Portuguese.
There are several cases of, including and, who upon turned to attacking the Spanish Empire's shipping under the Ottoman flag, a profitable strategy of revenge for the 's.During the first period (1518–1587), the beylerbeys were admirals of the sultan, commanding great fleets and conducting war operations for political ends. They were slave-hunters and their methods were ferocious. After 1587, the sole object of their successors became plunder, on land and sea.
The maritime operations were conducted by the captains, or reises, who formed a class or even a corporation. Cruisers were fitted out by investors and commanded by the reises. Ten percent of the value of the prizes was paid to the pasha or his successors, who bore the titles of agha or or bey. A French Ship and Barbary Pirates by, c.
1615A notable counter action occurred in 1607, when the (under ) sacked in Algeria, killing 470 and taking 1,464 captives. This victory is commemorated by a series of frescoes painted by in the 'Sala di Bona' of,. In 1611 Spanish galleys from, accompanied by the galleys of the, raided the off the coast of and took away almost 500 Muslim captives. Between 1568 and 1634 the Knights of Saint Stephen may have captured about 14,000 Muslims, with perhaps one-third taken in land raids and two-thirds taken on captured ships.
The work of the was in ransoming Christian slaves held in Muslim hands, Histoire de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires, 1637was subject to a similar attack. In June 1631 Murat Reis, with corsairs from Algiers and armed troops of the, stormed ashore at the little harbor village of. They and took them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates – some lived out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves, while women spent long years as in harems or within the walls of the sultan's palace. Only two of these captives ever returned to Ireland. More than 20,000 captives were said to be imprisoned in Algiers alone. The rich were often able to secure release through ransom, but the poor were condemned to slavery.
Their masters would on occasion allow them to secure freedom by professing Islam. A long list might be given of people of good social position, not only Italians or Spaniards, but German or English travelers in the south, who were captives for a time. Captain paying tribute to the of Algiers, circa 1800Piracy was enough of a problem that some states entered into the redemption business. In Denmark, 'At the beginning of the 18th century money was collected systematically in all churches, and a so called 'slave fund' (slavekasse) was established by the state in 1715.
Funds were brought in through a compulsory insurance sum for seafarers. 165 slaves were ransomed by this institution between 1716 and 1736.' 'Between 1716 and 1754 19 ships from Denmark-Norway were captured with 208 men; piracy was thus a serious problem for the Danish merchant fleet.' Until the in 1776, treaties with the states protected American ships from the corsairs., which in 1777 was, in 1784 became the first Barbary power to seize an American vessel after the nation achieved independence.
The Barbary threat led directly to the United States founding the in March 1794. While the United States did secure peace treaties with the Barbary states, it was obliged to pay tribute for protection from attack. The burden was substantial: in 1800 payments in ransom and tribute to the Barbary states amounted to 20% of 's annual expenditures. Bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth in August 1816,The Barbary states had difficulty securing uniform compliance with a total prohibition of slave-raiding, as this had been traditionally of central importance to the North African economy.
Slavers continued to take captives by preying on less well-protected peoples. Algiers subsequently renewed its slave-raiding, though on a smaller scale. Europeans at the in 1818 discussed possible retaliation. In 1820 a British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal bombarded Algiers. Corsair activity based in Algiers did not entirely cease until France.
Slaves Barbary slaves. See also: andAccording to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in and between the 16th and 19th centuries. However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period, stating:There are no records of how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed, or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves were needed annually to replenish numbers – about 850,000 captives over the century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000.
Slave market in, 1684Davis' numbers have been questioned by the historian David Earle, who said of Davis' numbers 'His figures sound a bit dodgy and I think he may be exaggerating' and cautioned that the true picture of European slaves is clouded by the fact that the corsairs also seized non-Christian whites from eastern Europe and black people from west Africa.In addition, the number of slaves traded was hyperactive, with exaggerated estimates relying on peak years to calculate averages for entire centuries, or millennia. Hence, there were wide fluctuations year-to-year, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, given slave imports, and given the fact that, prior to the 1840s, there are no consistent records. Middle East expert, John Wright, cautions that modern estimates are based on back-calculations from human observation.Such observations, across the late 1500s and early 1600s observers, account for around 35,000 European Christian slaves held throughout this period on the Barbary Coast, across Tripoli, Tunis, but mostly in Algiers. The majority were sailors (particularly those who were English), taken with their ships, but others were fishermen and poor coastal villagers. However, most of these captives were people from lands close to Africa, particularly Spain and Italy.From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children.
On some occasions, settlements such as, were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates. Christian slaves in Algiers, early 19th centuryCaptives often suffered from privation on voyages to North Africa if taken at a distance. Those who survived the journeys were often forced to walk through town as they were taken to slave auctions. The slaves typically had to stand from eight in the morning until two in the afternoon while buyers viewed them.Next came the auction, where the townspeople would bid on the captives they wanted to purchase and once that was over, the governor of Algiers (the Dey) had the chance to purchase any slave he wanted for the price they were sold at the auction.
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During the auctions the slaves would be forced to run and jump around to show their strength and stamina. After purchase, the captives would either be held for ransom, or be put to work. Slaves were used for a wide variety of jobs, from hard manual labor to housework (the job assigned to most women slaves). At night the slaves were put into prisons called ' ' (derived from the Italian word 'bagno' for public bath, inspired by the Turks' use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons), which were often hot and overcrowded. However, these bagnios began improving by the 18th century. Some bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops, and bars run by captives, though such amenities remained uncommon.
Galley slaves. Conquest of by and liberation of Christian in 1535Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better than those endured by slaves. Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. There were exceptions: 'galley slaves of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople would be permanently confined to their galleys, and often served extremely long terms, averaging around nineteen years in the late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century periods. These slaves rarely got off the galley but lived there for years.' During this time, rowers were shackled and chained where they sat, and never allowed to leave. Sleeping (which was limited), eating, defecation and urination took place at the seat to which they were shackled.
There were usually five or six rowers on each oar. Overseers would walk back and forth and whip slaves considered not to be working hard enough.
Main article:English corsair Jack, or John, Ward was once called 'beyond doubt the greatest scoundrel that ever sailed from England' by the English ambassador to Venice. Ward was a privateer for Queen Elizabeth during her war with Spain; after the end of the war, he became a corsair. With some associates he captured a ship in about 1603 and sailed it to Tunis; he and his crew converted to. He was successful and became rich. He introduced heavily armed, used instead of galleys, to the North African area, a major reason for the Barbary's future dominance of the Mediterranean. He died of plague in 1622.Sayyida al-Hurra.
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