Policenauts game

Is it a challenge from man to space, or a challenge from space against mankind? Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Crazy credits There is an extra scene after the credits. Connections Featured in Metal Gear Solid User reviews Be the first to review. FAQ 1. Is this game available in English? Details Edit. Release date July 29, Japan.

Konami Japan. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. The main theme relies on a spooky, fourteen note theme which should also sound familiar to anyone who played Metal Gear Solid — it plays during the Konami logo in that name.

Like many Japanese adventure games, Policenauts suffers a bit from its linearity, and its story may be somewhat disappointing for those expecting more off-the-wall fare. The fan translators did a fantastic job in not only localizing the text — which contains tons of medical and scientific terms, not exactly everyday reading — but keeping all of the occasionally rather dirty humor. They even went to great extents to fix up some bugs and make some of the name spellings to make them more consistent.

The dialogue is obviously left in Japanese, which is naturally for the best, because fandubs never, ever work. As of current, only the PlayStation version is translated, but the hackers are looking into the other versions, if technically feasible.

Nobody really has a solid idea why Policenauts was never translated in the first place. The Saturn version initially appeared on retail release lists, and there was even a promotional box mockup, but it dropped off pretty quickly.

Jeremy Blaustein, the localizer of Snatcher and Metal Gear Solid , said he heard of no internal plans to localize the game at the time he was working at Konami. After the release of Metal Gear Solid , Kojima was interviewed several times by the Western press about an English translation of Policenauts , but he shirked them all off, essentially saying that they should look forward to his new games and forget his old ones.

Very strange words, from a rather strange man. The original PC version differs substantially from the console versions. Although all versions come on CD, the console versions use full motion video for certain important cutscenes, while the PC version just uses animated stills, similar to Snatcher. For example, the scientist, Victor, has an AI named Gorby to help him analyze samples.

Some other small animations also had to be removed too. The bomb defusing sequence is much harder in the PC98 version, because the maze you have to guide the block through is viewed at a slight angle, making it difficult to see the edges. The viewpoint was changed in the console versions. The character designs are slightly different, with the console version using the redesigns that animation studio AIC created for the cutscenes.

Most of the scenes look approximately the same, but a few were completely redrawn, especially the biomort storage facility. The PC98 version looks heavily inspired by the thriller Coma , with suspended bodies in mid-air, but perhaps it was too graphic for the consoles. The PC version also features little portraits at the bottom of the screen during voiced dialogue, without subtitles, just like Snatcher.

These were removed for the console versions, although it adds in text. The PC98 version also has a longer script, with more dialogue, and some events that play out slightly differently. For example, Jonathan signs a document upon giving the capsules to the BCP, which in turn is used to forge incriminating documents.

The console versions also introduce summary screens, which act to bring the player up to speed upon reloading a saved game, an element carried forward to Metal Gear Solid. The opening is a bit different too. There are slight differences between the console versions. The first was the 3DO version, oddly enough, which used some crappy compression for the video cutscenes. This is fully translated online at Policenauts.

The second release was the PlayStation version, which has the best looking videos, but these only run at a rather choppy 15 FPS. A supplementary release called the Policenauts Private Collection was later released, which includes nearly all of the goodies from the Pilot Disc , plus the script and storyboard.

Since the Pilot Disc was meant to be a demo it dances around spoilers but the Private Collection has no problem revealing the entire game. Hojo had been included in the business in order to save his daughter, Karen, and ultimately wanted to leave, only to be murdered. During a stand-off with Becker, Jonathan records Becker's confession about the scheme and has Meryl broadcast the recording live, exposing the scandal to the colonists. Ed saves Jonathan from death, while Meryl and the remaining police arrest Tokugawa.

Jonathan donates his bone marrow to Karen upon learning that he is her biological father, and returns to Earth. Policenauts is a graphic adventuregame with a point-and-click interface. It has also been called a visual novel and an interactive movie. The player moves a cursor freely across the screen to click on objects to examine them. During conversations, the player is given dialogue options to choose from. Once the right object in the scene has been examined or the dialogue options have been exhausted, the game progresses to the next scene in the story.

In versions with cel animation, these scenes the player must examine are stills from the animated cinematics, so the game moves seamlessly between them and cutscenes.

There are occasional action scenes where the player must fire a gun at enemies in a first-person perspective. The Sega Saturn version supports a light gun for these segments. Konami Wiki Explore.