#POLICENAUTS CHARACTERS MOVIE#

In 2040, Jonathan has become a private investigator on Earth in Old Los Angeles. During that time, Beyond Coast has become the principal development location for potential interstellar travel, and is protected by a dedicated police force dubbed the Beyond Coast Police Department (BCPD). In reality, the cryogenic survival system in the suit preserved him, and he is found and revived 25 years later. During the test of a new space suit, an accident causes Jonathan to drift into space, presumed dead by his colleagues. In 2013, Los Angeles Police Department officer Jonathan Ingram ( Hideyuki Tanaka) was one of five 'Policenauts', police officers who received astronaut training to protect Beyond Coast, humanity's first functional self-supporting space colony. The Sega Saturn version supports a light gun for these segments. There are occasional action scenes where the player must fire a gun at enemies in a first-person perspective. In versions with cel animation, these scenes the player must examine are stills from the animated cinematics, so the game moves seamlessly between them and cutscenes. Once the right object in the scene has been examined or the dialogue options have been exhausted, the game progresses to the next scene in the story. During conversations, the player is given dialogue options to choose from. The player moves a cursor freely across the screen to click on objects to examine them. It has also been called a visual novel and an interactive movie. Policenauts is a graphic adventure game with a point-and-click interface. In this scene (from the PC-98 version), Jonathan is conversing with Lorraine Hojo. The player chooses actions from text-based menus to progress the story. Along with Snatcher, which has been retrospectively identified as its spiritual predecessor, Policenauts has been called one of the best science fiction works in games, and a foundation for Kojima's later work in the Metal Gear franchise. Critics have praised Policenauts for its animation, voice acting, and overall presentation several commentators have analysed its cinematic influences from films in the science fiction, action, comedy, and buddy genres, while others noted its reflection of Kojima's fascination with science and technology, and have praised its storyline, technical writing and worldbuilding. After interest in Kojima's work grew following the release of Metal Gear Solid (1998), demand for a translation built until a fan translation of the PlayStation version was released in 2009. The original PC-9821 release utilized pixel art, while the 3DO, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn ports featured cel animation by Anime International Company.Īn English localization was planned for the Saturn but was eventually cancelled, with Kojima citing technical problems with the translation.

Drawing creative influences from American buddy television shows, contemporary social debates on anti-Japanese sentiment and organ transplantation, and Japan's heightened interest in space travel following the first Japanese man's trip to space in 1990, he sought to explore the concept of how living in space may affect human society and life, socially and physiologically. He wanted the production quality to match that of major motion pictures, and created a scripting engine to give him more creative control. Kojima conceived Policenauts while working on Snatcher (1988), and began development in 1990. As he begins his investigation, he starts to uncover an illegal organ trafficking ring. Now a detective in Los Angeles, Ingram travels back to the colony to investigate the murder of his ex-wife and her husband's disappearance. A hard science fiction story, Policenauts is set in the mid 21st century and follows Jonathan Ingram, an astronaut recently recovered floating in space in cryosleep after an accident at a space colony sent him drifting into space for 24 years. It was written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and originally released for the PC-9821 in 1994. Policenauts is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Konami.

#POLICENAUTS CHARACTERS MOVIE#

Adventure, visual novel, interactive movie

Policenauts characters