Dynamite Cop

Sega console exclusive

A beat 'em up video game published by Sega and initially released in arcades on Sega Model 2 hardware. It is the sequel to the 1996 game, Dynamite Deka which was released outside Japan as Die Hard Arcade. The game was ported to the Dreamcast and released internationally in 1999, this time without the Die Hard license. A third sequel, Asian Dynamite, was released only in arcades.

Released: 27 May 1999
Platforms: Arcade Dreamcast
Genres: Arcade Beat 'em up Fighting
Developers: Sega Wow
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Comedy
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB T PEGI 16
Languages: English, Japanese
Time to beat: 1hmain story2hwith extras2hcompletionist
Composers: Howard Drossin

About

Dynamite Cop, known in Japan as Dynamite Deka 2 (ダイナマイト刑事2, Dainamaito Deka Tsu), is a 1998 beat 'em up video game published by Sega and initially released in arcades on Sega Model 2 hardware. It is the sequel to the 1996 game Dynamite Deka, which was released outside Japan as Die Hard Arcade. The game was ported to the Dreamcast and released internationally in 1999, this time without the Die Hard license. A second sequel, Dynamite Deka EX: Asian Dynamite, was released only in arcades.

In 2002, an Xbox version was announced by Sega and Cool Net Entertainment under the joint brand name "CoolCool", but since then there has been no information and the project has been abandoned. CoolCool itself has not released anything other than Rent a Hero No. 1 and appears to have disappeared.

›Story

Bruno Delinger, Jean Ivy, or Eddie Brown 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.

Keywords

pirates
brawler
multiple protagonists
crime
high score
boss fight
alternate costumes
polygonal 3d
transforming boss
arcade cabinet
villain
recurring boss

Media

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Gameplay

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 enables unlimited play of Tranquilizer Gun.

Reception

The Dreamcast version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Jeff Chen of NextGen called the game's Japanese import "An entertaining, if somewhat last-generation-looking, game." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.

Also in Japan, Game Machine listed the arcade version in their August 1, 1998 issue as the fourth most-successful arcade game of the month.