Expert

Expert is a first-person shooter (FPS) game. The game is set in Tokyo, Japan in the near future. In the game, the player takes control of a person who is a member of EXPERT, a SWAT team that must clear out a government building that has been taken over by terrorists.

The bottom of the screen contains information about the player's current weapon in use, remaining ammunition and the amount of health the player has.

Expert was developed by Nichibutsu. While there were several FPS games that were made in Japan in the 1990s, Expert was one of the few that was released for the PlayStation. It was released just as FPS games were being released for consoles.

Expert was published by Nihon Bussan and released for the PlayStation on May 31, 1996 in Japan. It was bootlegged in various locations under the title Counter-Strike Ver. Expert to have it appear if it was part of the popular Counter-Strike series. This bootleg of the game is exactly the same as Expert, only with different cover art.

Reviewing the game in Famicom Tsūshin, three of the four reviewers found the controls awkward, particularly moving left and right while two reviewers said that the depth of field was too short, leading them to get hit from enemies across a room they didn't see. Two reviewers complimented the scenario and some locations such as the parking lot and hotel floors, while one reviewer said that despite the change of scenery in these levels, the strategy remains the same throughout the game. In Dengeki PlayStation, one reviewer said the difficulty in the game was high and that gunfights appear unassuming at first glance, but have tense moments such as defusing a bomb. A second reviewer said it had a stronger story than Doom and the variety of missions made it an addictive title. They were disappointed in the lack of radar for a map and the inability to pick up some items during gameplay.

From magazines that reviewed import titles from Japan, the reviewers in Fun Generation and Game Power  critiqued the graphics. The reviewer in Game Power found that even though Expert did not feature elaborate textures or excessive polygons, when the screen had a couple of opponents, the game instantly slowed down the control but not the pace of other characters such as enemies in the game. The reviewer in Super Fun said that if there were an award for worst graphics in a game, Expert would be a strong contender, saying that the game stuttered continuously. Both Fun Generation and Game Power the only PlayStation console games in the style of Doom (1993) that were of any sort of quality on the system so far were Doom (1995) and Alien Trilogy (1996).