Wanted: Dead takes a wild swing at early-noughties double-A gaming, and it's a miss. Albeit an almost loveable one. Our review:
I love them, I suspect, simply because I'm a member of Wanted: Dead's target audience of early middle-aged players who cut their teeth in the heyday of the"double-A game" - basically, games from the dawn of the broadband era, before Naughty Dog and Ubisoft forced every third-person rival to learn parkour and court comparison with HBO, before the ubiquity of Steam and the death of trade-ins, before every game had to involve a loot treadmill and a season pass.
The writing recovers a little during bigger story beats, which include some fairly fluid, if far from mind-expanding discussions of android sentience. There's also a touching flashback in which Stone has to comfort a kid whose mother has been murdered.
The game's tutorials do a poor job of teaching you the method behind this rather specific interpretation of CQC: it just walks you through the button inputs, then punts you pretty much immediately into duels with opponents who can kill you in a single combo. In particular, it took me a while to grasp the utility of the pistol.
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