Wanted: Dead

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  • Summary: Wanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy. Play as Lt. Hannah Stone, a hardboiled Hong Kong cop, andWanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy. Play as Lt. Hannah Stone, a hardboiled Hong Kong cop, and plow through mercenaries, gang members and private military contractors in a spectacular cyberpunk adventure.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 35
  3. Negative: 6 out of 35
  1. GameSpace
    Feb 14, 2023
    90
    A genuinely gleeful throw back to a time when gaming was jsut starting to bring the best of out the fifth and sixth generation console era. Wanted: Dead draws on eighties and nineties influences and dives head first into a riotous hack and slash that screams style.
  2. The Games Machine
    Feb 14, 2023
    74
    Wanted: Dead has a very entertaining combat system based mainly on the use of white weapons, full of ultra-violence, blood, dismemberments, combos and particularly devastating final techniques, but it limps in everything else: the AI of our team and the enemies is not efficient, the minigames are sometimes a pretext to unlock some collectible, other times an interruption between one mission and another, and the story, however interesting to follow, continuously breaks the action. The final question is: is a triumph of blades enough to justify the purchase? Definitely yes, if you loved the slasher films of the early 2000s, otherwise you might find the offer a bit scarce.
  3. CGMagazine
    Feb 14, 2023
    70
    Despite not living up to the character action games it clearly draws inspiration from, Wanted: Dead is a competent action game in its own right.
  4. Player 2
    Feb 14, 2023
    58
    A trip back in time in both good and bad ways, Wanted: Dead is bad, but intentionally so. There is sure to be a crowd that will enjoy this PS2 throwback, but it won't hold the attention of modern gamers for long.
  5. GAMINGbible
    Feb 21, 2023
    50
    Irreverence works when you yourself have that playful perspective too, not just as a set of jigsaw pieces that actually don’t make any sort of picture at all.
  6. Shacknews
    Feb 14, 2023
    50
    There’s an action game underneath all of Wanted: Dead’s problems that is not half bad, especially if you liked games like No More Heroes, Devil’s Third, and Wet. It’s ridiculous in its context and action. Unfortunately, for everything good I could say about this game, there was at least one or two things keeping me from enjoying it. Between cringe-worthy dialogue, game crashes, clashing moods, random and ridiculously difficult moments, and broken mechanics, Wanted: Dead takes a lot of effort just to play, let alone enjoy.
  7. Malditos Nerds
    Apr 4, 2023
    30
    In Wanted: Dead, gameplay is frustrating, levels are the same and generic, there is no variety of enemies, combat possibilities are very limited and the music and atmosphere are forgettable.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 30
  3. Negative: 12 out of 30
  1. killerisme
    Feb 16, 2023
    10
    Simply put: Wanted: Dead is a **** train wreck, and you better get your ticket punched. This game is a flawed masterpiece that some won't get,Simply put: Wanted: Dead is a **** train wreck, and you better get your ticket punched. This game is a flawed masterpiece that some won't get, but those who get it, will enjoy it to the fullest. The Dutch dialogue in the cooking show is absolutely phenomenally hilarious. You may love it, you may hate it, but Wanted: Dead leaves a serious impression.… Expand
  2. nighthunter599
    Feb 16, 2023
    10
    Wanted: Dead is that type of a game where everyone 2 years from now will be saying that they **** with it since day one and that it is anWanted: Dead is that type of a game where everyone 2 years from now will be saying that they **** with it since day one and that it is an absolutely masterpiece. Does anyone remember Demon’s Souls? People hated that game so much that the Demon’s Souls remake was a PS5 launch title. Don’t listen to the nay sayers, Wanted: Dead is lit fire. People got caught off guard by its style. They forgot what video games are because of the movie video games like TLOU, Detroit and such. Turn on the accessibility options and the game plays itself. Woohoo, a legally blind non binary person just beat TLOU2 - a good day for gaming and humanity in general. Wanted: Dead just tells you to pick the **** controller and get good. The characters are insanely cool. Lt. Stone is a true female action hero like Ripley or Sarah Connor. She’s not gay, not bi-curious, not body positive, not “im’ma do it with no man” character. She kicks right in the nuts and still is a beautiful woman. The drama in this game is on point. If somebody doesn’t understand the story and what had happened and how this story is told, this is because you’ve been playing too many movie video games. Wanted: Dead is an absolute killer of a game. It’s a ten.… Expand
  4. tim_cusack08
    Feb 22, 2023
    10
    Wanted:Dead is a very fun throwback action title but it comes with fundamental design flaws like a goth kid in school trying to look normalWanted:Dead is a very fun throwback action title but it comes with fundamental design flaws like a goth kid in school trying to look normal among his peers. Wanted:Dead is a not a normal game, not by a long shot. Very recently I played Valkyrie Elysium made by the same developer and both games feel very similar in terms of blandness. Valkyrie Elysium is a conservative RPG with good story and decent gameplay but it falls flat when creativity comes into play. There’s no creativity In Valkyrie Elysium, it feels tamed, most likely restricted by Square Enix. Like many other Square Enix titles these days, Valkyrie takes no chances and therefore loses its ability to wow.

    Wanted:Dead tries hard to be normal and very boring and stay in its lane but occasionally pulls the leash and delivers insane amounts of creatively satisfying content. The story is barely there and it’s very hard to follow and I was bored by the cutscenes until suddenly some artistic spark started coming out of the scenes at the cantina or the scene at the noodle bar. These moments make the game shine bright with charm and personality. Insane executions while wearing cat ears, face smudged in blood and then a quick smoke if you leave the controller idle. Real joy mixed with anger from the final mission that drags on forever.

    As a note I want to add that this game deserves way more love that it gets. Wanted:Dead is far from mediocre and this game has balls to be different in the day and age when all games are standardised and measured to feel exactly the same.

    7/10    … Expand
  5. hogwarts9951432
    Feb 18, 2023
    7
    I bought Wanted: Dead after watching DOOD playing it. This game delivers on the fun element but I experienced a lot of crashes during theI bought Wanted: Dead after watching DOOD playing it. This game delivers on the fun element but I experienced a lot of crashes during the first mission. The combat is insanely fun. Wait for patch, don't buy right away.… Expand
  6. Funny7Cloud
    Feb 21, 2023
    4
    在2023年这个游戏从各个方面来讲都是不合格的，对各个方面都不合格的。
  7. C0QUINH0
    Feb 15, 2023
    2
    This game is very bad, horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE! Don’t play this, DONT!
  8. Steyraus
    Feb 15, 2023
    0
    Dont insult the Ps2 and Xbox era of game by realting it to this trash. Good games from that era were ballanced and finish. Wanted Dead is justDont insult the Ps2 and Xbox era of game by realting it to this trash. Good games from that era were ballanced and finish. Wanted Dead is just budget shovelware. This is a half finished unbalanced mess. It more of a beta test than a game...This game flopped financialy and criticaly but this studio also needs to be shut down, a product this bad should not hit the market. There are many moments in this game where the whole screen is white from a flash or explosion and when your finally able to see wtf is going on your health has gone from 100 to zero and you have no idea wtf happend...This could have been a fun hack and slash game but the ridiculas difficulty mixed with awkward controls just makes for an expensive short game that you will drop out of frustration. This studio dosent have the skill or prestige to be making a game thuis cheap/ hard.
    There is an insulting Neko mode that makes the game slightly easier. But these devs can get lost , insulting the player for having problems progressing in their cheap, broken , badly ballanced game...A game that deserves the failure in sales it got.    … Expand

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