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I should have rented The Thing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For a game that hyped gun play the amount of HTH fighting is too much and too hard. They make the game too hard to play on purpose it seems. The lack of an auto save mode is also hard to take - I actually assumed it had one and was stunned when about 2 hrs of game play was wasted when I switched the game back on... The mini-games spread thru the game are also pretty dumb - they serve no purpose and are just annoying. If you want to play a shooter game - just play Assault on the Control Room a few more times on Legendary or Heroic level(You know what I'm talking about;)

superb

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: August 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is max payne, only 10 times better looks, sound and gameplay. It's an amazing game with a great story line

Don't listen to these Whiners

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics. The story line is not the greatest but whatever I usually din't buy the games for the story line. With a bit of practice the controls can be mastered. One aspect of the game I do like is that it helps you get a feel for the controls by way of mini-games in the start of the game. It does have the slow mow and the target cycling is useful. I have been playing this for awhile, more than the 2 days that most of these "raters" have played it. All in all this game is more than worth the money I payed for it. I usually don't like these types of games but this one is an exception.

Horrrible controls!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The story line is your basic renegade cop. The graphics are good. The controls however are horrible!!! You can't control your aim, you have to pull the left trigger to automatically lock onto a target, thus if there are multiple enemies around you have to click the left trigger then fire, click the left trigger then fire,... repeatedly. It would have been a lot better to have a crosshair and move it with the right thumbstick. To me this game is unplayable. Get Max Payne instead it is the same basic plot and a great game!!!

Do not waste your money on this game.

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

1) Take a penny.
2) Flip it.
3) Note that there are 2 possible outcomes to flipping a penny.

That is twice as many outcomes as are possible in Dead to Rights. Everything is scripted beyond reason.

For example, when you fight certain bosses, you lose your weapons. What the heck? And you cannot carry extra ammo for your weapons, but you can carry something like 9 weapons. Gee, great logic there.

You would be better off donating your money to a worthy cause, and then flipping a penny, rather then playing DtR. Far more interesting and playable.

My ten cent review for a worthless game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'll make this quick. The graphics are ok, the story sucks, and the game play is worse than AIDS. If you like the crime genre try Max Payne, cause this game Blows.

Exactly what you would expect...and less.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Look, you've read the reviews on this game. Yes, it is a complete rip-off of max payne. Yes, the controls are whack (the pan option with your right thumbstick is inverted...inverted? yes, inverted. I never got used to that.). They also use the targeting and 'bullet-time' patent of Max Payne fame(and not very well). The graphics are so-so. The story is not even worth mentioning if you ask me.

All-in-all, I would suggest to any XBOX owner to pass this one over and wait for the holiday rush to begin. This game is nothing more than a bone to throw at us to get us ready. I will, however, give props to the disarming and using enemies as shields feature. Pretty cool, I must admit. Also, when your done with your human shield, you simply plug him in the head. How brutal!

Don't Bother with this garbage....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game a chance... A big chance. Went and purchased it outright before renting. I do that most of the time with great success. My last two choices have been poor to say the least. I wasn't as disappointed with the camera angles, controls, or graphics as the other reviewers indicated. What got me was the content. I'm stuck at about the halfway pointof the game [I'm guessing]. But for the majority of the time I have played, it has been hand to hand fighting in prison. If I wanted to get a program where I just have to beat the stuffing out of people, I'd drop back to my UFC game disk. I mean come on... All the ads and promos you see for this game are the great weapons and such that are available. Don't get me wrong, they're there in the start of the game, but once you get locked up in prison, all you got is your "dukes".

Too bad there isn't a 0 stars rating, that would be my take on this POS. I'll be putting mine up for auction soon...

Max Payne + Time Crisis + Syphon Filter =

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I think the people complaining about the controls aren't really catching onto what the programmers intended. Inverted pitch. It takes a little time to get used to, sure, but so does any game with unique controls. And I'll admit I'd get a little confused during the heat of battle when I was alternating Dead to Rights with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but it was Dead to Rights' controls I had grown accustomed to and Buffy that had me cursing under my breath. So it's not an insurmountable task, it's just a matter of adjustment.

Anyhoo, I am a Hong Kong movie fan first, video gamer second. So this, the second game in the current trend of integrating John Woo physics into action games, had a lot to live up to. And while it's not as deep as I might have hoped, it serves up frenetic enough action to keep me coming back for more. This isn't Max Payne, this isn't SOCOM, this isn't much like anything you've played before, so don't expect that. Like I said in the header, the best comparison I could possibly make to previous games is an amalgamation of Max Payne's slow-motion gimmick, Syphon Filter's targeting system and Time Crisis' everything else (which makes sense, with both games coming from Namco), with maybe even a dash of Die Hard Arcade thrown in.

This is an arcade-style game through and through. Fast twitch action, no Zelda-style adventure, no mind-bending puzzles, no hang ups on realism, and plenty of addictive challenges. The shooting stages are just about what you'd expect. Syphon Filter with a slow-mo button. And I know that there've been lots of gripes about the melee combat, but I actually found it fun, myself. While there are no new moves to learn to build up your weak combo arsenal, the game is challenging enough that the task of taking on a room full of thugs all at once really tends to distract you from the fact that you're punching and kicking every guy in the exact same manner. And another big reported flaw were the multiple mini games. Well I'll say that the button-tapping sessions were redundant and annoying, but I found the timing challenges, "Crazy Stick"-style mazes and the first-person shooting games to break up the pace nicely. It might annoy you if you're all about the shooting aspect, but if you're like me and enjoy varied gameplay, it's refreshing.

And at risk of being obvious, Dead to Rights should under no circumstances be played by children. I know it will, with the insane lopsidedness of the "irresponsible parent" to "caring parent" ratio (and ten year-olds playing Grand Theft Auto 3 can attest to that), but I thought I'd say it anyway.

So the gist of it is it's a fun action game, no more. I wasn't immediately impressed, but I went back for a second play-through with no promise or expectations of anything new, so I must be hooked.

The qualities of "Dead to Rights"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What's hot:
-The action is so darn insane
-The thought of minigames and how fun they are
-Insane gameplay

What's not:
-Gameplay gets confusing sometimes
-Graphics could use some work

What's strange:
-Why must it get so frustratingly hard everytime you progress?

The awards for:
Best minigame-Dance and Distract(The one w/ the stripper)
Best move-The Human Shield
Best supporting character-Shadow(the dog)

The overall:
If you liked Max Payne, you haven't seen anything yet. Once you play Dead to Rights, your life will be changed forever.

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