There is a large amount of violence and profanity. There are ways to challenge yourself out side of the story, like collecting badges scattered around the levels, and you are rated on how well you complete missions from bronze to gold medals. You can unlock all types of concept are and development videos. There are a few cool unlocks but nothing that is terribly interesting. There is no online play for Dead to Rights, which isn’t a big let down because I don’t think the game has a smooth enough flow to be played online any way. Some of them are quite grueling and the use of guns makes them totally awesome. When you have weapons and you trigger a kill scene they get even better. These are decent and add a little something extra to the fighting. Instead of just beating your enemy to a bloody pulp, and trust me there is plenty of gore and violence in here you can, when available, select a kill scene. The fist fighting is accompanied by user triggered kill scenes. It is set up for fighting multiple enemies at once. The hand to hand combat may be one of Dead to Rights greatest features. Fist fighting is nothing to be taken lightly as it is very commonly used and quite a great system for gaining new weapons by disarming enemies. When you run out of ammo with a weapon instead of holding on to it for new set of magazines, you simply throw to the ground. Ammo is nothing to be wasted, as you will not find it to always be available though they do make sure you have weapons for bosses. There is a large range of weapons to choose from and you are currently unlocking new guns. Which if they where all in uniform would be alright but some of them are not and this makes the integrity drop a little for me. There is an issue with enemy models as all classes look the same. Each of these clans has the same classes which are like scouts, heavies, melee fighters, and tanks in the later stages. You start fighting the typical Asian influence street thugs and move your way up to the government take over group known as G.A.C. There are different clans or groups of enemies for every stage as the story progresses. The use of bullet time in Dead to Rights is very useful and a great feature for taking out multiple enemies.
Bullet time has no trade mark and I think that Max Payne did it the best, and with about the ability to jump around or dive and shoot in bullet time doesn’t seem like stealing the idea to me. I think that if this was an attempt at stealing the idea it was done in the most watered fashion imaginable.
There have been a lot of complaints that Dead to Rights: Retribution ripped off the bullet time idea from Max Payne. There are the, “hold off the never ending flow of enemy missions”, and the always annoying, “Protect this damsel in distress” missions. A lot of the objects are basically standard for action games. There are some good spots in the story, but most of the main events could have been written by a 10 year old. The twists and turns in the story are sadly very predicable. The story is some what cookie cutter for cop drama games, but the vocal acting and screen play are good enough to keep it interesting. I don’t even have many issues except a small amount of repetitive objectives.ĭead to Rights is one of the more straight forward games I have played but it can be very challenging at times. Personally I don’t see what all the grief is about as I found it to be fun, simple, and over all decent looking. There hasn’t been much improvement on the games reviews as many people are still unsatisfied with the new title. It is indeed a remake of the original Dead to Rights, yet because the original was given such poor reviews it was cleverly renamed Dead to Rights: Retribution. Flying under the radar is one thing but even though I knew about the original, I had no idea the remake even existed. I had to read up a little bit on Dead to Rights before I played it as I was unsure what it even was. Jack finds his way into a mess of characters and events that have a Max Payne feel to them. When Jack finds his father murdered on a crime scene he takes it upon himself to go to the streets in search of the man who has slain his up-bringer. Jack Slate has a good upbringing by his lawfully good father who has taught him the ways of old school police work. The police have never been more low tolerance of crime and have resorted to shooting now and asking questions later. In a city where crime has ruptured its well being, detective Jack Slate and his father are taking names by the book.