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A nice surprise – A shooter with a funny story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Play as the character Roman accompanied by his two friends: complete a series of missions across 5 lands to find the Book of Rule and reverse the Evil Curse upon the Land. This game is a solid shooter with very creative and entertaining weapons and equipment to accomplish your goals. Controls and aiming are well implemented for a challenging experience which allows the player to improve their skills throughout the campaign. The story is truly funny with some good laugh out loud momments. Almost every combat scenario is interleaved with a cutscene giving the player a rest and a chuckle. Fans of Monty Python and South Park will appreciate this humor. It is hard to put this game down once you have started. The graphics are great with only rare frame rate issues. The sound work promotes a great sense of immersion and the music is perfect all the way through – I actually played the whole campaign with the music at 100% volume. There are no weak spots in this game. The replay value is moderate: Try to find all the tokens, the cheats, and try to complete the campaign with the difficulty setting turned up. I really enjoyed this game. Parental Guide: age 18 and over for extreme violoence.

Good Fun and Good Humour

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is good fun. The graphics are not the best that are available; however, this is made up with good humour between scenes. The variety of weapons are also inventive.

I gave it 4 stars for the humour particularly. For me, it didn't receive the 5th star only because of the graphics.

Overall, a fun game. A good renter.

Call it a 4.5 rounded down

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What can I say, absolutely great fun and laughter. A shooter that doens't take itself too seriously, finally. Good sound and decent graphics go well with a great and humorous story. If you have a sense of humor and like shooting things, then get this game. Like most shooters, its replay value goes down so you might want to get it a little cheaper, but a hoot to play. Be ready to play by yourself though as it is a single player game.

Meh...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It does have some very homerous elements in the game.It did make me laugh out loud a few times. But other than that it is very boring.
1. You run through a set path shooting enemies
2. The cool weapons have limited ammo
3.It is over the top hard for a simple game
4. the graphics are terrible

If anyhting rent it to see the jokes then don't waste you money

Great up to the Point where the plot gets good...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its good, the action is really intense but the weapons are uneven and there is NOT 17 weapons at all.

The Weapons:
The weapons are either One hit kill (Includes Explosions), Rapid Versions of weapons, Sharks, or just a one shot rifle. Either way the game allows you to beat it with Halo-Like (Except the First Person) Third Person Shooting. Mostly all bombs are for scripted areas and thats it, or they just throw eneies into a Hole or the Sky.

The Story:
Yeah the story is good all except the ending, but not everything is bad. The game is ment to be hillarious and I'm not going to ruin anything...

The Videos:
Terrible... The Cutscenes are not as good as the Game itself! But still effective and not blurry except for once...

The rEPLAY VALUE is nil, playing the game is good but nothing changes for the better and NO BOSSES exist at all! Objectives are not connected to the story, and the enviroments are closed in and patheticly built.

Overall: ~~Ehh, its okay but a 50 50 chance you'll like it so its a 5/10

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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.

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.

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.

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