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Armed and Dangerous
(hx) 03:06 PM CET - Dec,27 2003
Armed and Dangerous is a 3rd-person action shooter developed by Planet Moon
Studios, the company that brought us
Giants:
Citizen Kabuto. The lands of Midden have been conquered by the evil King
Forge, who has ruled over them with an iron fist for many years. A small band of
Robin Hood-esque thieves, called the Lionhearts, who have an axe to grind
against the King, decide to pull one last ultimate heist. They stole the famed
Book of Rule, the King's prized possession, and thus humiliate him. It doesn't
work out exactly as planned, though. What begins as a purely selfish plan
changes as the Lionhearts get drawn into the underground rebellion against the
King.
In the game, you control a master thief named Roman and your pals Jonesy, a sarcastic, mean-spirited and selfish Scottish moleman who's a miner and a demolition expert, Q1-11, a highbrow former-killer robot that helping you fight and Rexus, a once-powerful magic seer with googly glass eyes. To be exact, your buddies (Jonesy and Q1-11) are controlled by the AI and basically just follow your moves, helping you blast baddies. You can only issue two simple orders to them - "attack target area" and "guard me".
Armed and Dangerous features 21 levels set in five various environments (snowy levels, woods, mountains, sea-spattered cliffs), plenty of weapons like the Hawkings Rifle, Flemming Machine gun, Cyclops Sniper Rifle, Vindaloo Rocket Launcher, Gurner Personal Mortar and the Land Shark Gun, six different types of bombs - Sticky Bombs, Topsy Turvy Bombs, Guy Fawkes Traitor Bomb, Knockout Bomb, and World's Smallest Black Hole, and wicked enemies like half-man, half-animal Grunts, eliminator droids and wall-smashing Goliaths.
The gameplay is pretty straightforward - you and your teammates run across an open landscape employing the weaponry to achieve mission objectives. If course, here are tons of enemies and you have to kill'em all :) So you can expect lots and lots of action in the game. Some weapons are really cool. For example, you have the Land Shark Gun that releases a shark to attack your enemies - that means enemies get swallowed by a shark that swims just under the ground, or the Topsy Turvy bomb that literally turns your world upside down and send enemies in your range up and down in the world as well. In each state you can carry up to three different regular weapons. To make gameplay a bit more various, sometime you must control a single turret armed with two machine guns and a mortar. That mortar is on a rail atop a wall guarding a town or village. Your objective is to keep a set number of Grunts (usually 100) from getting over the walls and taking over the town for King Forge. There are thousands and thousands little "dots" (ehrm enemies) coming at you! These bonus missions are really very fast-paced and cool.
Overall, Armed and Dangerous is great game, however you will complete it in
just a few hours, and unfortunately the replay value is not very good. There's
no multiplayer too :( There's no doubt that a co-op mode would be really great
addition to the gameplay. Hey developers, do you hear me?! :) Despite the game
is short, simplistic and a bit repetitive, I liked it. Honestly, once started, I
couldn't stop myself from playing till I finished it. How's that possible? In
fact, the in-game-humor and cut-scenes is what you want to play&finish the game
for. That's it. You can try out this playable
demo (168MB).
Minimum system requirements: 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 32MB 3D card, 4x CDROM
snd: 4/5 - excellent sound effects, great voice-acting, good music
gfx: 4/5 -
pretty solid, most things are destructible, great jokes and cut-scenes, large outdoor environments
playability: 4/5 -
pretty straightforward, unique weaponry, great in-game-humor, crazy weapons, useless team, a bit repetitive, no multiplayer
genre: 3rd-person shooter
platform: PC (also available on Xbox)
release: December 2003
developer: Planet Moon Studios
publisher: Lucas Arts
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Overall: 82% |
                                                                             
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last 10 comments:
| 12yr-old-n00b | posted - Dec, 28 2003 - 15:31 | cool, i'm first. i can set the trend. i played the demo and i though this game sucked. The graphics were bad on my MX-440, and it was too childish - even for a 12yr n00b like myself. |
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| paul | posted - Dec, 28 2003 - 21:13 | | this game is really good.. it has style which a lot of games lack these days... |
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| Shams | posted - Dec, 29 2003 - 02:54 | | This is an excellent game. If you like Brit comedies like Red Dwarf or The Young Ones - you gonna enjoy this even more. Gameplay, as indicated, is very solid. Almost an hour worth cut scene. Only downside is it's kinda short but still a great PLAYABLE funny game!!! I would say excellent rent & good buy! |
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| me | posted - Dec, 29 2003 - 16:01 | | 3rd person shooter, no mp ... It sucks,
Second encounter rocks a lot more. |
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| B&BS | posted - Dec, 29 2003 - 17:16 | | THIS GAME IS AWESOME IT FUCKIN RULEZ SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH U ASSHOLES WHO THINK THIS GAME SUCKS FUCK U!!!!!!!I DUNNO WHAT TO SAY THIS IS MY DREAM FUCKING GAME!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Charles "Striker" Fa | posted - Dec, 29 2003 - 18:07 | | :Good News, Good News do you guys heard about the release of Jagged Alliance 2: Urban Chaos go check out at planetjaggedalliance.com, hey happy gaming I'm the first one to know about. |
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| m00 | posted - Dec, 29 2003 - 22:32 | | Good game, great humor. A bit repetitive in some respects, but a fun game nonetheless. |
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| V1m | posted - Dec, 30 2003 - 00:37 | | Currently have it out on rental for Xbox. Nice fast player movement, fun weapons, brilliant level design, and biting humor. This is a class job -- about as good as silly 3rd person shooter territory gets. Rent without hesitation, folks! |
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| bill gates | posted - Dec, 30 2003 - 15:09 | | lol ... HX - you should have web-bots automatically post 3 reviews for every new game you review: one saying "this game rulez", another saying "this game sux", and another telling all the people who say the game sux to shut up! LOL... seems every game gets the same comments. |
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| gygrax | posted - Dec, 30 2003 - 21:58 | | Dont see how a game without multiplayer hampers it..
Stop being a whore. |
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| louis | posted - Dec, 30 2003 - 22:18 | | very good |
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| middlesister | posted - Dec, 31 2003 - 20:13 | | how do you use the cheat "missions"-play any level? it doesn't seem to put any levels in the game that you haven't already played?if you know how to use this cheat please e-mail me ...thanks in advance |
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| NOTHING | posted - Jan, 04 2004 - 04:09 | | Anyone who's played it, is it somewhat similar to MDK2 (Mortal, Death, Kill 2)? I think it was Shiny who developed it. |
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| Dr Dre | posted - Jan, 06 2004 - 19:01 | | It's great.I don't now what to say.But this fucking game is shame for the computer games.So they most make perfect games like Max Payne2,Freedom Fighters,Call of Duty and other.Let me tell you something I will go to her fucking home,then i will grab her fucking hair,then i will take to her fucking car and i will throw her in the fucking canyon.
PS MAKE BETTER FUCKING GAMES!!!!!!!!!! |
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| posted - Jan, 11 2004 - 18:40 | | 3rd person shooter games are stupid. Cause you can see behind you. And not to mention that you can't aim good.
This game is like something that is ejected out of a persons ass. |
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| swanen | posted - Jan, 28 2004 - 12:03 | | ive completed the game and this is one of the best games ive ever played !
the cutscenes are soooo good i want to c them again and again !!
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| tiago barrela | posted - Apr, 05 2004 - 17:24 | | very good easy to play excelente platform |
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| Werty Gol | posted - May, 19 2004 - 21:49 | | Awesome game, silly graphics, repetitive ans brainless gameplay, bu extremly adicctive and humorous.
If you like games like MDK 1 and 2 or Giant: Citizen Kabuto you enjoy it. |
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