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Very Poor Controls

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has a great concept but the game play and controls really stink! It's a 3rd person perspective shooter game with very poor camera views. Most of the time you won't even know where the enemy is firing at you from. To make things worse, the right thumbstick, which is used to control the camera view, is backwards, pressing right makes the camera go left and vise versa. The graphics are definitely PS2 graphics, this game shouldn't have been released for the Xbox. Overall, if you're looking for a great shooting/adventure game, I'd recommend Splinter Cell.

Good DIFFICULT game with some flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the game once the game's price went down. I've heard fairly good things about it, and it is fairly good, with a few exceptions. The graphics and sounds are spectacular compared to Max Payne, its friendly rival. The disarm cut-scenes are also incredibly good to watch. The storyline does not resemble Max Payne in its darkness quality, but rather it is story of justice in the vein of Die Hard movies, with some goofy humor involved.

Now to the bad parts...
This game is incredibly hard, and I mean, very, very hard. The flood of enemies against you are numerous, and they occur whenever you are close to fighting a boss -- sometimes. Second, the enemies in a gunfight are particularly cheesy. For example, the enemy can fire directly at you with a pistol, but you can't hit him when you are directly in front of them. Furthermore, the controls are awkward, unlike Max Payne. They are not intuitive. Lastly, the camera in the game is usually always stuck, so you get blindsided very often.

Overall, it's worth buying it cheap, but do not get into the Max Payne frame of mind.

My god, could they have made this game ANY harder?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well, i had heard stuff about this game from a few friends of mine before i got it. It went along all the same lines: "Holy hell, this game is hard, mike". Yet I payed no attention. a good challenge can keep you going for a while and makes the experience more addictive, which is what we're all looking for, right? Well, i played thru the first level and a half with little to no difficulty and just assumed that my friends were horrible at this game. Then it takes a dramatic increase in difficulty, forcing you to take out wave after wave of shotgun toting goons with a couple of pistols and kill seemingly invincible bosses with your bare hands. To give you a slightly better idea of how godd*mn hard this game is, i bought it in december 2002 and have not beaten it to this day (I think i'm on mission 8/15 or something...barely halfway thru). Everyone enjoys a challenge but this game reeeeeally pushes it. I hate having to redo things in exess, which you have to do thanks to the FANTASTIC save system this game has, being that you can only save when you get to the next part of the level and if you die, you go back to the beginning of the part you are on. you'll get a little farther each time you die, you'll die again, start over, repeat. I'm sure if you're some kind of freaking game wizard, you will have more fun with this game than i do, but if you are a mere mortal like myself, go for something else unless you're REALLY patient.

Could change a few things.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game was ok, but some parts were very hard to get through. They should have had different difficulty levels of play (like easy) the controls were a bit slow also. I would be fighting someone and they would take me out because of a slow response time, not because of anything else. If you could live with all that stuff, than the game is good choice. If you like shooting, fighting and fast paced action this is a game to try.

Better than Payne.. Good story line

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dead to Rights is a superb, challenging game. Very similar to Max Payne but better.. I personally didn't like Max Payne once I finished it I was disappointed in the content or lack there of. Dead To Rights is the Payne just loaded with more options and capabilities. Truely love playing this game. The only downfall to this game is the camera angle. Its horrible, once you get the hang of the camera its not that bad. Also it needs a multiplayer option which would make this game more interesting. But I would consider this game a must buy. Great fun!

Nice idea, but seriously boring after a while

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There are a lot of fun aspects to this game, including the slo-motion dive and the variety of fighting tactics, but there are many points when the bosses and sitiuations are RIDICULOUSLY difficulty. They aren't challenging...they're just complicated by the mediocre controls and the lame game operation. You could spend at least 1hr. trying to beat some of the bosses or passing certain 50-1 matchups. These time-wasters really take away from any of the mostly weak story behind the game. Don't waste your money.

Wasted Potential

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for immersive gameplay, good story and graphics...then don't buy this game. At first I thought this would be a Max Payne knock-off, which would be fine because that was a great game. Unfortunately this game can't even be put into the same category.

First off, the graphics are just ok. There's nothing wrong with them, but I'm playing on an X Box here. The graphics should be great. I would even have to say the the graphics on Max Payne for the PS2 are better. The introduction was interesting and visually very good. It's too bad that this doesn't carry on into the rest of the game.

The storyline is moderately cheesy. If I'm playing a Mature rated game (which this is) then I'd prefer to have a story made for adults. Often I would find myself thrown into a situation where I just had to kill everyone in sight. Once that was done, more bad guys appear and then a few more after that. All the while I'm not even sure why I'm there in the first place.

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the controls on this game. I agree with everything said. It didn't take very long to learn all the controls at all. Rather the controls make this game much more difficult than it has to be and sometimes just make no sense.

On the outside this game appears as though it would be very good. And I suppose that it had the potential to be very good. It's too bad that so many things were overlooked and made this into a fairly bad game.

More annoying than fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hands-down, the most annoying game I have ever played. Graphics look like a Playstation clone, controls are all but impossible (especially the camera), and even the storyline isn't very interesting. Targeting bad guys was difficult and fighting seemed like random luck more than skill. I was hoping during the tutorial that the game would get more interesting, but it's basically run, shoot (or punch), duck and wait for the next cut scene to see what next seemingly repetitive ten guys you'll have to runaround for 10 minutes trying to take out one at a time.
I gave the game away after three days. Please don't waste your [$$] like I did.

Gameboy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Let me put it this way. There are four bad guys in a room. You get to dive on the bad guy in the middle while shooting the one next to him in slow motion, and -using his own weapon- disarm the now-without-backup dude with a cool move and immediately turn him into a human shield to protect yourself while killing the third guy behind him. At the end, before getting rid of the now useless human shield guy with one shot in the head, you will let your dog Shadow kill the fourth guy.

You might think that this should be an easy game then. No way! Try playing the same almost-impossible zone for three times just because you could not pick the freaking lock at the end. Your hands will sweat while trying to pick the lock the fourth time. This game is a masterpiece. It has a lot common with Max Payne, it is only simply way better.

hated it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

bad, unoriginal plots, poor acting, [weak] story, and bad game play makes this one of the worst games I have played on the x-box (seconded only by prisoner of war). This game is a blatant attempt at ripping off Max Payne. I had high hopes but was let down as soon as we got to the dancing stripper scene. That was [weak] and a complete waste of my valuable bad guy killing time. Once you get passed the strip tease you enter an arcade style shooter where enemies just keep pouring out as you attemt to punch and kick, and then in comes "shotgun man" and then another tough guy and then some more and finally you are chasing the big boss down the street as thugs jump out from everywhere. The controls are backwards and make handling really frustrating. I recomend the thing or halo if you want some destructive "kill the bad guys" fun.

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