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THIS is what gaming should be

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've read over the other reviews regarding Armed and Dangerous and each will detail some flaw in the game and then go on to say "Who cares the game was great." I believe that this is the essence of great PC gaming: when the experience as a whole outweighs the sum of it's parts and something that the industry as a whole should finally catch onto!

Too often we see gorgeous games that are just as boring as hell to play(Dungeon seige anyone?) Armed and dangerous is Fun. It doesn't have forty different guns because you don't need them. Sniper rifle, machine gun with a generous clip a rocket launcher and a Landshark gun for laughs. What else do you need?

I think a multiplayer will be released soon enouigh and if the developer is smart, they'll make it a free download. A&D II should be great fun.

PLay this game! I laughed out loud more than once! You will too.

Armed and Funny as Heck

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Armed and Dangerous is one of the best action games on the market now. It's got your top-notch action, weapons, and characters. But A&D's star quality is its hilarity. There are so many one-liners it's hard to catch them all. But on complaint of Armed and Dangerous is that there are to few primary weapons, not a bad enough point to discourage you to buy it, but there are so many secondary weapons that I thought they could use a few more rocket launchers or assault rifles. But overall out of ten I'd give Armed and Dangerous a 9.6. Thank you.

A great rental, but only some will want to keep it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Armed and Dangerous is a shoot-em-up blasting game that boasts repetitive plots, but a great array of weaponry and quite destructable environments!

Your gang is the Lionhearts, made up of a fighter, a robot, a mole and a blind guy. You would be happy hanging out at the pub and occasionally causing trouble, but instead you're caught up in an anarchist plot to overthrow the current King.

There are some VERY long cut scenes in this game that try to give it a plot. However, most of the time during them, while not joking about how the mouths never matched the speech, we were caught up in figuring out why a Scottish mole and an English bandit in Roman gear all seemed to have Australian accents. Yes, they played bagpipe music in the background to give it atmosphere, a touch I really enjoyed. But it didn't help with the accents :)

Still, a game like this is hardly ever about plot and has everything to do with simply blasting things. And there is PLENTY to blast here. There are five types of environments, from woods to frozen tundra, and each is full of trees, machinery, buildings etc to blast into rubble. Each is full of monsters whose sole aim is to march towards you to be blasted into rubble.

To keep things a bit interesting, you're given some great weapons to do this with. Now, these weapons are NOT on the level of Ratchet & Clank which I have to say comes out with the best weapons (and upgrades) that you could have in a game. But you do get rocket launchers, other standard weapons, and a few specials. One is the topsy-turvy gun which is great fun. It temporarily reverses gravity just in the screen area and while you cling to the "ground" your enemies go flying in the air. When gravity resets they plummet to the ground in a great SMASH.

The other weapon deserves some real praise. This is the Land Shark. It amazes me how many people do NOT remember the original Saturday Night Live skits about the Land Shark ("Candy-gram!") which this was probably based on. But in any case, the land shark is a fin that slowly coasts around the terrain, looking for a victim. When it spots one, it slowly submurges under the ground ... until ... POW! It jumps up out of the ground and grabs the screaming victim around the waist. As the victim cries for help, the shark pulls him (or her) back into the briny deep ... it's great! Those of us who grew up with Jaws will have nightmares all over again :)

Still, even with the thrill of the land shark, this did get repetitive after a while. You're blowing up things in a snowy location ... you're blowing up things in a foresty location. There's no multiplayer, so even if you finish the game, all you can do is start at the beginning again and blow up more things. If you really like blowing up things, this might be great! But for most of us this isn't worth it for a multi-week-endeavour.

I'd really recommend renting this one for a week first. See how much you enjoy it. If you're thrilled, by all means, buy it! But it might be that you finish the game in the week, and are ready to move on to something new. It's best to know that on the price of a rental vs the full purchase price.

Very Hilarious

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the funniest game out there but dont worry it is not one of those kinda easy games. The weapons are even funny also such as you can use a gun Called the "Land-Shark Gun" which once fired you can see a fin jutting through the ground and it goes under the enimies and it eats them like when you see a seal being eaten by a shark on the discovery channel.

Fanstic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i receviced Armed and Dangerous last christmas as one of my gifts from my big brother and its a super game. Armed and Dangerous is a game that is based on a series of missions. In the missions you will have to do tasks like destory stuff with bombs. But theres more to the game than just that. A.A.D. has fanstic graphics. Great Control. Great Anamations. Great cut sceens. You can blow up certion buildings and if there are enemies in windows they will get instictlly die. I find it cool that you can blow up buildings with you gun. You are not alone in the game because the main chachter has 2 friends that join in the action. Overall heres how I rate A.A.D. 300 Stars. Thanks.

aren't many games like this, man, IT'S F***'IN AWSOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is un doubtedly one of the GREATEST games around.When I first saw the game I thought it looked pretty bad, so I went to lucasarts.com to learn more about it,after learning some more about it,it looked fairly decent and I bought it a gamestop for a generous price of 8 dollars and was in great condition. Not only does it have great action, but is armed with a excellent sense of humor, this game got a 9-10 from xbox's official magazine and got the game of the week award! this is guarenteed to make your adrenelin pumping and keep you laughing at every cutscene and every remark the characters say.and once you beat it, it's not over yet, repaly the levels to find tokens that unlock new levels, and cheats. The fun never ends!

+ love the pub/ saving system

+ cut scenes has great animation and dailouge

+ 21 action packed adrenelin pumping level

+ rich plot

+ token system

+ great characters

- the game does end :(

overall 10-10,5-5, 2 thumbs and big toes up , a must buy for any gamer! Get it while it's still in the stores!

Good fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty much typical and repeative but the best thing about this are the dialogue and cutscenes, which are pretty funny. It can get frustrating at times but what games don't these days. This is definally worth buying if the price is right.

fun and hilarious!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is basiclly a spoof of Star Wars. You play as a scottish guy named Roman. You travel with three friends. One of them is a blind, short scientist. The weopons are hilarous. One gun shoots a shark in the ground which repeatdly eats enemies. There are some cool bombs to. If the games the right price you should snag it fast. I got mine at game crazy really cheap. So go out and get it.

I am Armed and Dangerous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Armed and Dangerous is a great game. The story is okay, but the main point of buying this game is for the humor and destroying everything in sight. The weapons are crazy and destructive. For example, The Shark Gun is the scenes from Jaws into a gun. The big letdowns are that there is no multiplayer and you can only play as one character while you have a whole squad. This game is still really good. You should buy it.

Armed and Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I waited with baited breath for this game. Lucasarts and Planet Moon Studios, who gave us the wonderfully original and funny Giants: Citizen Kabuto working together! It should be great right? Well, in essence, no. The best part of the game are the hilarious cut scenes that introduce the characters. These are very well written and laugh out loud funny. The game play is uninspired. Sure, you get to use the infamous land shark gun and the "corkscrew" weapon to literally turn the world upside down, but you get to use these power ups few and far in between. Most of the time you will be using your trusted machine gun to mow down endless waves of mooks. The game is extremely uninspired and gets repetitive within 5 minutes. I would rather buy a DVD with the cut scenes from the game than pay $50 for this game. Sorry, but it just falls well short.

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