Dynamite Cop (1999) SEGA Dreamcast Gameplay in HD (Frycast)
0Game name - Dynamite Cop
Console - SEGA Dreamcast
Game Release - 1999-10-14
Region - EU
Publisher - Sega
Genre - Beat 'em up
Dynamite Cop is a 3D beat 'em up for up to two players in which players play as either Bruno Delinger, Jean Ivy, or Eddie Brown and fight through levels on board a cruise ship and on a deserted island to save the President's daughter from a band of modern-day pirates led by Wolf "White Fang" Hongo, the main antagonist from the first game. The classic Sega arcade game Tranquilizer Gun (1980) is included as a bonus game on the Dreamcast version. Clearing all missions will enable you to play Tranquilizer Gun an unlimited number of times.
Unsurprisingly Dynamite Cop plays an awful lot like Die Hard Arcade, though with two key differences: being able to move in eight directions rather than only up, down, left and right, and the ability to grapple people and throw them. It’s a fully 3D beat ‘em up, which I guess is due to the Dreamcast’s upgraded power (though a fair few PS1 games had already managed it, so… *shrugs*) but other than that it’s a couple of different melee combos per character (of which there are three this time, four if you download an update via the Dreamcast’s ahead-of-its-time internet port) some weapon swinging and a good smattering of QTE cut-scenes in between the stages. It’s still fun, in a mindless way, but the grapple is still behind a lot of classic examples of the genre, allowing you to tackle people and throw them, but not punch them while you have them grappled being the key example.
Some of the weapons are pretty crazy here, from arcade machines and way oversized dumbbells to bow and arrows and large missiles that leave mini-nuclear clouds behind as they blow up your foes. There are of course health pick-ups along with the large variety of weapons, and there are branching paths (three in total, though branching might be overstating it, it’s more like “three level 1 starts”) to try and add a bit of replay value to a game that is otherwise able to be completed in around half an hour. Lastly, just like previous game had the SEGA arcade game Deep Scan as a mini-game to unlock extra stuff, this game has “Tranquilizer Gun”, an equally retro SEGA hit.
As for clichés? Well beyond being on a cruise ship, which appears to be a 1998 scrolling beat ‘em up cliché judging by our last review, there are overweight enemies (including sumo wrestlers no less!) and ninjas, plus some female foes even if they’re dressed normally. As for a lift level? Strangely lacking in one, though it does have a level where enemies drop down from above as you fight in a confined, mostly metal, space, so…
Flycast Settings
Graphics API - OpenGL
Internal Resolution - 5120x2880 (x6)
Anisotropic - x16
Automatic Frame skipping - Disabled
Widescreen - On
Texture Filtering - Default
VSync - On
Delay Frame Swapping - On
My PC Specs
OS - Windows 10 Home
CPU - Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz 4.20 GHz
GPU - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070
RAM - 16.0 GB
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