Chicago Enforcer (Xbox)

by Touchdown Entertainment

Product Features

• X-box Live
• Online Multiplayer
• Friends
• Voice
• System Link 2-8

Product Details

• ASIN: B0006SST90
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 22, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,930 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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The horrific, steaming turd that is Chicago Enforcer, in a strange way proves the theory of universal balance. For every great positive force, there is an equally powerful negative force. In other words, if Halo 2 is, as many believe, the best console FPS to date, then Chicago Enforcer is easily the worst. This game is supposed to take players back to the mob-controlled 1920's, and I did indeed feel like I had gone back in time. Except I felt as if I was back in the early 1990's, playing a bad PC mod of the original Doom. With terrible level design, non-existent enemy AI, horrible graphics and tons of technical hiccups, Chicago Enforcer actually manages to do absolutely nothing interesting. Sure, it has Xbox Live, but good luck finding anyone playing this digital abomination online. It sucks in a vomitous, spirit-crushing kind of way.

Rated: 2 out of 10
Editor: Jeremy Zoss
Issue: March 2005




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1.0 out of 5 stars MIND-NUMBINGLY AWFUL... 1 OUT OF 10, March 8, 2009

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ACEMAN1 "HERE TO PISS YOU OFF" (Ripon, California) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chicago Enforcer (Xbox) (Video Game)

Drake of the 99 Dragons, give your "Worst Shooter Ever" award to this game instead! In 2001, the Xbox was graced with what would go down as one of the greatest games of all time; Halo. Because of the release of Halo, first-person shooters flooded the system and many of them were fairly good or at least average. The same year saw the release of Grand Theft Auto III, which gave what now people refer to as open-world gameplay and showed us that working for the mafia could quite fun in a game. However, when you mess up such a formula for a first-person shooter or a game based on the mafia, it can only end in an epic failure. When you combine both and f*** it up, that epic failure goes beyond epic failure. Chicago Enforcer is without a doubt the worst game I have ever played on the Xbox; and the system as a whole has a ton of awesome games. How the hell did this get past Microsoft's approval board exactly? God only knows.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Chicago. Era: 1930's. You take the role of a man named Jimmy "Machine Gun" DeMora who works for the infamous mobster Al Capone and you go out and take care of whoever the boss wants you to and you earn more respect from the group as you go along. There are ten levels to go through throughout Chicago.
GRAPHICS: Wow! I've never seen so many bricks in a game ever! Brick buildings everywhere! By the way, where the hell is everybody? For a city that was infamous for crime during this time it sure is empty. Did the apocalypse happen? Where is everyone? The game as a whole looks like it was supposed to be put on the N64 or even the PSone. I know it's a budget title, but come on this is ridiculous. Bland textures, repetitive enemy and civilian designs, repetitive environments, and just about everything looks the same. There are glitches, bad animation, etc.
MUSIC: There is nothing here to listen to. You'd think that since this was a mobster game based in the 1930's that maybe they'd actually have some music, but no.
SOUND: While critics panned the game, they said one of the only redeeming qualities was its voice-acting. I say otherwise. The voice-acting is stupid and it mostly sounds like it was done by only one person throughout the game. The gun sounds are nothing remarkable, but are adequate.
GAMEPLAY: The shooting controls are the only redeeming part of this horrible game. They work as any shooter on Xbox should. The main problem is the hit detection. Enemies will sometimes go down from one shot of a shotgun, while others may take up to five point-blank shots from the shotgun before they die, and chances are that you will be dead before you kill them, and then you get to redo the chapter again! One incident I recall of really bad hit detection was when I was armed with a Tommy Gun and I emptied twelve bullets, if not more, on one enemy and he still killed me. The AI in the game ranges from overly stupid to perfect accuracy with weapons. The game is also extremely cheap on health as you can die from two shots from a shotgun. Missions are generally no different from each other and are very, very repetitive and beyond boring. This game lacks any intensity or interesting elements a first-person shooter should have. This game is not exciting in the least bit and it sure as hell isn't intense at all. The only intense thing that will come from this is the tsunami of obscenities that will fly out of your mouth. You will die constantly, and after you die, you get sit through a 40-90 second load screen every time you have to restart or after a cutscene. I was about ready to throw my controller as hard as I could at my TV and the F-word was flying out of my mouth from being pissed off greatly due to the severe aggravation this game causes. If you find this game in a bargain bin, leave it there to rot. Don't be fooled by the cheap price tag. Or if you do buy it, destroy it immediately.
OVERALL: The Xbox is a console that is known for its craploads of awesome action titles, go find one of those awesome games. Don't look at this game, don't even give it a glancing stare. Playing it is about as masochistic as cheese-grating your knee caps while having Chuck Norris kick you in the junk repeatedly.
THE GOOD: The shooting controls.
THE BAD: Everything else.

3.0 out of 5 stars Work for Al Capone, April 18, 2006

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tvtv3 "tvtv3" (Sorento, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chicago Enforcer (Xbox) (Video Game)

In CHICAGO ENFORCER you play the role of Jimmy "Machine Gun" DeMora, a hit man in 1920s Chicago who works for the big man himself, Al Capone. When the game begins, you have limited weapons, but as you progress you pick up more items, but some of them can only be bought using the money you find and earn during the game. There are about ten different parts to the game with some parts consisting of two or three segments. The last level in the game has Jimmy having to escort Capone out of the hotel he is staying in.

The graphics on the game aren't that great and some of the weapons are rather limited in their scope and range. The challenges aren't really that difficult, though it did take me a several times on several levels to figure out how I could move on. For example, after destroying a warehouse you think you can sneak past the cops, but you can't and normally you don't want to shoot at cops because they can kill your character in three shots or less. However, in that level you have to kill each of the cops before moving on.

The load time on the game is incredibly slow and the game only saves after you finish an objective or mission. Nevertheless, I found the game to be fun and I enjoyed being a hit man for Capone. This game will frustrate and bore first rate gamers. However, beginner and average gamers who don't get frustrated by the slow load time might find the game enjoyable. I know I did.

3.0 out of 5 stars Average for the $20 games, February 27, 2006

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The Dude "Jeffrey Lebowski" (EH CT) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chicago Enforcer (Xbox) (Video Game)

This game is probably one of the best games out of the chepos that come out for $20 the story is pretty good the weapons and gameplay are ok
the anamition and levels/graphics are not that great the weapon firing is nothing special and weapon inventory is decent
I played this game for a few hours and played it a couple of different times
Some times it can be a little addicting wanting to play it but it ended up sitting on my shelf then getting traded in
If you are in to slow paced action games this is for you but if your not like moste everyone else this game is not for you