25 to Life

by Eidos

Product Features

• Play as either cops or gangsters in this urban-action 3rd-person shooter
• Fully customizable character system; highly interactive urban environment
• Robust weapons arsenal includes both lethal and non-lethal options
• Cutting-edge hip-hop soundtrack featuring undeniable rap classics
• Intense online gameplay for up to 16 players

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007LWN2U
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 17, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,772 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

25 to Life is the game the streets have been waiting for. Play as either cops or gangsters, in this urban-action third-person shooter. The game delivers intense online gameplay for up to 16 players, as well as a rich single-player experience. Set in the heart of today's cities, experience the gritty lifestyles of police task forces or as a gangster survive the local neighborhood thugs while fighting your way up the ranks. Bust out of prison, or infiltrate the inner sanctum of the drug lord's mansion, your knowledge of the streets will be put to the test because 25 to Life IS the streets!

Features:

• Battle online with up to 16 players in this intense urban battlefield. Establish and defend your turf or uphold the law and exchange fire against your opponents using the USB headset!
• Compelling single-player gameplay. Experience the world of 25 to Life as you try to survive life on the grind as a rising thug forced into life-threatening situations.
• Highly interactive urban environment delivers a superior and realistic gameplay experience. Car alarms, barking dogs, pedestrians are few of the items that may give your position away.
• Fully customizable character system gives you the freedom to define your looks and style. Display your ranking by unlocking and customizing your gear with the latest threads!
• Robust weapons arsenal includes both lethal and non-lethal ways to take down your opponents.
• Cutting-edge hip-hop soundtrack featuring undeniable rap classics, as well as the best of current and breaking artists.

Product Description

25 TO LIFE is the first true Cops and Robbers game. Choose your side in this urban action third person shooter. The game delivers intense online game-play for up to 16 players, as well as a rich single player experience. Witness the gritty lifestyles of police task forces or strive to survive as a gangster fighting your way out of the streets. The story unfolds through the eyes of Detective Lester Williams of the local Police Department and Andre “Freeze” Francis, the street “lieutenant” of the 22nd St D-Boys, a well established street gang whose greedy philosophy keeps their enemies in fear. Their gritty journeys are conveyed through four intertwined chronicles that culminate into true life lessons. Freeze, a young twenty-something hustler is trying hard to get out the game, stay down with his lifelong crew and avoid his third strike. But when Calderon, Freeze’s lifetime homeboy, double crosses him on the last Job; it forces Freeze to get revenge, save his only son from a life of crime and survive a series of deadly shootouts. Along the way, Freeze faces-off with Detective Williams and his deadly partner, Maria Mendoza. Freeze must also step to a legion of haters out to kill him…

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Be afraid. Be very afraid., February 4, 2006

By 

Videogamer - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 25 to Life (CD-ROM)

People, stay away from this game. The senseless killings and bad language give gaming a bad name. The story is minuscule and convoluted, the graphics way, way below par and you play through it in four hours. If you like gangsta rap, maybe the soundtrack would be nice, but you get many more for 30 bucks on iTunes or in a record store. Don't waste precious life time on this game like I did.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars PARENTS!!!!!, April 21, 2006

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GOREHOUND LARS "decay-decor" - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 25 to Life (CD-ROM)

Game is OK, but I'm really here to say, if parents were paying attention to their children, and NOT BUYING ADULT GAMES FOR THEM!!this wouldnt be an issue. Stop being parents to the whole nation and keep an eye on your own kids, thats why we have a rating system for movies and GAMES. Can't stop your kids from playing a game, thats your problem, not the game makers, sounds like you should re-think your parenting position to me. Can't stop the games.. HA! HA! HA!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be afraid White people, May 19, 2007

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Ryan G Kinghorn "Nephew of Sam" (The Great North East) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 25 to Life (CD-ROM)

Guns, Murder, Police Violence

We saw the riots in LA, and the brutality against Blacks in Phillidelphia but thankfully we are white, middle class and don't have to worry about these problems.
Then our white friends at Eidos pulled a sneak attack and hit us with this game

25 to life is all that it should be, kill cops or kill thugs, it is senseless and you get points for the carnage you create.
It makes sense, seeing as the majority of police/civilian violence is senseless and all you really can expect to come from it in real life is points, in the form of bragging rights. The name of the game is survival and I suppose that this game wouldn't be so bad if you could just kill the thugs.

I mean c'mon, whats a game when your a black male, showing the fact that you no longer want to submissively be raped by white dominated and racially/socially divided judicial system. No self respecting person should have to see that.

But hey, if your a person, with the capability for rational thought, and can see the games context for a realist cops/robbers game. Buy it, but if your a racist white jackass that wants it banned b/c a few cops got killed then don't. But who's to say that the cop that you could have killed wasn't the one that didn't respond to your moms cries for help while she was attacked b/c they were too busy busting a teenager for pot.

This game is an encapsulation of all city stereotypes, that we have tried so well to hide our children from, so that way when they are confronted with it in the future they will be ignorant to it and possibly over react, but that just the way they should act...or over act

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