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NARC doesn't masquerade behind some morally ambiguous gray area. You just do drugs and kill people. NARC also doesn't claim to offer the most feature rich, exciting action on the planet. Nope, you just do drugs and kill people. But you might still smile enough to make that simplicity worth a look.
Like any good high, NARC offers a brief period of euphoria followed by the sudden dramatic realization that what you're doing is probably very, very bad for your brain and/or spinal column. Yet, it's also likely to beg for a second, third, fourth and fifth try. Every single time I turned on NARC I knew my brain and backbone were deteriorating even further. I just couldn't stop stupidly laughing long enough to really hammer down all of the many reasons why I should drop the controller and plug in a better action title. It's that kind of guilty pleasure. NARC is pornography and peanut butter cup ice cream. NARC is a morning of hooky followed by a nap set to the mellow PBS droning of Draw Along with Paul Ringler. It's a last minute cancellation of a hot date just to make more room for bloody Farscape reruns.
When trying to figure out why the game is like this, I realized that our own David Clayman put it best when he suggested that NARC would be the greatest live action television show / movie of our time. It's true, too. The random brutality that makes this kind of wildly unreal game so endearing represents a fresher comedic take on the usually gritty seriousness of other urban life action titles. After all, where else can a fellow run around (which itself involves watching a pretty comical animation), flash a badge at some random dude, punch him a few times, kick him in the junk, wrestle him to the ground, cuff him, beat him some more, then just start shooting at anything that walks while announcing that you got some seriously hardcore s*** to sell?
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Published - Midway
Developed - Point of View
Genre - Action
Number of Players - 1
Release Date - March 21, 2005
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