is a 1992 first-person

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developed and released by

Namco was a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Na ...

for arcades. It is the sequel to ''

Steel Gunner is a 1990 first-person shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco. Players take control of Garcia and Cliff, a duo of police officers that are part of the Neo Arc police force, as they must use their powerful Gargoyle mecha suits to ...

'', which had been released in 1990. It was also sold as a conversion kit for

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's '' Operation Thunderbolt'' (1988).

Gameplay

''Steel Gunner'' is a first-person

shooter video game Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using the weapons given to the player. Usually these weapons are firearms or some other long-range ...

. Its plot involves a terrorist group named Vanguard attacking the town of Neo Arc City, New Jersey using its army of cyborgs and robots. The Neo Arc City Police request the aid of Garcia and Cliff, police officers that pilot robotic suits known as Gargoyles, to destroy Vanguard and protect Neo Arc City. The players must take control of the Neo Arc policemen, Garcia and Cliff, but this time they are on a mission to destroy the evil army of Vanguard who are attacking the city. Some of the enemies from the original game make comebacks, but have undergone a makeover since the first time Neo Arc saw them, in 1990 - and several new enemies have also been introduced as well. Again, the players can shoot anything on the screen, including background objects, and even innocent bystanders (of which there are only eight types now as opposed to ten); if they should do the latter it will cause them to lose energy as if they got hit by an enemy.

Reception

In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Steel Gunner 2'' in their April 15, 1992 issue as being the eighth most-popular upright arcade game at the time. In North America, ''RePlay'' reported the game to be the seventh most-popular arcade game at the time.

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1992 video games Arcade video games Arcade-only video games First-person shooters Light gun games Namco arcade games Video game sequels Video games about police officers Video games about terrorism Video games developed in Japan {{NamcoBandai-stub