Time Crisis 2nd Strike

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Time Crisis 2nd Strike
Developer(s) Namco Networks (iOS)
Namco Bandai Games (Android)
Publisher(s) Namco Networks (iOS)
Namco Bandai Games (Android)
Series Time Crisis
Platform(s) iOS, Android
ReleaseiPhone
September 15, 2010
iPad
December 21, 2010
Android
  • JP: May 2013
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Time Crisis 2nd Strike was a first-person shooter developed and published by Namco Networks for iOS in 2010, and by Namco Bandai Games for Android in Japan in 2013. It is the sequel of the Time Crisis spin-off, Time Crisis Strike, and the alternate version story of Time Crisis 4 . It allowed players to use another iOS device as a gun controller via the app iGunCon. It is no longer available for purchase as of March 30, 2015. [1]

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Reception

The iOS version received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3]

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