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Armed, Dangerous, and FUN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is about one thing: fun. It is outrageous, it has very unrealistic weapons (Shark gun, world's smallest black hole, etc.", and it has a ragtag group known as the Lionhearts. I'm not sure how far through the game I am at this point, but I can't put it down. The jet pack missions are just awesome.

The game won't win any awards for graphics, but they do the trick. No complaints there. The voice work is some of the best I've ever heard. And the sound is top-notch.

The cut-scenes that move the story along are a treat...parodying star wars among other things.

If you just wanna play an old-school, blast 'em up game, this is it. I highly recommend this one.

Just plain fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Armed and Dangerous is just plain fun. Pure and simple. From the moment you start the game, you're running through worlds and blowing up stuff left and right. With a compliment of crazy guns (Shark gun- sends out a land shark to eat your enemies, Topsy Turvy weapon- turns the world upside down, etc.) you're in for a stitch-in-your-side, laugh-until-you-cry gameplay experience. The cutscenes will have you rolling on the floor too and even the idle saylines by your buddies are hilarious ("Q, do you ever run out of ammo?" "No, never." "Me neither. Weird isn't it? I reload sometimes but I have limitless ammo. It's creepy!"

While it's not the prettiest game on the market now, who cares! The most important thing is that it's FUN! All the weapons have their own satifying results so you hardly get bored with just shooting one kind of gun. You'll want to use all of them! The AI is decent enough and make for great kills.

Finally, and this is very cool of Planet Moon and Lucas Arts, you can download levels at a later time through Xbox Live! That's right, Planet Moon will release a number of levels for you to download and play! Awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you Planet Moon and Lucas Arts for making such a great and fun game.

So if I were you, I'd go get this game! It's worth every penny!

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.

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.

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.

Creatively Awesome Game That Is Fun To Play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a really, really great game. The story is so entertaining that you can't wait to get through the levels to see what the four heroes are going to do next! I can't even bring myself to sell this one even after playing through it for the third time. The weaponry alone makes this game more than a bargain. Using the different weapons there is a variety of ways to win the different levels. My favorite has to be the landshark gun. Also, there is over an hour of cutscene movies over the 21 levels. There are also bonus missions that get unlocked as you play through the game. This is a definite keeper for the serious "death and destruction" player. Here's hoping for a sequel with multiplayer.

Armed, Dangerous, Hilarious

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"Armed and Dangerous" is an immensely quirky and amusing game that fuses 3rd person action and uproarious comedy into one entertaining, if imperfect, package.

The game casts you as Roman, a handkerchief-wearing bandit who is absorbed by the world's struggle against a tyrannical king when he would rather just steal expensive things. He is joined by a tea-fueled droid called "Q," a surly Scottish mole named Jonesy, and a blind seer named Rexus. The storyline itself isn't anything to write home about, but the characters are great. The cinematics are usually so funny that they're worth watching several times, and they even have a kind of claymation quality that feels entirely appropriate. Unfortunately, the gags do become generally less amusing as the game progresses, but not by a significant margin.

Jonesy and "Q" are not characters restricted to the cinematics, though. They are featured prominently during gameplay as well. They provide support and covering fire for Roman, and Roman can even issue them a few basic orders, but the two often feel like set dressing that moves. They do not serve any strategic or tactical purpose, and even if they are killed in battle they magically reappear in the next mission. Even so, their inclusion is appreciated, as they banter and offer some pretty good one-liners, and occasionally do help out when things are rough.

The game's action is visceral and entertaining - and as this one's an action title that's certainly saying something. Aiming is a snap on the Xbox version, and you'll never feel restricted by the controller response time. Shooters do not usually shine on console systems, but this one does. On top of that, "Armed and Dangerous" provides some of the most inventive, original, and downright satisfying weapons ever seen in a game of this type. Its tone allows for weapons that can literally launch sharks at your enemies (that then burst from the ground and snap up the unwary opposition), create small black holes, and even turn the entire world upside down for a few seconds at a time. Jet packs also come into play, and allow Roman to leap and glide through the air while causing all sorts of mayhem.

The game's action is undermined a bit by its bland and repetitive mission objectives, though. Too often you will find yourself rescuing peasants or demolishing a set number of buildings. What's more, you'll find yourself gunning down the same dog-faced enemies over and over again, with few exceptions. While all of this is fun in small or medium-sized doses, lengthy sessions become very monotonous. To top it off, "Armed and Dangerous" just isn't very challenging. The so-called Flemming machinegun hardly ever runs out of ammunition, and enemies are of the run-and-gun variety. Only one of the game's missions ups the ante, and it goes too far in the other direction - it's downright frustrating.

"Armed and Dangerous" provides some gorgeous terrain graphics, and its characters are likewise good-looking. There are clipping issues, but it's not something that detracts from the overall experience. Sound effects are likewise inspiring, and the voice talent assembled for the game is excellent as well. The score effectively conveys a comedic world that is a sort of interplanetary stand-in for rural England, and it provides a good, quirky backdrop to the action (though glitches can sometimes cause it to loop).

All in all, "Armed and Dangerous" is quite satisfying. It has some serious flaws that keep it from achieving a classic status, but it's a good solid game that I recommend with few reservations. Cheers!

Final Score: B

Monty python meets halo!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was awesome, sure it got repetitve at times, but I liked blowing stuff up along with the outrageous weapons, the land shark gun was hilarious. I think it was pretty original, I rented it, but if someone asked me about buying it, I would say yes also, because I am sure the online stuff is fun as well. I rented for 7 days and was addicted to it. Intense action, again, I am not an expert gamer, I like games that get to the action quick, the in-between scenes were hilarious!

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.

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.

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