The Playstation port of the original Time Crisis was a huge commercial success, so Namco wanted a sequel. However, porting Time Crisis II (which had been released in arcades in 1997) to the PS1 wasn't an option, so they had Flying Tiger Entertainment develop it instead. The result was Time Crisis Project Titan. which was released in 2001. The game features largely the same gameplay mechanics as in the original but with some new additions. Firstly, during boss battles you can choose where you want to hide. It's important to select the right spot as you won't be able to hit the boss at all if you choose wrong, and getting it right means you can shoot at the boss before they know where to shoot at you. The other big change is that you can now tell if an enemy bullet will hit you, as the bullet will be red. This isn't as good as the system used in TCII but it's something, at least. Another change is that you start with 4 life points instead of 3. This is incredibly useful since to one credit this game you have to beat 4 stages, whilst in the original game there were only 3. One little known feature in the original TC was that, if you somehow managed to shoot forty times in a row without missing, you'd get an extra life point. This feature is also in this game, but you only have to get 30 hits (or 20 on easy) to get an extra life. I managed to do this in the first stage. The reason I went for the extra life point is because this game is hard. Stages 1 and 2 aren't too bad, but from 3 and onwards it becomes a bit of a nightmare. I've never managed to beat the stage 3 boss without taking a hit, and usually every time I'm left scratching my head wondering how I got hit by it. The final boss is also really tough, although I guess Wild Dog's girly screams make up for it. I still don't think I quite get the plot for this game. So the president of Caruba gets assassinated...and then (15 year old spoilers) turns out nope, he's somehow not dead, he's fine. I mean in the intro he quite clearly gets shot...did he somehow know to pretend to die or something? And then the less said about Wild Dog's robot army the better.
