Customer Reviews

Armed and Dangerous

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
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I read a few gamer magazine reviews about this title. They claimed it was great to play and had gut busting moments. IT WAS ALL TRUE!

Warning - this game would be good for kids....HOWEVER the jokes and comments are very adult. This game is a shooter....but the violence is mild and made funny, not gory. I would say it is ok for 12 yrs old and up.

Want an example of FUNNY? One of your weapons is a Shark gun. Yes, you shoot it at an enemy, yet all you see is a shark fin swimming on top of the ground. Suddenly, a Great White shark lunges up from underneath the enemy, bites into him and shakes him around like a rag doll before disappearing into the dirt again...THEN IT PATROLS FOR MORE ENEMIES!!!! It can easily wipe out a gang that has you pinned! Best of all, it never gets old. I could watch it again and again and again!!!

Excellent job LucasArts.
The cutscenes are a must see. Do not skip anything, even the opening credits and titles for the game. Some are cute, some are funny and some will have you laughing out loud. True example - I was playing this game at 2am. One of the cutscenes made me burst out laughing. My girlfriend was asleep and did not enjoy being woken up to see me having a great time...lol

Basically, you are part of a crew of rogue-ish Scotsmen roaming the country side for The Book of Rule. You have a blind old Jewish man, a Mole and a robot Roman soldier as sidekicks. Comments while you play and shoot bad guys are made by your side kicks. Example - The Mole cries out in a thick Scottish accent, "Did you hear the one about Miners? Miners do it in the dark!" I have bad guys crawling all over me and I start laughing so hard they killed me quickly becasue I could not react!

Use a rocket to knock off a guy up on a cliff edge and watch and laugh as the vistim cries out something like, "Avenge my death!" and his body flies through the air and lands right near you with a hard smack. Down right funny.

My only gripe about this game - the cut scene graphics are a very low quality. I think the animation and character designs could have been better. Look at their arms...they look very puppet-ish and silly. The video itself is low quality and at times, hard to make out the details. I am really disappointed at LucasArts for that.

No other complaints, the game is awesome fun....play it the first time without the music on so you can hear all the funny screams, comments, etc. Play the game again WITH the music on..the music really adds to the game!!!!

It seems like this game was fairly overlooked when it came out, but now that it can be had pretty cheaply, I'd highly recommend picking it up.

As others have said, the best thing Armed and Dangerous has going for it is that it's funny - laugh-out-loud funny at times. The character design and voice acting are superb, making the cutscenes (which appear between every level) highly entertaining.

The actual gameplay is fairly standard third-person shooter fare, injected with a healthy dose of humor ("Is that a spleen?"). The weapon selection is decent, but although many of them are unique and amusing (e.g. the Land Shark Gun), most of the time you'll only be using two of them, the machine gun and rocket launcher, because they're so darned effective. The jet pack that shows up in missions midway through the game is a great addition as well.

The levels are well designed, with quite a bit of variety both in the setting and mission style. In addition to the standard levels, there are about a half-dozen missions that place you behind a machine gun/mortar turret, singlehandedly holding off invading armies. As you play through the levels, you can find tokens which unlock features of the game, including bonus levels, cheat codes, and the ability to replay missions and cutscenes. The number and length of the levels is sufficient that you'll be satisfied when you reach the end.

The game does have a few flaws (e.g. some pretty bad rendering artifacts during cutscenes), but I had such a good time playing it that they were easy to overlook. Check it out if you want something a little different that will keep you laughing for hours.

The biggest thing that Armed and Dangerous has going for it is its wacky sense of humor. That and its story. Everything else is kind of average.

You play as Roman, the leader of a group of bandits called "The Lionhearts", out to dethrone an evil tyrant king. The game alternates between missions and funny but ugly cutscenes that tell the game's story. Unfortunately, the missions are hardly integrated into the story. It's like the missions were created in a vacuum and then just thrown in after the storyline was written. For instance, you will play a mission where you have to save a bunch of villagers from the evil king out in the middle of nowhere, even though the previous cutscene mentioned nothing like this. Towards the end of the game when you are saving a group of villagers for the 10th time, it starts to get repetitive.

Repetitiveness ends up being the game's biggest problem. Half of the areas all look the same. There is a low variety of enemies and a very low variety of mission objectives. The missions are all "save the villagers" or "Blow up 5 buildings". There's also the occasional turret shooter mission. The variety of weapons that you get is pretty low, and so are the variety of enemies that you fight. If the developers had put as much effort into designing the missions as they did into the humor, then this would have been one of the best games of the past few years.

The game is the funniest since Anachronox. The humor is integrated into every aspect of the game. Even the manual is funny to read. The sound bites during firefights can make you chuckle. The enemies have this amusing "throw your arms above the air and run around and scream" routine that they go through when you stick a grenade to them, or when you use your topsy-turvy bomb to flip the world upside-down. The topsy-turvy bomb is one of the examples of the kooky weapons in the game. Armed and Dangerous feels like a 10-hour long episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

So in the end, it's the humor that makes the game worth playing, but not a lot besides it. I'll give the game a good rating, but if the developers had put as much effort into designing some good shooter levels as they did into the game's funny parts, then it could have been Game of the Year.

This game had me hooked as soon as I saw it. It is not your standard shoot the terrorists Nazi bad guy let's be realistic as possible FPS. This has lots of fun stuff thrown in, like the topsy-turvey bomb. FUN STUFF!

It's been a long time since I've played a game that has both made me laugh and is fun to play. This is one of those rare games that can pull off both. Fans of Giants: Citizen Kabuto will absolutly love this game. The graphics are pretty good and the game play is easy. If you are looking for a fun game and a good laugh, this is definetly worth picking up.

As soon as I read about the Topsy Turvy gun, I knew I had to try this game. I have not been disappointed at all.
For those of you who are tired of all of the WWII games or any game with the same old selection of weapons, you need to try this game. It will spring new life into your love of shooters.
Just the Sticky Bombs alone had me hooked in the first 2 minutes.
The humor is excellent. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is the lack of multiplayer.

Crazy weapons. Good looking graphics. Wicked sense of humor. Shooting sheep, turning the world upside down and launching landsharks! Great fun!!

This is the second time that I've purchased this title. It has some very comical weapons you can use for a shooter type game. The "shark" gun will amuse you, along with a lot of comical dialect.
If you consider that "I" purchased this game twice, then you can pretty much be sold on that idea alone. Not to mention too much that I'm a veteran gamer for slightly over 25 years. If you can purchase this game for under $10.00, counting the shipping also? You just may want to grab it while you can. I really doubt you will be disappointed at all!

Don't know if the game is fun or not as it came with a serious virus on the disk. Sent it back for a refund. Hope they figure out where in the manufacturing process this was introduced.

I sent an email to Lucas Arts and got a reply 3 weeks later. On something with the title "virus in your product" you would think they would respond faster. Have to give customer service a bad score on that one.

An interesting concept that fails in delivery.
Single player is entertaining, if a bit repetitive. Interesting weapon concepts but not well-developed... coupled with poor enemy AI, and less-than-helpful allies (who often step into your line of fire and get themselves killed) makes the experience unsatisfying.
Occasional bugs and crass, off-color humor throughout detract from the fun.
Overall: a few cheap laughs without a lot of replay value. Could have used a bit more refining before release. Good for a weekend diversion but don't pay a lot for it.