Dead to Rights II

It can certainly be fun to blast your way through dozens of thugs like a true action hero. However, Dead to Rights II simply does not have the level of depth offered in the first game of the series. The interesting plot has been replaced with a shallow backdrop for heavy action sequences. The unique mini-games are gone and there is less exploration required. The game is extremely linear and on the short side. Players can expect to easily get through it in seven to eight hours. If you are looking for a game that will challenge you intellectually or offer any kind of true depth, Dead to Rights II is certainly not your best option. But if you want some solid action gaming to blow off some steam, Jack Slate and Shadow will be happy to oblige.

It can certainly be fun to blast your way through dozens of thugs like a true action hero. However, Dead to Rights II simply does not have the level of depth offered in the first game of the series. The interesting plot has been replaced with a shallow backdrop for heavy action sequences. The unique mini-games are gone and there is less exploration required. The game is extremely linear and on the short side. Players can expect to easily get through it in seven to eight hours. If you are looking for a game that will challenge you intellectually or offer any kind of true depth, Dead to Rights II is certainly not your best option. But if you want some solid action gaming to blow off some steam, Jack Slate and Shadow will be happy to oblige.

It can certainly be fun to blast your way through dozens of thugs like a true action hero. However, Dead to Rights II simply does not have the level of depth offered in the first game of the series. The interesting plot has been replaced with a shallow backdrop for heavy action sequences. The unique mini-games are gone and there is less exploration required. The game is extremely linear and on the short side. Players can expect to easily get through it in seven to eight hours. If you are looking for a game that will challenge you intellectually or offer any kind of true depth, Dead to Rights II is certainly not your best option. But if you want some solid action gaming to blow off some steam, Jack Slate and Shadow will be happy to oblige.

Basically, this is your everyday shoot and kill game. Your mission is the same, run in this room, kill these guys, flip a switch and continue. Simple idea that could have had a lot more added to it to make it worth a purchase. I highly recommend that you don't buy this game until you at least rent it. It's not worth $49.95 and you will get tired of it just by playing it a little bit at a friends house. I did have fun playing this game... the first hour or two that is. After that, you will probably not have a drive to play it much longer.

The developers promised a number of innovations to the series when Dead to Rights II was first announced. Somehow, all of that fell by the wayside, and what remains is essentially a marginally refined mirror of the original. While this would make it a worthwhile budget title for fans of the first, full price is asking a lot when offering so little improvement.

Dead to Rights II looks good, and it’s not without its own charms. If all you want to do is shoot some fictional people, it’ll let you do that, and it’ll make you work for it. However, if you’ve played any of a few dozen better action games that’ve come out in recent memory – either Max Payne, True Crime, The Punisher, BloodRayne 2, etc.—then Dead to Rights II is going to feel very shallow, very soon, and you’ll have a hard time getting to the end.

Your opinion of Dead to Rights II will basically come down to whether you appreciate the old fashioned shooters and their lack of complexity. If you insist on all the modern trappings of the current shooters then Dead to Rights II may seem a little hollow and short on substance. However, if you enjoyed the old fashioned shooters then you'll appreciate what Dead to Rights II offers. Don't get me wrong it's flawed in that the game isn't very long, there's not much of a plot and load times are long as well as the game being repetitive but it's also very addictive and will certainly keep you playing until you come to the very end. I haven't played the first game in the series so I can't comment on how it compares but taking this sequel on its own merits, it's a good game that could have been better and could really have done with a more substantial plot to add depth to the game.

The game's got some unlockable weapons and difficulty modes, plus an instant action mode that just keeps throwing bad guys at you, as if the main story mode was anything different. It's not necessarily something you'll be compelled to keep playing, though, since all the blasting nearly overstays its welcome on the first time through. So Dead to Rights II isn't worth full price, and on top of that, it's a pretty disappointing follow-up to an action game that tried to do more than what most all the other action games were doing at the time.

Dead to Rights II provides some mindless shooting with all of the clichéd elements you've come to expect from a third person action game. Far from an extension of the first game, it’s more of a trimmed down, director’s cut that simply removed elements that gamers disliked in the first version.

The game's got some unlockable weapons and difficulty modes, plus an instant action mode that just keeps throwing bad guys at you, as if the main story mode was anything different. It's not necessarily something you'll be compelled to keep playing, though, since all the blasting nearly overstays its welcome on the first time through. So Dead to Rights II isn't worth full price, and on top of that, it's a pretty disappointing follow-up to an action game that tried to do more than what most all the other action games were doing at the time. But on the other hand, what the game lacks in cohesion or presentation quality, it makes up for--at least partly--with its raw, angry energy. Through all the nonstop senseless violence that's on the docket here, you'll have to admit the game's got a lot of spirit. So if you like playing video games to release tension, and you don't care about good stories or online multiplayer modes or any of that stuff, definitely rent this one or something.

Back when the Xbox was no more than a fledgling, Microsoft bolstered its exclusive software releases with a title known as Dead to Rights. The third-person action game was something of a guilty pleasure. The gameplay was easy to grasp, the kills were brutally violent, and the storyline was ripped directly from a Charles Bronson film. Dead to Rights II tries to accentuate the best elements from the first game while shedding some of the features gamers took issue with. The result is a stripped-down actioner that lacks complexity, but delivers some very simple point-and-shoot fun.

My first reaction after receiving Dead to Rights 2 went something like this (slight variations are possible): "Hmm, what have we here? Dead to Rights, wasn't that some B-title from several years ago? And now a sequel? Jeez, Louise...". I was expecting a mediocre game and for once my gut feeling was right...

Dead To Rights II is a sequel that lives up to its celluloid inspirations by taking the formula of the first game, paring it down to its bare essence and stuffing it with as much visceral gameplay as possible. The thing is, while it’s not Shakespeare, there are enough people that go for this kind of thing to justify flooding the market with its ilk.

I’ve been looking forward to Dead to Rights II since I played it at E3 in 2004, but after finishing up the final release I felt a bit cheated. So much of what I loved about the first game has been stripped away leaving me with only a mindless arcade-shooter and there are plenty of those out there. Everything that made Jack and Shadow special is gone. If you’re hard up for an action-shooter then you might want to check this out when it hits the $20 bargain bin, but otherwise I’d have to recommend you skip this latest installment in the Jack Slate saga.

Sem frescuras, o game oferece ação rápida e frenética para o jogador. O problema é o volume de jogo, que dura algumas poucas horas e não recompensa você com muitos extras que façam o usuário querer jogar mais de uma vez. Infelizmente, diante de grandes produções que divertem por meses, o preço de entrada de "Dead to Rights II" é alto para sua compra - mas não para um aluguel.

Dead to Rights II feels like a game of missed opportunity. This is repetitive gaming (enter a room, shoot hordes of bad guys, pick up something, shoot the hordes that arrive late to the party, move to the next area, repeat), to say the least. While the elements were cliché enough, the game feels like it still could have been a decent shooter. But with long load times, suspect AI, and very linear gameplay, the title moves over onto that “pass” list. However, if you were a big fan of the first title, and crave that mindless, twitch-gaming fix similar in nature, then Dead to Rights II offers that.

Dead To Rights II is a classic example of a game that isn't any good yet manages to be enjoyably passable for long enough that you might come away with the mildly mistaken impression that it's actually good. If not that, at least you might get the genuine impression that you really did enjoy it, right up until you realise that that's all you're getting and boredom sets in.

Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme have made big bank on movies like this: A renegade cop goes on a rampage against a brutal gang, and, in the course of righting whatever wrong has been committed, he brutally (and in myriad ways) dispatches a few hundred thugs for their crimes. No one will nominate the actors' performances for an Academy Award, but they provide some mindless entertainment--the film equivalent of cotton candy.

Dead to Rights II is the sequel to a mediocre game. And the sequel to a mediocre game is most of the time an even worse game. And indeed, Namco didn't disappoint us! Even better: this sequel is completely redundant and will by no means give you an experience worth checking out.

Dead to Rights 2 is a lesson in what happens when there is an unwillingness to evolve or risk new ideas. Jack Slate and his world are carved from such a recognizable cookie cutter that nothing feels impressive and every aspect of the game is quietly forgettable. If you like the series, do yourself a favor and go replay the first one rather than justify its sequel with your attention.

Dead to Rights 2 is a lesson in what happens when there is an unwillingness to evolve or risk new ideas. Jack Slate and his world are carved from such a recognizable cookie cutter that nothing feels impressive and every aspect of the game is quietly forgettable. If you like the series, do yourself a favor and go replay the first one rather than justify its sequel with your attention.

While offering much of the same entertainment as before, Dead To Rights II is a visual improvement on the first game, with some fun destructible environments and an enhanced bullet-time mode. Regardless, this doesn't hide the fact that this is as generic as they come and way too expensive considering its lacklustre subject matter and execution. For all that, though, it provides a limited amount of mindless fun that's worthy of only a rental.

Si le premier épisode n'était pas bien original, il avait cependant une identité propre grâce à plusieurs petites idées fort sympathiques. Le deuxième épisode oublie tout ceci vu qu'il laisse de côté le scénario, les mini-jeux du premier opus ainsi que la diversité environnementale. Au final, Dead To Rights II n'est qu'un beat'em all lambda avec de gros problèmes de caméra, une difficulté mal pensée (finir le jeu en Normal ou en Dur relève de l'exploit) et un manque d'ambition.

Si le premier épisode n'était pas bien original, il avait cependant une identité propre grâce à plusieurs petites idées fort sympathiques. Le deuxième épisode oublie tout ceci vu qu'il laisse de côté le scénario, les mini-jeux du premier opus ainsi que la diversité environnementale. Au final, Dead To Rights II n'est qu'un beat'em all lambda avec de gros problèmes de caméra, une difficulté mal pensée (finir le jeu en Normal ou en Dur relève de l'exploit) et un manque d'ambition.

I don't know how this is even possible, but Namco managed to strip away all of the noteworthy material, leaving players with nothing more than shoddy controls, horrible graphics, and a mentally-challenged dog at their side. I've seen famed video game franchises plummet from grace before, but Dead to Rights falls faster than them all.

I don't know how this is even possible, but Namco managed to strip away all of the noteworthy material, leaving players with nothing more than shoddy controls, horrible graphics, and a mentally-challenged dog at their side. I've seen famed video game franchises plummet from grace before, but Dead to Rights falls faster than them all.

In the end, Dead to Rights II is average at best. It is a repetitive shooter with virtually no long term replay value whatsoever, and with the removal of the bomb defusing mini-games, there really isn't much left for me to enjoy.

All I can say is that if this version was released first, I doubt very much there would have been a sequel.

All things considered, it's probably a blessing that Dead To Rights II is a short game. Most players will easily nail the coffin shut in a weekend. In that respect, it makes for a reasonable rental, but not much else.

When we last saw Jack Slate, he was taking his revenge against the criminals of Grant City. Dead To Rights might have been cribbing from Max Payne, but as simple, violent tales go, it wasn't all bad. For this sequel, Namco has actually gone back in time to tell a story which occurs earlier on the timeline. And it's perfectly fitting that Dead To Rights II is a prequel, because from a gameplay perspective, it's a big step back.

If you're into mindless shooting and action, Dead to Rights II might be a pleasant weekend diversion. However, if you're looking for a game that improves on the original, delivers an interesting story, varied gameplay, and is worth $50, you need to look elsewhere.

If you are interested in playing this game and you are into playing mindless shoot-em-ups, then this is the game for you. But sadly this game makes me think it was made to show how crappy it would actually look if it WAS made before the original. Namco has had two years to better learn the PS2's technology , and it seems to me they have merely tried to push out a prequel to a lackluster game that should never have been made in the first place. Take the review with a grain of salt and try it out yourself; it won't be too long before it's in that bargin bin!

Don't buy this game. Really, please don't. I am seriously begging you to not buy this game. Playing it doesn't even make you feel dirty, it literally makes you unclean to the point that dirt has bonded to your skin and you can't scrub it off no matter how hard you try or how many bars of Zest you go through. Actually, now that I think about it, the best part about Dead to Rights 2 isn't the packaging; it's the fact that I can trade it in for something leagues better. Don't waste your $50 on this one. Don't even waste $10 on this one when you see it in the bargain bin (and believe me, you will). This game is far too boring and crappy to even consider buying, period. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take the longest shower of my life.

Dead to Rights 2 really isn't, though. It manages to stumble all over itself from the second you turn it on and never manages to recover. Simple control functions are handled clumsily, changing weapons is a chore and someone actually thought the dumb melee-exclusive levels would be a good idea. Like the rest of this stinker, it is not.