Midway's Controversial NARC Update Ups Drug Intake

Thanks to IGN PS2 for its hands-on preview of Midway's PS2/Xbox action title NARC, an update of the classic '80s anti-drug arcade title of the same name. This game, which Game Informer notes has been "built on VIS Entertainment's State of Emergency engine", takes the "good cop/bad cop" gameplay concept to an extreme, as GameSpot explains: "You'll actually be able to use the illegal drugs you confiscate throughout the game. In fact, they'll actually give you short-term benefits." The drugs include "pot, speed, LSD, crack, and the newly invented Liquid Soul", and effects vary - for example, IGN notes: "Smoking marijuana in NARC slows time down and makes the screen blur, but also gives incredible focus", and GameSpot mentions: "Dropping acid fills the screen with crazy colors, but it also gives innocent citizens large jester heads while giving criminals large devil heads, for easy identification." But GI also cautions: "By taking one of the addictive drugs... the controller vibrations will get longer and longer until the player will literally have to fight to keep the shakes at bay."

Comments

WooHoo!!

[Creepy Crawler]

Screw "Bullet Time"

Gimmee my weedtime, cracktime, and lsdtime ;-) oh my.

Devs must have had fun

[nacs]

I wonder how much hands-on "research" the developers did for this game? ;-)

MunchieVision(TM)

[rufo]

Apparently Midway's still trying to figure out how to force you to make Taco Bell and Hershey bar runs every few hours...

Thankyou-Thankyou

[angryflute]

I wonder if anybody will come up with a crack for this game?