Zone Hunter

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Zone Hunter
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DevelopersTaito, Virtuality Group
PublishersTaito, Virtuality Group
DesignerAndy Smith
ProgrammersJason Woodward
Tarique Naseem
ArtistMark Hardisty
ComposerMike Adams
PlatformArcade
Release
GenresFirst-person shooter, rail shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade system2000SU[1]

Zone Hunter[a] is a virtual reality first-person rail shooter video game developed and published in conjunction by Taito and Virtuality Group in 1994 for arcades, though the former is not credited in-game.[2]

Gameplay

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Zone Hunter is a first-person shooter, and was one of the first VR arcade games.[3]

Development and release

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Zone Hunter was co-developed by the UK-based virtual reality company Virtuality Group and the Japanese arcade specialist Taito. It was the first title in Virtuality's second generation (2000 series) of products introduced in 1994.[4][5][6][7][8][9] It was produced at the same time as Sega's virtual reality Model 1 arcade game TecWar,[b] which was also a joint effort with Virtuality.[10][11] Taito conceived Zone Hunter and worked alongside Virtuality as a deal to bring the game into Japanese arcade markets under their banner.[2] Due to low sales in the region, Taito terminated the deal between them and Virtuality, with the latter opening their own office in Japan afterwards.[2]

A port for the Atari Jaguar was announced and planned to be released alongside the Jaguar VR headset peripheral at launch.[12][13][14][15][16][17] A demo was created for demonstration purposes.[18][19][20] However, neither the port nor the peripheral were ever released due to problems between Virtuality and Atari Corporation in their deal.[21][22]

Reception

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Next Generation said that the game was neither as fun or playable as Doom, nor as "good looking" as Virtua Cop.[3] Reviewing the game at Sega World, Sega Pro rated the game eight out of ten and concluded that "Virtuality's hard work and R&D is finally paying off" despite it not having "the final stroke of realism to put you in a Lawnmower Man-esque situation."[24] Brian Osserman of Intelligent Gamer commented, "The game is fun, but it is highly questionable whether it is worth $5 a shot."[25]

Notes

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  1. ^ Japanese: ゾーン ハンター, Hepburn: Zōn Hantā
  2. ^ Also known as ElectronicBrain.[10]

References

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