Besides Jack himself, his dog Shadow, Grant City, and one other major story element we'll see in Chapter 5, this is pretty much a whole new ball-game.

Note also that the story is pretty much completely different, so for fans of the first game, there is no more Mayor Pinnacle, no more Rafshoon Diggs, and no more magic-potion wielding/fire-breathing sultans.

Liberty Taken with Photo Context: None.ĭTR:R is a 're-imagining' of the first game, which means it's a completely new story and nothing in the previous games is considered canon here. Well, flash forward a few years and Volitale Games picks up the IP and attempts to revive the franchise. It spawned a second sequel for the PSP called Dead To Rights: Reckoning, which is basically a reskin of DTR2 minus the voice acting Betus and I came to know and love. Diabetus and I Let's Played it about a year ago.ĭTR was successful enough to spawn a terrible sequel, Dead to Rights 2, which is actually a prequel from a story perspective.But it's honestly really boring gameplay-wise (the cutscenes are very funny, though) and not nearly as interesting as the first DTR. I think it actually went okay and the first Dead To Rights is a fun, if ridiculous, jaunt through the fictional crime-ridden metropolis known as Grant City. Again: THIS IS THE BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT SCREEN.Ī few years back, Namco Hometek (Namco's Western Division), decided to take on the Max Payne throne and make a John-Woo style arcade-y third-person shooter with melee sections, mini-games and a canine ally named Shadow.

Pictured: This game's brightness adjustment screen. Admittedly, his descriptive metaphors could use some work. When crime attempts to run rampant with gangs as big as armies, and arsenals funded by supervillians, Jack takes a belt of scotch and decides against bringing an extra gun because hey, maybe he needs to practice his hand-to-gun fighting tactics. If crime is a plague, Jack is the guy in the bird mask thing that burns the bodies.

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