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Only Gimmicks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is all aobut the gimmicks and that is its only star. the same is way too difficult to even try and get past the second board. i rented it for a week and played it once i also rented blinx and found it was one of the best platformers ever. don't play this game play halo or max payne. unless u r interested in gimicks

DEAD IS RIGHT!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was really disapointed at how bad this game is.First off,I'm thinking the great Max Payne game plus bone cracking disarms.I put the game on and what I get is bad control,bad camera angles and and a cheesy target system.A challenging game I like,but in this game it's ridiculiously hard in every level,to stay alive.I known this only because I have a level select cheat and all the stages are cheap.This game gets 1 star for the idea of mixing the disarms,which are sweet when you're lucky enough to pull one off,together with shootouts.The graphics are too cartoonish and not gritty like Max Payne.This started with good ideas and wound up a seriously flawed game.Mabey next time,they'll get it right.It does'nt come close to the awesomeness that is Max Panye!

Worst game ever made

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is quite possibly the most frustrating and most poorly constructed title for the xbox. I would rather play azurik over and over again then to so much as pick up a controller with this game in my xbox. First of all, the controls are horrible, I mean who has ever heard of a shooter where the 'A' button fires, when there are 2 triggers on the joystick. The cameras are awful, when i push left the camera goes right. Also, the game is impossible, and not fun at all, sure the first few levels or ok, but boring, but after that it is just way too hard. I have already cracked the game into 5 pieces, so that I could somewhat get my moneys worth out of the game just from the enjoyment of watching it be destroyed. Seriously, I would rather burn $50 then ever buy this game again. If you are even thinking of buying it, get a clue, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME.

Max Payne clone -- stay away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, having played and LOVED Max Payne, I was totally looking forward to this game, seeing that it was being compared with Max Payne in several ways, but having played it now I only want to play Max again to get the bad taste out of my mouth that Dead to Rights has left with me. This game is merely a clone, and not a good one. I wish I would have read some of the game reviews for buying it, because they would have warned me to stay away. For example, I have the latest issue of GameNow in front of me, and they give the game a C+, and warn how bad the controls are and how completely way too difficult the game is. Their headline quote says it all: "Frustrating and immensely difficult." I don't play games to pull my hair out, so I can in no way recommend this game, as much as I was looking forward to another game with the cool style and fun gameplay as Max.

Really [poor] Controls...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...ruin a game I was really looking forward to. An earlier review had it right - pushing LEFT on the right joystick to look RIGHT? And you can't completely customize the controls? Also, the fighting (without a gun) is really clunky. When a large number of Xbox owners have DoA, and many of us grew up on Tekken and Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter, etc, any fistfighting game has a lot to live up to. And it doesn't. The gunplay is pretty cool, though; but it would be much better with controls that are intuitive or 100% customizable.

Typical New-Jack Bullcrap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: September 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the reason why most people with half a brain will not buy new games. This game sticks to the post-Final Fight garbage that has flooded the market (i.e. Max Payne) which usually results in a trip back to the local store for a refund or an exchange. This game is a mindless shooter in which the object is to kill, blow up, and disarm everything in sight that resembles a hostile human being. There is no GTA innovation here, folks - simply shoot, reload, and shoot some more. There's some lousy slow motion effects that is used to make the gamer forget how uninnovative the gunplay is at normal speed. The mini-games are straight from the days of NES, and are serious game killers. Oh, did I forget to mention my fighting strategy for this game? It's a code known only to the most brilliant of gamers - when in hand-to-hand combat, simply punch-punch-punch-repeat! This game isn't worth giving to a dog for a chew toy (I tried, but the dog reacted violently at my gesture.) Listen to me: there is something seriously wrong with anybody who thinks this game is spectacular. If in fact you DO like this game, it is attributed to one of three factors:

1. Your I.Q. is < 100
2. Your birthyear is < 1978
3. You live in a far off country where computers still use tape drives, the government changes daily, and the top three video games are Centipede, Pengo, and Mr. Do's Wild Ride.

Stay away from this game like the plague - unless you have money to burn. Buying this game and burning money is synonomous- it's a crime and a shame.

Dead On Arrival

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OVERALL REVIEW: Someone compared this to Max Payne then was scolded by many others who said they were nothing alike. I agree.

Max Payne was great.

Dead To Rights was...returned the very next morning after I bought it.

Dead On Arrival is a better name for this poor excuse for a game. In fact, this game is so horrible that instead of wasting my time reviewing it I'm going to review the can of peaches sitting on my counter. Trust me, it's more entertaining and certainly more innovative.

GAMEPLAY: Well, when the peaches are taken out of the can I will be able to play a nice game of Kick The Can with my neighbor's kids. That was *the* game to play when I was a youngin'. With the peaches in, I can hurl the can at people below me (I live on the third floor) for a good amount of entertainment...until the cops come. Given that this is a high crime area they'll probably have other things to attend to. Throw in running up the stairs, breaking down the door and you have a good two hours of solid entertainment before the feds pick you up. Nice.

VISUALS: It's Del Monte, so what do you expect? There's a pretty picture of a bowl of peaches, which I'm sure are nicer and larger than what I'll get when I pop this baby open. I do have to say the ribbed look of the can is getting old. That's been around for what, thirty, forty, fifty years? You'd think that after all this time people would demand more from a can. Still, that's one pretty label. And I really appreciate the nutritional information. I've been trying to lose some weight and knowing how many calories I'm going to down comes in handy.

SOUND: Here's where I'm in a bind. If I shake the can (getting some sound out of it) I stand a chance of ruining the peaches. But if I don't, then I won't be getting the most out of my can. But can I honestly give a fair review without doing this?

I think not.

Let's see...oh yeah. There's some squishing going on here...Nothing too loud, very soft. I could imagine this being soothing after a while. If I were to throw in a mod chip I bet I would get the occasional clink along with the nice "squish squish." Still, because I had to modify the can I'm giving it a one star. Next time Del Monte should mix it up a bit and leave the pit in there. That'll liven up the sound and raise the sound score!

Quite possibly the worst game I've ever played.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First and foremost, it looks like a commercialized Max Payne rip-off. I love Max Payne and I wouldn't mind if a game was using the same formula, but this took the formula and modified it for the more "sell-out" approach. The first FMV sequence was not the kind of thing I'd want to see in a game.

Secondly are the controls. Horrible. I know it probably doesn't mean a whole lot when a PC gamer says the controls are horrible for a console shooter, but the controls are to the point of being almost unplayable. If this were its controls were its only flaw, it could have been redeemed, but alas, it has much bigger problems.

Next on the list is the scaling of difficulty. There are no selectable skill levels, and the progression of difficulty is a pure absurdity. On one level you might get hit a few times, on the next level you'll get killed about twenty times before you finally lose patience with the game. Also, the dog, while a good idea for game mechanics, is a retarded implementation. The controls for him are nearly as bad as they are for the main character.

Another gaping problem is the camera and locking scheme. I'd say that 90% of the time you trace a lock on someone, it's not a person who any reasonable human would want to fire at first. You'll be flanking more than you'll be hitting actual targets. The way the camera always goes to the most inconvenient angles also helps for enemies to sneak up on you unnoticed and kill you with one shot. Sickening.

So if you have some extra money, I'd suggest spending it on Max Payne or Max Payne 2. Overall I was greatly unimpressed by the gameplay. It was worse than Pariah, yet somehow gaming magazines rated it a 9 and Max Payne 2 a 7, claiming Dead To Rights was an original, classic game while Max Payne 2 was a cheap rip-off.

Avoid this game at all costs.

this game [stinks]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

alright i got the game cause it looked hot, and everyone was talking about it. i thought it would be really cool to control a dog and kill people with it! well let me tell you, the dog [stinks]. he should BE a shadow... anyway it was fun while it lasted... in the beggining you get used to the controls. it was fun. but believe me... the game ddrraaggss on and its no fun walking up to a bad guy, pressing a or whatever 10 times and moving on. there are also some glitches when he jumps.. when he jumps in regular time, he shoots about 2 times. when he jumps in bullet time, or slo mo.. he shoots like 5 times.. does that make sense? well i would suggest u rent this game instead of buying it. or else make a clean spot on the shelf for it...

Frustrating like Hell!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Many already said that, but I will say it again:

This is the most frustrating game I have ever played in my entire life!

NO story.
NO logic.
NO fun.

You run, you kill, you run, you kill, etc.

Besides, if you want to spend hours playing the same level over and over and over, feel free to buy this game.

When you are about to finish a level with some healt left, enemy characters suddenly pop up behind your back (even when there is no access behind you) to kill you.

I truly hate that game.

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