Ludography
Crisis Beat cover

1998 · Soft Machine · Beat 'em up · Fighting

Crisis Beat

PlayStation exclusive

If you are an action game connoisseur then Crisis Beat is the game for you.

Released
1998
Platforms
PlayStationPlayStation 3PlayStation Portable
Genres
Beat 'em upFighting
Developers
Soft Machine
Publishers
Bandai
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Country
Japan
Time to beat
1hmain story3hwith extras5hcompletionist

About

Crisis Beat is a 1998 video game for the Sony PlayStation, developed by Japanese studio Soft Machine. It is a beat-em-up style game. The story is set on a cruise liner where terrorists hijack the ship and the player must pick a pair of characters to fight back.

Keywords

  • female protagonist
  • multiple protagonists
  • crime
  • voice acting
  • broken english
  • polygonal 3d
  • psone classics
  • wrestling moves in non-wrestling games
  • androgyny
  • environment as weapons
  • male protagonist

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

It is a beat-em-up style game in full 3D. The player can choose between two pairs of characters to play as. Stages consist of the player fighting various waves of enemies primarily in hand to hand combat and moving to the next stage once every enemy has been defeated.

Reception

It was released on June 18, 1998 for the Sony PlayStation in Japan, and in 2000 in Europe. It was re-released in 2013 on PlayStation Network.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
PlayStation18 June 1998Japan · Europe 18 August 2000
PlayStation 36 February 2013Europe
PlayStation Portable6 February 2013Europe

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