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The Mounted Machine Gun is a weapon featured in Time Crisis 4 and Time Crisis 5.
Overview[]
Giorgio Bruno manning mounted machine gun
Luke O'Neil and Marc Godart manning mounted machine guns
As V.S.S.E. agents Giorgio Bruno and Evan Bernard chase down the truck on-board a helicopter piloted by Captain William Rush of the U.S. Internal Surveillance Group's Special Operations Division, Giorgio Bruno uses a mounted machine gun to neutralize enemy opposition guarding the truck and interfering the mission to pursue it. Evan Bernard subsequently uses the same weapon to destroy enemy anti-aircraft vehicles and helicopters occupying an Air Force Base in Colorado, and stun Wild Dog when he used a grappling hook to snare onto the helicopter the V.S.S.E. agents are on.
Luke O'Neil and Marc Godart on the other hand, also employ mounted machine guns on-board the helicopter against the Wild Dog Organization forces in a similar manner, though they later switched to the mounted rocket launcher to destroy a ballistic missile vehicle along with the anti-aircraft vehicles and drudges guarding it.
Gameplay[]
Mounted machine gun bullets in flight
The mounted machine gun is a mounted variant of the standard machine gun and a vehicle-only version of the heavy machine gun, only utilized during Stage 1 Area 2 and Stage 3 Area 1 in Time Crisis 4 or almost of the entirety of Stage 2 in Time Crisis 5. In essence, it functions exactly like the machine gun incarnation in Time Crisis II, where in it has unlimited ammo and it was later discarded once the player characters require a specialized weapon to take down a vehicle.
As it is a special weapon, the player cannot change to the mounted machine gun in the weapon switching system introduced in Time Crisis 3, they have to discard the mounted machine gun after its use.
Tripod mounted machine gun left side
Tripod mounted machine gun right side
A similar-looking weapon with the spade grips replaced with large curved grips is called the Tripod Mounted Machine Gun (Fixed Machine Gun (
Statistics[]
- Rate of fire (rounds per second): 15 (Time Crisis 4), 10 (Time Crisis 5)
- Special attributes: infinite ammo, available in certain sections
- Ammunition appearance: Purple tip with yellow casing (Time Crisis 4), gray tip with dark brown casing (Time Crisis 5)
Advantages[]
- Unlimited rounds
- Very high rate of fire
- Fully-automatic, fires as long as the trigger is pulled
Disadvantages[]
- Only available on certain sections mentioned earlier, then discarded afterwards
- Cannot be carried. Hence, players need to dismount from the weapon if they need to go to another location (Time Crisis 4 FPS only)
Models[]
Each character used the same model of the mounted machine gun throughout the series:
Protagonists/Supporting[]
- Giorgio Bruno, Evan Bernard and William Rush: FN GAU-21 aircraft heavy machine gun (extensively-modified Browning M2) [tripod mounted version for the last character]
- Luke O'Neil and Marc Godart: Browning M2
See Also[]
- Automatic Cannon - Another helicopter mounted weapon in Time Crisis 4 with similar properties