Virtua Cop

The player takes on the role of a police officer in the first-person perspective and shoots criminals with a light gun to advance in the game, with penalties for shooting civilians. The player can also shoot powerups that grant him a weapon or a life. The weapon is lost if the player is hit, but not if he shoots a civilian. Virtua Cop stood out for its use of polygon graphics, which were later also used in House of the Dead and Time Crisis, instead of the two-dimensional sprites common in previous games of the same genre. It is also one of the first games in which the player could shoot through glass. Its name derives from this graphic style, which was already used in Virtua Fighter, Virtua Striker and Virtua Racing.