Wanted: Dead

 PlayStation 4
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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 23
  3. Negative: 7 out of 23
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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 & 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.    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    … Expand
  2. 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 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 manyDont 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
  3. 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 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. TheyWanted: 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. 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 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.
  5. thedemon1238
    Apr 1, 2023
    10
    The game has some small problems that can be fixed with a patch, but its excellent in any other way. Overall very good battle system and gameplay. Very funny characters and enemies. The story is more like a story in a mega drive game. Does not get in the way of the gameplay and stands in the background. I beat the game two times and still want to play it more. Maybe i'll try the moreThe game has some small problems that can be fixed with a patch, but its excellent in any other way. Overall very good battle system and gameplay. Very funny characters and enemies. The story is more like a story in a mega drive game. Does not get in the way of the gameplay and stands in the background. I beat the game two times and still want to play it more. Maybe i'll try the more difficult settings.… Expand
  6. saulter
    Feb 17, 2023
    10
    About time we talk Wanted: Dead here. Truth to be told I created this account to talk about Wanted: Dead. I never post reviews online. Never, ever. This is the first time I will openly talk about a game that left an impression on me. This is probably what bipolar disorder feels like. I have been psychologically molested by Soleil and 110 Industries and it was one of the most memorable andAbout time we talk Wanted: Dead here. Truth to be told I created this account to talk about Wanted: Dead. I never post reviews online. Never, ever. This is the first time I will openly talk about a game that left an impression on me. This is probably what bipolar disorder feels like. I have been psychologically molested by Soleil and 110 Industries and it was one of the most memorable and amazing experiences in games I had in the past 5 years. Sometimes a game comes along and you buy it because of the cover art. This is how I did it. I have never seen a pink cover art on an action game before in my life. Nobody did. This is new. I come home and I start playing. My first impression is very bad. I don’t understand any of this and the game is brutally hard. First mission, I’m still not sold on it but I keep playing because I don’t know why. Usually I just toss the game if it sucks. Wanted: Dead didn’t suck at all but I just couldn’t get it. I stopped playing a lot of games mid way because they are boring. I’m looking at you God of War Ragnarok. Wanted: Dead has a fraction of GoW’s production values but somehow it keeps you entertained. Then I spent two hours picking toys in a crane game. Yes, I’m still talking about Wanted: Dead. Then I reached August and I felt like I was going to quit but when I finally kicked his ass it was a scream of joy. My GF ran into the living room to see what’s up. Then you are treated to a karaoke sequence that is real karaoke. Do you remember Just a Friend bit from Saints Row? This is exactly it but playable. Then Space Runaway. It’s an actual 16-bit SHMUP. Not a level or something. An actual arcade game was made for Wanted: Dead and when I unlocked it, I spent hours trying to beat it. Wanted: Dead surprises you every minute. The combat really opens up on the second mission when you progress further down the skill tree. The executions are gory and fun. There’s also a chainsaw. This game is a collection of randomized chaotic ideas all put together. It should not work but somehow it does and it’s a lot of fun. I’m on my second play through now. Bravo Soleil!… Expand
  7. GameorDie
    Mar 8, 2023
    7
    могла стати топовою
    надіюсь за неї візьмуться серйозні видавництва та зроблять ремейк "на всі гроші"
    могла бути топовою