
The weapon is lost if the player is hit, but not if he shoots a civilian. The players can also shoot powerups that grant a special weapon or a life. Taking damage or shooting a civilian causes the player to lose a life. Players assume the role of police officers in a first-person perspective and use a light gun to shoot criminals and advance through the game. Virtua Cop was followed by two sequels, Virtua Cop 2 and Virtua Cop 3. Its name derived from this graphicalstyle, which was previously used in Virtua Fighter,Virtua Striker and Virtua Racing. It was one of the first games to allow the player to shoot through glass. Emphasizing the real time nature of the game, enemies would react different depending on where they were shot. Virtua Cop was notable for its use of real timepolygonal graphics, which were subsequently used in both The House of the Dead and Time Crisis, instead of the two dimensional sprites and static backgrounds that were used in previous games in the same genre. In 2004, a port was developed for thehandheld Nokia N-Gage, but this was cancelled by the quality control team before its release. It included gallery extras and implementation of Namco's G-Con 2 lightgun support. The game was later bundled with Virtua Cop 2 in Japan and Europe on the PlayStation 2 as Virtua Cop: Elite Edition (Virtua Cop Rebirth in Japan) on Augand Novemrespectively. The Saturn version included support for both the Virtua Gun and Saturn mouse, as well as a new «Training Mode» which consists of a randomly generated shooting gallery.

Its original incarnation was an arcade game in 1994 and it was later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995 andMicrosoft Windows in 1997.

Virtua Cop Download Free Full Game (known as Virtua Squad for the North American Windows version) is a first-personlightgun shooter arcade game created by Sega AM2 and headed by Yu Suzuki.
