Wanted: Dead

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  1. SuntannedDuck2
    Jul 22, 2023
    8
    Wanted Dead is my Devil's Third (2008-2015) successor. It's like PS3/360, skill tree, mods to guns in a TPS + walk around HQ. Mix of H&S &Wanted Dead is my Devil's Third (2008-2015) successor. It's like PS3/360, skill tree, mods to guns in a TPS + walk around HQ. Mix of H&S & TPS combat. Rough in areas of AI, aiming, some performance but fun. Varied missions (1 regular, another helicopter snipe like COD4 MW) & minigames (gun range/ramen rhythm,/crane).

    Police HQ & anime cutscene backstory (hallucination) surprised me. The Devs tried besides the jank left & I appreciate it.

    Janky but playable. Silly fun action movie story. Though Wanted Dead is more on events that make no sense of a company, some politics, & criminals in police/army positions & historians thinking common seense has gone. The story is silly but fair at setting the scene at least. Silly action stories. i appreciate it. Play for gameplay/silly fun. Old school fun yes.

    It's clode but very different than Devil's Third & I'm all for it. :) I got a hack n slash/shooter that's fun.

    Hardly PS2 unique then PS3/360 TPS format + skill tree/hack n slash/walk around HQ. Some sixth gen fresh then 7th gen formulaic tweaks of 8th/9th.

    The shooting/sword combat aren't great but good enough. This game has improvments to Devil's Third & other times not. It's made my similar Devs so it seemed fair to compare.

    Chainsaw with a censored bar too in my Aussie copy.

    Points from different attacks on enemies or collectibles. Hits are possible but depends. Recoil on SMGs can be fast/tilt up quick, but Assault Rifle is good enough to aim & the pistol is automatic/no ammo but reloads so don't worry about it (works with melee or on own).

    You can customise pistol/assault rifle only. I played on normal & it offered what I expected of a bit of bullet sponge enemies (for main enemies), a few segmented areas for cutscenes to play out. Some ok hallways and wider rooms with tables or walls to hide behind but a more Tomb Raider automatic hide behind. Not a fan of this. The camera can get confused when up against walls/change quickly during melee. Pistol snaps onto enemies.

    Unlike other games with melee with the butt/end/grip of the gun you have a sword. But you have your rifle on R2 & your Pistol on Triangle so kind of like Bayonetta/DMC hack n slash Square (sword) & Triangle & you can combine Triangle sometimes in a combo. Very basic combos. A dash, L3/R3 bullet time shots once filled up circular bar (ok not great), grenades/types, many passive/minor perks.

    Aim guns with L2 & R1 with grenades early in the skill tree. Grenade types also to swap with R1, d-pad. Careful of fire grenades.

    Points from enemy kills/executions.

    3 presets of controls, talking default.

    The tutorials are button press checks, quick & easy to learn to vault over with X, sword with Square (few combos done + Pistol), other guns with R2, aim guns with L2, reload on O & Triangle + O for finishing move. If shiny enemies hit enough or timed well with 10, 19, 100 points then single.

    While L1 guarding with the sword/time right at red lights to parry or just use it in general to guard. D-pad Down with healing you get 3 of these just like the 3 grenades (you get 1 heal from one of your 3 teammate NPCs in your squad if you fall down once that's free, next time you game over & it sets you at the checkpoint. Yes you have to assign your skill tree points again).

    Up on d-pad is to swap between auto, single bullet modes. So something like Black 2006 or other games with single bullet/full firing modes. I always liked when games did this.

    There is a few scopes, grips & things to customise (drone to access customise menu or start of missions). Stats display changes. Not sure if major noticeable changes yet.

    You have 2 weapons. Left and right d-pad. Like Killzone Shadowfall you have a mandatory gun & a use whatever you pick up from enemies one. They vary from shotgun at few shots to a SMG close to your Assault Rifle ammo count.

    The humour/fan service can be very particular. If the first hour like Binary Domain doesn't set the scene enough of the action, the fan service then yeah. Though that game only did it in the start & I assume the same is here.. But just to point out encase.

    It has over the top action so blood on characters &v enemies where cuts are during melee. Face, arms, legs, arms off & such. So if that's off putting there wasn't a blood option to turn off. I do think profanity & blood/gore/dismemberment options should be in games. I can take the content but if you can't no settings to turn off.

    You have around 30-60 ammo on Assault Rifle/SMG guns & about 5 or so Shotgun (have enemies to encounter other weapons) (so far for the 1st mission) & you are meant to go between melee & guns. Devil's Third had enough ammo that you only rarely needed to use the sword for a few boss fights/melee enemies.

    The skill tree offers grenade/types, teammate assist, bullet time, dash, slide & passive perks.

    Characters/tropes ok. Odd scripts/direction fair voice/plot.

    Music o    … Full Review »
  2. Orororu
    Aug 20, 2023
    8
    Is it a terrible game? Yes, absolutely! Generic, unfinished story, terrible voice acting, extremely unfair checkpoints, but it is like SekiroIs it a terrible game? Yes, absolutely! Generic, unfinished story, terrible voice acting, extremely unfair checkpoints, but it is like Sekiro plus John Wick in one game. You cut parry and insert sick gun combos in between. I just cannot give this less than 8 out of 10. Even though it has flaws. A lot of them.… Full Review »
  3. Steyraus
    Jul 5, 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. .    … Full Review »
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