Armed and Dangerous

The Good
I've never played Planet Moon's first game, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, but I can only imagine it's just as funny as Armed and Dangerous. AnD is sheer comedic genius until the end, and the action is excellent as well.

The first cutscene of the game will immediately get you into the comedic spirit of the game. There are genuinely funny things in that first movie, and as you continue, they only get better. The story is about the Lionhearts, a band of thieves including Roman, a man with a cloth always over his mouth who you control, Q, a British robot with a love of tea, and Jonesy, a mole with a strong Scottish accent. They meet up with Rexus, a blind seer who sometimes has a single glass eye in his head, who the tyrannous King Forge is attempting to kidnap. Forge is attempting to unlock the Book of Rule (upon which a spell has been cast which has made it into the Book of Basket Weaving) which details a prophecy and probably has magical powers or something, you don't need to know, it's just magical. The Lionhearts eventually begin a quest to steal the Book of Rule and use it to oust the king.

And the whole game is really, really funny.

The gameplay is fun as well. You'll mostly be using your machine gun, but you'll occasionally be using sticky bombs, which can stick to walls or enemies and create large explosions, a vindaloo rocket launcher, which can shoot two to four homing missiles at multiple targets, a black hole dispenser, which creates the world's smallest black hole to suck up your enemies, the land shark gun, which creates a shark that swims under the ground and occasionally pops up to eat people, and the Topsy Turvy device, which you stick in the ground and hang onto for dear life as the world turns upside down and your enemies fall into the sky, only to come falling back down again as the world resets itself.

This is all very, very fun.

The Bad
AnD does have problems. The Topsy Turvy device, which is quite possibly the most entertaining weapon in the game, rarely appears. I think I only used it once during the entire game. There are also several missions which require you to rescue peasants and bring them back to their homes as they awkwardly float on their backs behind you. Your compass often never tells you where their homes are, so this can be annoying.

The game is also pretty short. It took me two days to complete, and I would've liked it to last longer.

The Bottom Line
AnD is an excellent game. It may be short, but the amount of time it lasts is golden.