Virtua Cop 2 (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Sega's 1997 arcade-port rail-shooter for PCs running Windows 95, Virtua Cop 2.

Played through arcade mode on the normal difficulty level. I didn't play all of the possible paths in this one, but if you'd like to see anything that this playthrough doesn't hit, check out my original upload for this game: :    • Virtua Squad 2 (1997) PC Playthrough - Nin...  

The full CD soundtrack is here intact, since I was playing with the original CD and not an internet "rip" with all the redbook tracks missing.

For as amazing of a game as Virtua Cop was, VC2 improved on it in just about every way, and the 1995 sequel somehow stretched the hardware even further to produce what was one of the most impressive titles of its day. The PC port doesn't veer too far from it.

If you (somehow) haven't played a Virtua Cop game before, it's basically Lethal Enforcers using real-time 3D graphics instead of digitized sprites. Or like House of the Dead, but with fewer houses and dead things.

The graphics are all pretty close and very smooth, but like most of the 3D PC ports Sega released in the late 90s, no PC at the time would have been capable of running it like it is running here. I have the video options maxxed for this recording: it is playing on the software renderer at 640x480x32 with shading turned on and frameskipping turned off. If you want to see how it ran on a PC back then, check out my original upload linked above. That was recorded on a P200 MMX (which hadn't been released quite yet when this game came out) and barely holds the smooth framerate at 400x300x16. The PC ports of Virtua Fighter 2 and Panzer Dragoon were about the same in terms of performance, for the sake of comparison.

Anyway, this game is golden. It's absurdly difficult (seriously, you won't finish it in five credits without being seriously fast, even after you've committed enemy locations to memory), but then that's to be expected given it was an arcade game, and this port is extremely faithful to it. It's stupid, mindless fun that you just can't help but smile at as you play. I hope you all enjoy it!

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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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