History VideoGame / FutureCopLAPD

* PoliceBrutality: The X-1 is only called in when the situation escalates beyond the control of the normal police units. When it's called in, police use "Code X", meaning the situation is extremely hostile and requires lethal force to regain control. Which in this case means a transforming mecha armed with more firepower than some small nations. What are you expecting? It's ''[[AcceptableTargets Los Angeles]]''.

* JokeLevel: Accessed after beating all Precinct Assault maps against a Difficulty 10 Sky Captain. [[spoiler: It is very similar to Proving Ground except more green, replaces all tanks with worms, helicopters with butterflies, turns the Super Tank into a SandWorm and the Flying Fortress into a giant bat. Towers become flowers. Sky Captain? A dragonfly or cocoon. All this insanity plays to hilarious music.]]

* SuperDrowningSkills: Avoided and played straight. Touching water in the Walker mode forces an instant transformation into hovercar mode when on the easiest difficulty setting. Otherwise, you sink.

* TheAlcatraz: Hell's Gate Prison is a literal fortress, and you're sent in there to keep a terrorist group from breaking their leader out. The briefing even suggests that you focus on destroying their dropships, otherwise they'll have no way out.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Flying Fortress. Costs 50 requisition (a non-trivial amount!) and does little more than buzz around the center of the map looking really menacing. For the same price you could buy 50 gunships to defend your base.

* CheckpointStarvation: Die in the middle of a level and you have to restart from the get-go. This can become a point of frustration if you screw up a jump into a level hazard.

* TankGoodness: The Dreadnought Hovertank. Still absolutely helpless due to dumb AI, as otherwise it charges blindly ahead and gets itself killed.

* TheAlcatraz: Hell's Gate Prison. It's a literal fortress. MissionControl even advises you focus on taking out the dropships of the attacking force to ensure they have no way out.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Or in this case, '''Japanese Future Cop LAPD is HotterAndSexier''' as the Japanese cover features your [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2635942?pool_id=834 female]] [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2635953?pool_id=660 operator]] with blonde hair and a noticable clevage.

* FireBreathingWeapon: the flame-thrower, which while it has a shorter range that other weapons can still take down low flying aircraft.
* FungusHumongous: You'll eventually get to platforming over several giant mushrooms over a giant pit of radioactive waste.

-->'''AI:''' Meat is obsolete.

* JokeLevel: Accessed after beating all maps against a Difficulty 10 Sky Captain. [[spoiler: It is very similar to Proving Ground except more green, replaces all tanks with worms, helicopters with butterflies, turns the Super Tank into a SandWorm and the Flying Fortress into a giant bat. Towers become flowers. Sky Captain? A dragonfly or cocoon. All this insanity plays to hilarious music.]]

-->[Mutant shakily raises four hands hands. X-1 leans in closer.]

* PowerUp: Numerous 'reloaders' that can restore health or ammo to one of your weapons, some of them containing special superpowered ammo. It doesn't even try to hide the fact and just flat out calls them [[PowerUp Power Ups]].

* SchmuckBait: The fourth level tricks you with a switch that kills a civilian.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The final mission gives you the objective of apprehending a tech genius who's been causing economical havoc, but when you find him halfway in the level, it turns out his supercomputer has taken control of the whole area and must be put down.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Flying Fortress. Costs 50 requisition (a non-trivial amount!) and does little more than buzz around the center of the map looking really menacing. For the same price you could buy 50 gunships to defend your base.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The final mission has you putting down a rogue AI that has started turning people into an army of cyborgs. Sky Captain, the opponent in the versus/strategy mode, is an AI as well.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: One level has a miniboss that is a gigantic mutant bodyguard goon approximately twice the height of the X-1 (if not more), which is already around two to three times taller than your average human.

* CaliforniaCollapse: Civil War, super storm and an earth quake didn't go well with Los Angeles. The last one actually created an island which is used as a weapons test range.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Sky Captain, as his name suggests, uses a flying craft rather than an X-1 Alpha. This gives him a pretty significant mobility advantage in the cluttered battlegrounds, though he lacks the agility of the X-1's walker mode. He can also call in reinforcements remotely and even buy up bases the same way, both things the player can't do. In his defense, at least, all of these things ''are'' explained in the Precinct Assault introductory video, so you know what he's doing and how. Sky Captain also upgrades and gets stronger and smarter as you complete the increasing difficulties.
* CoOpMultiplayer: Fully cooperative, with two X-1 Alpha Pilots... who share their health bars. Oh boy.

* HollywoodCyborg: The rogue AI is putting together an army of them.

* LaughablyEvil: Sky Captain.

* LifeMeter: Of course it has a life meter! Worst part is though, it's ''shared'' in co-op...
* MercyKill: One of the scientists working on the rogue AI was... put up as an "example" to interlopers. You have to put him out of his misery to proceed.

-->'''MissionControl:''' Looks like those jump hydraulics are going to get a workout!

* PoliceBrutality: Nobody ''ever'' comes peacefully. Cue X-1 solving everything with absolutely ludicrous amounts of violence and a triple-figure body count.
** The X-1 is only called in when the situation escalates beyond the control of the normal police units. When it's called in, police use "Code X", meaning the situation is extremely hostile and requires lethal force to regain control. Which in this case means a transforming mecha armed with more firepower than some small nations. What are you expecting? It's ''[[AcceptableTargets Los Angeles]]''.

* [[NintendoHard Playstation Hard]]: For starters, every level is a MarathonLevel, and being killed causes you to start over from the beginning of the level. You also need to conserve and familiarize the weaponry, but at least, unlike the [[Videogame/StrikeSeries predecessor]], you don't have to refuel.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Sky Captain, as his name suggests, uses a flying craft rather than an X-1 Alpha. This gives him a pretty significant mobility advantage in the cluttered battlegrounds, though he lacks the agility of the X-1's walker mode. In more accurate terms, he also gets stronger, faster and smarter each time you kill him, and as the overall difficulty increases.
** He can also call in reinforcements remotely and even buy up bases the same way, both things the player can't do. In his defense, at least, all of these things ''are'' explained in the Precinct Assault introductory video, so you know what he's doing and how.

* PlatformGame: Jumping puzzles are present in several levels. No, really. Precise jumping can get you to weapon power ups too.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: 100 years after the game was made, Los Angeles has drowned in crime.

* MoreDakka: The starter primary weapon is a gatling cannon. Whilst it's not particularly powerful (at least, without a primary powerup reloader), it has a lot of ammo and it uses HitScan mechanics, so it's very easy to use.

A ThirdPersonShooter released in 1998, ''Future Cop: L.A.P.D.'' is a spinoff of sorts from the ''VideoGame/StrikeSeries'', following you, the pilot of the TransformingMecha X-1 Alpha and your coordinator. Your mission is simple: restore law and order to the hellhole that is the future-LA of 2098 with [[MoreDakka missiles, miniguns, mortar and grenade launchers, rockets, beams and mines]].

* TheAlcatraz: Hell's Gate Prison. It's a literal fortress.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Flying Fortress. Costs 50 requisition (a non-trivial amount!) and does little more than buzz around the center of the map looking really menacing.

* CaliforniaCollapse: Civil War, super storm and an earth quake didn't go well with Los Angeles. The last one actually created an island which is uses as a weapons test range.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Sky Captain, as his name suggests, uses a flying craft rather than an X-1 Alpha. This gives him a pretty significant mobility advantage in the cluttered battlegrounds. In more accurate terms, he also gets stronger, faster and smarter each time you kill him, and as the overall difficulty increases.
** He can also call in reinforcements remotely and even buy up bases the same way, both things the player can't do.

* DeathFromAbove: Sky Captain quotes it verbatim

* GunTwirling: After defeating the boss of the prison break mission, you're treated to a cutscene of a high noon showdown that ends with your mech twirling one of its gun-arms, cowboy-style.

* Laughably evil: Sky Captain.
* LifeMeter: Of course it has a life meter!

* MoreDakka: The starter primary weapon is a gatling cannon.
* OneManArmy: X-1 Alpha acts alone all the time.

* PrisonBreak: You have to foil one of these in the fifth or sixth mission, as a ''disturbingly'' well-armed terrorist group is rescuing their leader from the cells there, along with many of their brothers. Finishes with a ShowdownAtHighNoon-esque shootout for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV4R6EAaqPk end-level cutscene]].

* SpiritualPredecessor: Gee, doesn't Precinct Assault sound familiar? [[OlderThanTheyThink It's essentially DOTA before there was DOTA]] (although it is close to ''VideoGame/{{SMITE}}'' in terms of how it works.

* TwistEnding: Spoofed; after the final cutscene in the campaign you are informed that all the stuff you have done so happened ''on the same day'' and you get a metaphorical touch on the shoulder saying: "Now get some good sleep, tomorrow will be the same all over again."
* UpdatedRerelease: The computer version of the game adds a map for Precinct Assault called "La Cantina" and does some cosmetic or mechanical touch-ups here and there compared to the original Play Station release.

* DeflectorShields: The riot shield will destroy incoming psychical projectiles and cause huge damage to anything in its radius.

Think again, buddy.

A ThirdPersonShooter released in 1998, ''Future Cop: L.A.P.D.'' is a spinoff of sorts from the ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'' family, following you, the pilot of the TransformingMecha X-1 Alpha and your coordinator. Your mission is simple: restore law and order to the hellhole that is the future-LA of 2098 with [[MoreDakka missiles, miniguns, mortar and grenade launchers, rockets, beams and mines]].

A ThirdPersonShooter released in 1998, '''''Future Cop: L.A.P.D.''''' is a spinoff of sorts from the ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'' family, following you, the pilot of the TransformingMecha X-1 Alpha and your coordinator. Your mission is simple: restore law and order to the hellhole that is the future-LA of 2098 with [[MoreDakka missiles, miniguns, mortar and grenade launchers, rockets, beams and mines]].

* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the toughest missions has you putting down a rogue AI that has started turning people into an army of cyborgs. Sky Captain, the opponent in the versus/strategy mode, is an AI as well.

* EvilIsHammy: Sky Captain.

* GunTwirling: After defeating one boss, you're treated to a cutscene of your mech twirling one of its gun-arms, cowboy-style.

* SpiritualPredecessor: Gee, doesn't Precinct Assault sound familiar? [[OlderThanTheyThink It's essentially DOTA before there was DOTA]] (although it is close to [[SMITE Smite]] in terms of how it works.

A ThirdPersonShooter released in 1998, '''''Future Cop: L.A.P.D.''''' is a spinoff of sorts from the ''DesertStrike'' family, following you, the pilot of the TransformingMecha X-1 Alpha and your coordinator. Your mission is simple: restore law and order to the hellhole that is the future-LA of 2098 with [[MoreDakka missiles, miniguns, mortar and grenade launchers, rockets, beams and mines]].

A ThirdPersonShooter released in 1998, '''''Future Cop: LAPD''''' is a spinoff of sorts from the ''DesertStrike'' family, following you, the pilot of the TransformingMecha X-1 Alpha and your coordinator. Your mission is simple: restore law and order to the hellhole that is the future-LA of 2098 with [[MoreDakka missiles, miniguns, mortar and grenade launchers, rockets, beams and mines]].

* JokeLevel: Accessed after beating all maps against a Difficulty 10 Sky Captain. [[spoiler: It is very similar to Testing Range except more green, replaces all tanks with worms, helicopters with butterflies, turns the Super Tank into a SandWorm and the Flying Fortress into a giant bat. Towers become flowers. Sky Captain? A dragonfly or cocoon. All this insanity plays to hilarious music.]]

* AwesomeYetPractical: Most - if not all - of the weapons are well-balanced, and each is useful in its own way.

* WeaponizedLandmark: The ''very first mission'' sees you smashing your way through [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Park Griffith Park]] to destroy an ''observatory'' that has been converted into a gigantic cannon, and is being used to take potshots at passing airliners and other commercial aircraft. Later on, you must destroy a flying UFO-esque restaurant that has been turned into a giant weapons platform.