Crime Wave is a side-scrolling shooter with certain similarities to Narc in tone and gameplay. Controlling a police officer, the player shoots his or her way through slums, inner cities, and other locations, trying to destroy a powerful criminal organization and save the President's gorgeous, young, and single daughter. The game features digitized graphics.
ShooterActionbloodycrimecrime fightingAtari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga
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Unpretentious, plot-driven, classical in form and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga
- Developer
- The Code Monkeys, Access Software
- Publisher
- U.S. Gold
- Released
- December 31, 1990
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
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