"Say No or Die! A great way to get America off drugs."

If you're a fan of shooting or action games, then this game could fit pretty well. NARC is the game where you are a flak vest-wearing, helmet-donning narcotics officer/unit. Either Max Force or Hit Man (depending on what player you are), you control the streets with your weapons of mass destruction. You'll have to take out drug traffickers and the major drug tycoon himself, Mr. Big, in order to put an end to the K.R.A.K. organization.

Gameplay: The difficulty made it extra-hard. Swarms and hordes of weapon-toting enemies would wield a wide arrange of weapons at you. Mr. Big was the hardest of all the enemies in the game. At the end, you were confined to a hallway in which the gigantic moving head of Mr. Big approached you, shooting orange potato chips out of his mouth. If you could blast him hard enough, then the direct hit would turn him into a crazy skull on a very long spinal cord which shortened every time damage was taken. This particular scene was shown in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, where Mr. Big was swinging his wily skull around like a maniac. The control of the game was sloppy at the time. Two words: button-bashing.

Story: You were made to eliminate junkies, addicts, and dealers. Simple as that. Shoot trash cans, use a sporty roadster to run over members of the Das Lof Gang. Get crushed by dumpsters thrown by Joe Rockhed or get drug overdosed by Dr. Spike ''Hypoman'' Rush's heroin syringes. Blah Blah. Basically the game is shoot, bust criminals, collect drugs, money and extra ammo. Various characters would pop out to destroy you like Sgt. Skyhigh, Kinky Pinky, Bevon Face, Rabid Pit Bulls, The H.Q. Posse, and Mr. Big in his rocket-powered wheelchair. Watch out for land mines and speeding sports cars too.

Audio: The sound was mind-blowing. Speakers were loud. Especially when there was loud explosions, machine gun bullets getting fired, or funky techno music playing.

Graphics: The graphics of NARC were fairly well done (compared to the home version). Characters were well-digitized and the backgrounds were pretty cool. Lots of colors were used, at least more than the NES conversion. Characters looked pretty real and everything was animated excellently. Including the body chunks.

Replayability: You'll always come back to NARC because it is impossible to beat without emptying your whole savings account. I can't get past Sunset Strip where hundreds of clowns and pit bulls are on the screen at once, destroying you quickly as cars speed by taking away lives by the second.

Overall: Overall, NARC is a good game. I liked it because when it first came out, it was one of my favorite action shooters. The graphics and sound were good, as well as the gameplay. A challenge is a good thing, right? Anyway, if you can actually find this game somewhere, play it, and you might appreciate that it started the digitized and gory craze on video games.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 12/02/00, Updated 12/02/00