Its so hard for bad writing to entertain me and DTR strikes the perfect tone of stupidity but fun. Always get a good laugh out of it cus you can tell everyone working on the game was aware. Then the sequels tried to be edgier and lost the spark
@@Invidente7 That line will never not be funny to me. I remember laughing when I heard it when I rented it back in early 2003. It still makes me laugh to this day.
@@trobriandstorm Same here. Still love this game. Not sure why the second one isn't available digitally either. Wish it was because I'd buy it in a heartbeat as well.
A classic mish-mashed masterpiece of Syphon Filter's lock on, Max Payne's slowmo, every 90s action movie, and THE pioneer of kinda decent sixth gen beat em ups.
I kinda miss lock on in shooters. I wouldn't say manual aiming isn't superior, but lock on aiming is a nice change of pace from what we're used to in more modern games.
Whether I agree with the judgments or not (and I usually do), every single vid here ALWAYS makes me WANT to go play a videogame. Without a single exception whatsoever. THAT is one hell of an accomplishment whatever the channel, creator, OR topic in question!
I have so many good memories with this game. I spent so much time using cheats just to find new ways to keep it interesting. I actually really miss this game.
Rented this 2 or 3 weekends in a row for sleepovers with my best friend when it came out. He passed last year and this brings back so many great memories from that time in life
yeah and the fucking part where you have to protect that girl in the Chinese restaurant and the part where you have to fight that boxer guy it's so fucking annoying because like it just doesn't seem like there is any kind of strategy to it it just goes on its own
@@unchartedrocks1 imo, the 2nd game has fun gameplay but the story and levels kinda suck. I really liked a lot of Retribution and it had a lot of cool ideas, but it almost felt like less than the sum of its parts.
8:35 The auto shotgun is a Pancor Jackhammer which also goes by Mk3A1. It popped up in a decent amount of games around that time since it looks cool. Was definitely in Max Payne in 2001 and in the first Far Cry in 2004. First game it appeared in was Fallout 2 in 1998. Also been in a couple Battlefield games and it was pretty fun to mess around with in BF3. Probably the most rediculous version of it is in The Darkness since for some ungodly reason it has a 64 shell capacity. It's a neat gun if not rather bulky but you can never forget the style it has. Forgotten Weapons has a nice vid about it for those wanting to learn more about it.
It (along with half a dozen other ridiculous awesome pseudomythic firearms - including the H&K G11!) is modded into my copy of Fallout New Vegas... can confirm, Pancor Jackhammer is the shit. It's like combat shotgun from fallout 3 levels of OP, but to multiplied to some exponential amount 😆
You wanna know something embarrassing? This game was so influential on my young life (I think I was 9 when I picked this up) that after I cleared selection I asked to go to K9 school while I was in the military. I was granted the request and spent my time with a dog by my side. Unfortunately not quite the same experience, but still super fun nonetheless. Kind of crazy that this “so bad its good” masterpiece literally altered the course of my life.
That's not crazy at all. In fact it's quite common. How many kids do you think started skateboarding in real life because of Tony Hawks Pro Skater? Video games are just like any other piece of art. Art can influence and inspire. The difference is that video games are just art you can play with
You think that's bad, just watch the scene when the mayoral candidate Gloria Exner pulls a gun on him. Then when Exner gets shot, it was not only revealed to be Hildy, but Jack reacts to it in an unexpected way. First, he is not shocked that Exner was shot, but he also acts like a teenage boy when he said that after everything is finished that he and Hildy would get together.
@@Rschr101 Yeah, but this was more on the Universal Soldier/Bloodsport/Hard Target/The Quest side. Than the "I'm gonna play my twin for the 10th time" or Double Team side.
@@Rschr101 na universal target and time cop were big budget action movies with decent effects at the time they might not hold up now but there were reasons they were no 1 at box office back in the day
I smiled when I saw the thumbnail. You are an absolute legend for acknowledging and playing this game man. My mom rented this at blockbuster (for those who know what that place was) because they didn't have the game I wanted. Put that thang in the ps2 and fell in love. Hands down one of the most underrated third person shooters ever! I've had so many hours and fond memories playing this game and used the cheats like 'gun con' and unlimited slow-mo lol. This game is a masterpiece as you said. Well done on the review 👌🏽. I wish they had a remastered version of this. Btw the RUclips caption intereprets the character Augie Blatz as "Orgy Blitz" so there's that...
If they ever do a remaster, they might have to adjust the look of the lovely redhead though. While I doubt it was intentional considering how old the game is, she looks an awful lot like Felicia Day…on her poster anyway(and in this video’s thumbnail image). The pixelated 3D model coulda been Felicia Day, Emma Stone, or Lucille Ball…who knows?(Hell, it coulda been Carrot Top from what I could tell. Characters in these old games pushed hardware to it’s limits displaying the few pixels they were able to use to look like a person as it was already…and most of what they did use…well…I doubt there were many 14 year old boys exclaiming to their friends during the pole dance scene, “Wow! Look at all the detail in her…FACE!”)
I remember playing this game as a kid, it's still really fun even though I don't know English. Definitely amazing game So bygone era is where games are fun, not scared to be offensive, creative because of hardware limitations, know what they're doing (mostly). And best of all, the game is in full version, no need for patches, DLCs to make it better!
Fun fact. In the GBA version, instead of collecting packs of cigarettes in prison, you collect comic books! I guess they wanted kids to relate to this brutal story, without ever wanting to start smoking...
Along with the Evil Dead video games, Gmanlives also managed to resurrect interest and bring life to another bygone title of this era. Thank you so much in helping us (re)discover these games as the developers intended. Hopefully in the near future, the Dead to Rights Saga would better help gamers introduce if the sequels are worth a try. Love your vids, dawg. Keep up the good work👊.
I remember my brother in law getting this game as a gift from my parents. Of course he just had to play it when we were all there. I was 13 and my sister was 16 and of course, his wife and my parents were all there to witness the stripper dance sequence. It was uncomfortably awkward for everyone...however, I was intrigued. Another great look at this forgotten 6th gen game Gman, hoping you get to cover the rest of the series at some point.
When you showed the blurry vision when fighting the retired boxer, it unlocked memories of the game “beat down fists of vengeance” I loved that game when I was little
My brother and I had the unfortunate experience of playing through this for the Xbox. A lot of nights of straight up RAGE. Eventually my brother couldn't take it anymore and snapped the disc in half lol
A solid "B movie" knock of of the legendary Max Payne. Clearly intended for a controller, and that's OK. I actually really like the first game, and I guess I'm one of the weirdos that enjoyed the more "realistic" ammo system.
Nostalgia hits hard, It's a damn good game... I remember when I played this back in 2005 or '06 on a Pentium4 PC I have not tried any sequels did not even know they existed. It's one of rare gems not many people know about. I also remember playing "Second Sight (PC)" around the same time.
0:59 is one of the funniest Christopher Walken impressions I"ve ever heard, and in a game no less. Probably only second to The Robot that Whittles from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
I bought the Xbox version when it came out because, as an Xbox fanboy in 2002, it was a huge deal to support every exclusive and quasi-exclusive I could. So, I bought the game at full-price (minus the employee discount!) just to have an opinion about it. There's that section when you're in prison (that you discovered!) and have to bench press a whole bunch of weight to impress the other prisoners, something like that, which was the hardest thing I've probably ever had to do in a video game. I had to concoct an entirely new way to jackhammer the A button to get the weight up. My hand was so damn sore. Never did beat the game.
I remember finishing this game about 2 years ago on my ps2. It was sitting in my collection for the longest time until christmas break rolled around and with the extra time decided to try it out. Best christmas break I had. Truly a great game from a bygone era
Loved this game, especially the 2nd one. Had a female Siberian husky that I named Shadow because of these games. She passed 3 years ago. R.I.P. to my baby 🐕❤️
Hell fucking yeah. Requested this one for years. First Darkwatch, now this. Let's keep the ball rolling: Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy GUN Brute Force Headhunter X-Squad Syphon Filter series
It's basically a more masculine John Woo mixed with a noir plot about corruption and stealing old gold. The sequel is that but Jack has been subsisting on a diet of pure tren.
SA Let's Play of this game is a pretty fantastic read. Lots of extra stuff thrown in. Longshoreman X lives on in my memory thanks to it. ZP also had a great quote about the sequel: "...where you are transported to a pocket dimension where pain is god and Jack Slate is pope."
I had this game back in the day. My college roommates and I sat around the TV. One guy played till he got too frustrated, then the next guy, and on and on until we finally beat the damn thing. Then I sold it at Gamestop the next day.
13:10 Yes, my dad did just so happen to walk in on six year old me and the rest of the night wasn’t very fun. Didn’t get to play it again until I was at my older brother’s place months later. I still had Max Payne though, so I survived.
I absolutely love this game, everything about it. It's suppose to have that noir, yet tongue-in-cheek writing that doesn't take itself too seriously. It's a hidden relic of a by gone era in gaming.
Man i remeber that day, my boss called up told me get to this factory, he needed me there. Jack beat every single one of us up, and since I've never returned to dockworking
That Christopher Walken impression was magnificent. This sort of game from this era of gaming is one of the styles that I truly miss. Not to mention how absurd and endearingly low-production-value it comes off as.
The slow mo shotgun disarms are still the coolest shit. Loved that you could cycle through the camera angles and speed for the best possible angle. An unflinching love letter to video game brutality like few other !
I remember my older brother playing this. The prison section stuck out to me and for some reason I don’t remember the stripper scene. I was eight what did I know.
my mom gifted me this game on my birthday. im pretty sure it was on 3cd disks. aaaaaand this game was hard for a lil kid, so my older brother finished full game for me. i remember he was so mad during prison level too 😂
Wow, you didn't mention the reality defying motorcycle jump with the airplane. That was my favorite laugh out loud moment of Dead to Rights. I never could beat it. I got to the final boss at the flaming hands stage and just couldn't win. I may have not known about the whole throw him in the furnace thing.
Memories UNLOCKED! Me and my cousin played this religiously on the PS2! We rented it from Blockbuster and never returned it because of how much we loved it!
Being able to use the dog, shoot explosive canisters, and brutal executions, absolutely blew my mind. At that age I never even realized the obvious bites off max Payne, which was another game I adored. Still do.
I remember playing this and being amazed at the amount of mechanics they managed to cram into a single 3rd person shooter. This is more than a Max Payne clone IMO. Also, at the time, I had assumed it was based on a movie although I couldn't find which, so thanks for clearing that up!
31:19 I cannot believe you cut away before the most epic one-liner in history! But all jokes aside, Dead to Rights is one of those jankfests that are frustratingly hard at times, but the unintentional silliness of it is what keeps people going. I can only recommend you take a good look at Dead to Rights: Retribution, as well. It's not only a wildly different game, it also has some really impressive voice work stuck to it. And I mean that in the "unironically pretty good" way.
Dead To Rights is Awesome! Flawed in many areas but very very fun! I also love the tone and humor (both intentional and from the so bad it’s good delivery)
The cover mechanic for a third person shooter was started by Namco USA (Namco Hometek) in Dead to Rights and Killswitch. In fact epic games said Gears of Wars combat was I spired bu Killswitch.
I've played this game one time in my life and it has stuck with me since. had to get rid of my ps2 collection as a teen and this was a treasured piece of mine
Aww man that's Rino Romano voicing the player character! He was my favorite Spider-Man voice actor in the Neversoft games! He also did Spidey in Spider-Man Unlimited.
I really loved games like This and Oni from back in the day. Both had a mix of hand to hand and gun combat, insane difficulty spikes, and a rogue cop turned spree killer. We need more of these
Auggie Blatz: "Officer Slate what brings you out on a night like tonight?" I still love this game. The dialogue was absolutely hilarious at times and it had a great mix of shooting and fighting with some awesome levels and boss fights throughout. It was very hard in places as well. I played retribution a few years ago and although it had some good game play they ripped out the soul of the game in my opinion with a story and characters that had none of the heart or wit of the PS2 game.
those two voice cracks and the christopher walken impressionist character made me laugh so hard that i had to pause and do a double take of what i just heard
The ending with the gas mask and hand to hand combat is literally the same as the ending of the jet Li game , it involves gas and a mask between you and the villain and everything, and even the protagonist is wearing similar jacket and jeans as jet Li.
Yeeeees! G Man hit the nail on the head, Dead to Rights is excellent! As a little kid I got stuck on the torture scene for a long ass time because I couldn’t mash the buttons quick enough. Only hiccup for me in an otherwise amazing game.
Before seeing this video I was reliving this game via backwards compat on xbox and im glad im not the only one who thinks this game is a masterpiece! Also Augie's voice acting was terribly amazing.
This game looks really good for 2002 ps2. The ps2 was my console growing up and I rarely saw something looking as good as the first dead to rights on that console. The animation quality, everything. It’s like the developers had their headphones in while sony explained the console limitations
* Forgotten memory unlocked * Remember that I played one of these games way back when, breaking the keyboard crossed my mind crossed my mind multiple times back then.
Man, this was such a trip down memory lane for me. When I was a kid I played the hell out of this game...on the GBA. I remember eventually realizing that it was out on consoles too, so I watched a playthrough and was losing my mind at how much more badass it looked compared to the GBA version, which was already pretty fun for what it was. Thank you Sonny Jim, I felt like a carefree 12 year old again for just a few moments.
Man this is a trip for me. I remember a main selling point on this game being the intense executions and overall mature content. It was going for that hyper edgy vibe at a time things when things were getting spicy (manhunt, GTA hookers, et al) I can’t remember much, but every other second I get that sweet nostalgic kick watching this vid. Nice!
This game is an old souvenir with some of my ex-colleagues, a decade and a half ago. Just us, some beers and this frustrating gold nugget of a game. Priceless.
The Dead To Rights franchise is the only one I know that actually proceeds in reverse. DtR2 is a prequel to the first, and Reckoning to DtR2. Retribution is a reboot but my point still stands.
FINALLY - someone acknowledges this masterpiece of dialogue writing and storytelling!
"and for God's sake, put some clothes on!"
Its so hard for bad writing to entertain me and DTR strikes the perfect tone of stupidity but fun. Always get a good laugh out of it cus you can tell everyone working on the game was aware. Then the sequels tried to be edgier and lost the spark
@@Invidente7 That line will never not be funny to me. I remember laughing when I heard it when I rented it back in early 2003. It still makes me laugh to this day.
@@Invidente7 Jack Slate - feminist.
The prisoner in the top prison block eagerly waiting to get reemed was funny.
Bought this game from a thrift shop for 2 dollars. Best 2 dollars I’ve ever spent in my life.
dude you're so lucky lol this game is worth more than 2 dollars...good job sir lol
i dunno i got postal 2 for 2 bucks
I re bought it on the xbox store some time ago. i don't know that happened to my old ass ps2 copy. Shame 2 isnt available digitally.
@@jknifgijdfui postal 2 is another classic thats dope
@@trobriandstorm Same here. Still love this game. Not sure why the second one isn't available digitally either. Wish it was because I'd buy it in a heartbeat as well.
I remember this game so fondly. Spent so much time on it as a kid!
Poor kid
Dan the Man!
@@TheHeroOfTime777 👋
mee too
Me too, especially the stripper parts 😂
A classic mish-mashed masterpiece of Syphon Filter's lock on, Max Payne's slowmo, every 90s action movie, and THE pioneer of kinda decent sixth gen beat em ups.
I kinda miss lock on in shooters. I wouldn't say manual aiming isn't superior, but lock on aiming is a nice change of pace from what we're used to in more modern games.
@@RGR490G 'twas a simpler time.
Lock was the right choice in DTR cus it keeps the action nonstop. Syphon Filters nice cus it's kinda tactical with its accuracy system.
And the high difficulty of metal gear solid.
Whether I agree with the judgments or not (and I usually do), every single vid here ALWAYS makes me WANT to go play a videogame. Without a single exception whatsoever. THAT is one hell of an accomplishment whatever the channel, creator, OR topic in question!
Your absolutely right ✅
@@Drawnartist *You're
Fax!
@@cn.st.182 😁 thanks
I have so many good memories with this game. I spent so much time using cheats just to find new ways to keep it interesting. I actually really miss this game.
Rented this 2 or 3 weekends in a row for sleepovers with my best friend when it came out. He passed last year and this brings back so many great memories from that time in life
May your friend rest in peace.
I remember only two things about this game: the awful prison level, and the ridiculously hard cemetery one xD . Great video!
bro fr and the one where you have to rescue the dude I forget from like a factory or some shit bro I loved this game tho lol
shit wait that might have been the second one
yeah and the fucking part where you have to protect that girl in the Chinese restaurant and the part where you have to fight that boxer guy it's so fucking annoying because like it just doesn't seem like there is any kind of strategy to it it just goes on its own
If there's a cooler action hero name than Jack Slate, I've never heard it.
Rex Powercolt?
Max Payne, just cuz of the pun alone
Jack Slater?
Max Power
Agreed
Dead to Rights is an amazing franchise, just straight up badass fun.
Yea you should play the one on gba and tell me it's good lol
@@printisdead1983 eh, you can't win them all
disagree. only Dead to Rights 1 is good. the 2nd game is shit 💩 & the 3rd game is highly forgettable.
@@unchartedrocks1 your opinion
@@unchartedrocks1 imo, the 2nd game has fun gameplay but the story and levels kinda suck. I really liked a lot of Retribution and it had a lot of cool ideas, but it almost felt like less than the sum of its parts.
8:35 The auto shotgun is a Pancor Jackhammer which also goes by Mk3A1. It popped up in a decent amount of games around that time since it looks cool.
Was definitely in Max Payne in 2001 and in the first Far Cry in 2004. First game it appeared in was Fallout 2 in 1998. Also been in a couple Battlefield games and it was pretty fun to mess around with in BF3. Probably the most rediculous version of it is in The Darkness since for some ungodly reason it has a 64 shell capacity.
It's a neat gun if not rather bulky but you can never forget the style it has. Forgotten Weapons has a nice vid about it for those wanting to learn more about it.
I even remember one dude on Mikeburnfire who's just so livid against the Pancor Jackhammer. He actually got his hands on it and straight up hated.
@@battlion507 When'd they mention they got their hands on one? I was under the impression that there's just 3 problematic prototypes.
It (along with half a dozen other ridiculous awesome pseudomythic firearms - including the H&K G11!) is modded into my copy of Fallout New Vegas... can confirm, Pancor Jackhammer is the shit.
It's like combat shotgun from fallout 3 levels of OP, but to multiplied to some exponential amount 😆
Pancor Jackhammer aka the gun that deserves to not exist
@@thepolarphantasm2319 HKG11 was the SHIT in Falllout 2, had everything: firepower, range, huge clip and of course amazing looks.
You wanna know something embarrassing? This game was so influential on my young life (I think I was 9 when I picked this up) that after I cleared selection I asked to go to K9 school while I was in the military. I was granted the request and spent my time with a dog by my side.
Unfortunately not quite the same experience, but still super fun nonetheless. Kind of crazy that this “so bad its good” masterpiece literally altered the course of my life.
That's not crazy at all. In fact it's quite common. How many kids do you think started skateboarding in real life because of Tony Hawks Pro Skater? Video games are just like any other piece of art. Art can influence and inspire. The difference is that video games are just art you can play with
Dad; whatchyu doing son
Me: playing this mini game where I distract the guards from spotting Jack
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😂
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That mini game is hard. (Well outside of the drowning mini game of course)
Damn, Jack was more cut up about Eve dying than his dad.
You think that's bad, just watch the scene when the mayoral candidate Gloria Exner pulls a gun on him. Then when Exner gets shot, it was not only revealed to be Hildy, but Jack reacts to it in an unexpected way. First, he is not shocked that Exner was shot, but he also acts like a teenage boy when he said that after everything is finished that he and Hildy would get together.
I loved the first two games. Felt like playing a b-rate Jean Claude Van Dam movie.
All of Van Dammes movies were B-rate tho.
@@Rschr101 Yeah, but this was more on the Universal Soldier/Bloodsport/Hard Target/The Quest side.
Than the "I'm gonna play my twin for the 10th time" or Double Team side.
@@Rschr101 na universal target and time cop were big budget action movies with decent effects at the time they might not hold up now but there were reasons they were no 1 at box office back in the day
@@Rschr101 L comment
@@Rschr101 thats the joke bro
Couldn't click this fast enough, this game was my pre teen years. Love you Gman
F to doubt.
Holy cow, someone else who knows the greatness the Dead to Rights
I'm actually kind of surprised you hadn't reviewed this franchise sooner. I'm already feeling the nostalgia with this one!
I smiled when I saw the thumbnail. You are an absolute legend for acknowledging and playing this game man. My mom rented this at blockbuster (for those who know what that place was) because they didn't have the game I wanted. Put that thang in the ps2 and fell in love. Hands down one of the most underrated third person shooters ever! I've had so many hours and fond memories playing this game and used the cheats like 'gun con' and unlimited slow-mo lol. This game is a masterpiece as you said. Well done on the review 👌🏽. I wish they had a remastered version of this.
Btw the RUclips caption intereprets the character Augie Blatz as "Orgy Blitz" so there's that...
If they ever do a remaster, they might have to adjust the look of the lovely redhead though. While I doubt it was intentional considering how old the game is, she looks an awful lot like Felicia Day…on her poster anyway(and in this video’s thumbnail image). The pixelated 3D model coulda been Felicia Day, Emma Stone, or Lucille Ball…who knows?(Hell, it coulda been Carrot Top from what I could tell. Characters in these old games pushed hardware to it’s limits displaying the few pixels they were able to use to look like a person as it was already…and most of what they did use…well…I doubt there were many 14 year old boys exclaiming to their friends during the pole dance scene, “Wow! Look at all the detail in her…FACE!”)
I remember playing this game as a kid, it's still really fun even though I don't know English. Definitely amazing game
So bygone era is where games are fun, not scared to be offensive, creative because of hardware limitations, know what they're doing (mostly).
And best of all, the game is in full version, no need for patches, DLCs to make it better!
Good times when developers made fun games they wanted to play, not games to pander to certains groups (coff coff Twitter).
Let’s not pretend games wouldn’t have had DLC, MTX, and patches if it were possible back in the day. Devs couldn’t afford to be lazy.
I literally never knew this game had more parts, I thought Retrebution was the only Dead to Rights game. Would love if you covered the others as well
Retribution was hot dog water compared to this game. Franchise deserved better than what that game was
@@CarterPresentsComics chill tf out it was honestly not that bad..
@@CarterPresentsComics It was better than the second game. Now THAT was a piece of trash.
It was the opposite for me. I didn't know Dead to Right even had any sequels lol
@@CarterPresentsComics retribution isn't even bad
Fun fact. In the GBA version, instead of collecting packs of cigarettes in prison, you collect comic books! I guess they wanted kids to relate to this brutal story, without ever wanting to start smoking...
LMAO
Along with the Evil Dead video games, Gmanlives also managed to resurrect interest and bring life to another bygone title of this era. Thank you so much in helping us (re)discover these games as the developers intended. Hopefully in the near future, the Dead to Rights Saga would better help gamers introduce if the sequels are worth a try.
Love your vids, dawg. Keep up the good work👊.
I remember my brother in law getting this game as a gift from my parents. Of course he just had to play it when we were all there. I was 13 and my sister was 16 and of course, his wife and my parents were all there to witness the stripper dance sequence. It was uncomfortably awkward for everyone...however, I was intrigued.
Another great look at this forgotten 6th gen game Gman, hoping you get to cover the rest of the series at some point.
OMG I remember playing this game on ps2 when I was a kid this thing aged like gold from the terrible dialogue to it’s adorable husky dog
The dog was great.
Im playing it now. This game is hilarious 😂
I loved this game, granted I was playing the far more balanced PS2 version.
That one is a hell of a lot of fun.
I thought Gamecube was the balanced one.
@@NucleaRaptor ps2 and GameCube are exactly the same
"Dead to rights?"
"Dead to rights."
- Retsupurae
When you showed the blurry vision when fighting the retired boxer, it unlocked memories of the game “beat down fists of vengeance”
I loved that game when I was little
Absolutely love that game Beatdown. Cool to see someone else who does, too! It has a ton of secrets in it that I still haven't gotten.
One of my favourite games of all time.
7:40 That "Rolling Thunder" rifle disarm actually looks pretty damn good!
I looooved Dead to Rights. Its the game that got me into ultra challenging games.
Yeah, that and ninja gaiden for Xbox was great
My brother and I had the unfortunate experience of playing through this for the Xbox. A lot of nights of straight up RAGE.
Eventually my brother couldn't take it anymore and snapped the disc in half lol
🤣
Get good 😂
@@meandab lol
What the PS2 version better? Jus curious
He did good dumb game max payne ripoff
A solid "B movie" knock of of the legendary Max Payne. Clearly intended for a controller, and that's OK. I actually really like the first game, and I guess I'm one of the weirdos that enjoyed the more "realistic" ammo system.
This came before max payne
@@DonYoGi8331no it didn’t, it released a year later
Nostalgia hits hard, It's a damn good game... I remember when I played this back in 2005 or '06 on a Pentium4 PC I have not tried any sequels did not even know they existed.
It's one of rare gems not many people know about. I also remember playing "Second Sight (PC)" around the same time.
0:59 is one of the funniest Christopher Walken impressions I"ve ever heard, and in a game no less.
Probably only second to The Robot that Whittles from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
I bought the Xbox version when it came out because, as an Xbox fanboy in 2002, it was a huge deal to support every exclusive and quasi-exclusive I could. So, I bought the game at full-price (minus the employee discount!) just to have an opinion about it. There's that section when you're in prison (that you discovered!) and have to bench press a whole bunch of weight to impress the other prisoners, something like that, which was the hardest thing I've probably ever had to do in a video game. I had to concoct an entirely new way to jackhammer the A button to get the weight up. My hand was so damn sore. Never did beat the game.
Perfection is, when you come home after a 11h long day at college & work and you see a 6 min old review by ya boiii gmanlives. Shieeeeet
this and true crime were the jams back in the day.
First true crime was meh, loved the sequel
We need more games like this. Make games great again.
MGGA...hey, I can get behind that!
Bruh I will never not find the smiling characters in your thumbnails to be hilarious. PLEASE never stop.
Seconded
Dead to Rights: Retribution was criminally underrated. Very fun game!
I was just looking this game up. Someone did a review on it recently I’m glad that you did as well
I remember finishing this game about 2 years ago on my ps2. It was sitting in my collection for the longest time until christmas break rolled around and with the extra time decided to try it out. Best christmas break I had. Truly a great game from a bygone era
That's pathetic
@@douggaudiosi14 thanks
Wow, I've been looking for this game for like 15 years. Bless you
Loved this game, especially the 2nd one. Had a female Siberian husky that I named Shadow because of these games. She passed 3 years ago. R.I.P. to my baby 🐕❤️
Hell fucking yeah. Requested this one for years. First Darkwatch, now this.
Let's keep the ball rolling:
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
GUN
Brute Force
Headhunter
X-Squad
Syphon Filter series
He did gun
Brute Force, yes.
God the title alone made me flashback to a vague memory of childhood.
No clue what the game is about though lol
It's basically a more masculine John Woo mixed with a noir plot about corruption and stealing old gold. The sequel is that but Jack has been subsisting on a diet of pure tren.
SA Let's Play of this game is a pretty fantastic read. Lots of extra stuff thrown in. Longshoreman X lives on in my memory thanks to it.
ZP also had a great quote about the sequel: "...where you are transported to a pocket dimension where pain is god and Jack Slate is pope."
Rented this from Blockbuster way back when for Gamecube. Love this game!
The GameCube version was awful.
@@Austin-iv2gl it was very dark depending on the TV. I played it recently and it’s fine
The small editing choices make these reviews 100% better & they’re pretty spot on as it is ..
That Snoop Dogg one had be howling ( Excuse the pun )
Remember renting this one back in the day for the GC. Always loved how it felt like playing a Sega arcade game. Now I want to play it again.
You mean, like Die Hard Arcade?
How does this feel like a Sega arcade game
I had this game back in the day. My college roommates and I sat around the TV. One guy played till he got too frustrated, then the next guy, and on and on until we finally beat the damn thing. Then I sold it at Gamestop the next day.
13:10 Yes, my dad did just so happen to walk in on six year old me and the rest of the night wasn’t very fun. Didn’t get to play it again until I was at my older brother’s place months later. I still had Max Payne though, so I survived.
I've been waiting so long for you to cover this. One of the most memorable games i played in my childhood.
My heart still belongs to LONGSHOREMAN X all these years later. The longest of shoremen, he was.
I think Namco should have done a spin-off with that character. Maybe do a slasher type of game.
I absolutely love this game, everything about it. It's suppose to have that noir, yet tongue-in-cheek writing that doesn't take itself too seriously. It's a hidden relic of a by gone era in gaming.
I got this game from my uncle one of the best games I've ever played
Man i remeber that day, my boss called up told me get to this factory, he needed me there. Jack beat every single one of us up, and since I've never returned to dockworking
That Christopher Walken impression was magnificent. This sort of game from this era of gaming is one of the styles that I truly miss. Not to mention how absurd and endearingly low-production-value it comes off as.
The slow mo shotgun disarms are still the coolest shit. Loved that you could cycle through the camera angles and speed for the best possible angle. An unflinching love letter to video game brutality like few other !
I remember my older brother playing this. The prison section stuck out to me and for some reason I don’t remember the stripper scene. I was eight what did I know.
my mom gifted me this game on my birthday. im pretty sure it was on 3cd disks. aaaaaand this game was hard for a lil kid, so my older brother finished full game for me. i remember he was so mad during prison level too 😂
Bro this is the game I so faintly remember thank you so much for making a video on it so nostalgic
Correction! The hardest place on Earth is in my pants.
Wow, you didn't mention the reality defying motorcycle jump with the airplane. That was my favorite laugh out loud moment of Dead to Rights. I never could beat it. I got to the final boss at the flaming hands stage and just couldn't win. I may have not known about the whole throw him in the furnace thing.
Another brilliant video as always!
I loved this game. I had no idea that it was originally going to be based on Escape from New York. That gameplay looked pretty awesome.
“Thankfully in the years that have passed since, the industry has learned that’s a dumb idea”
Not quite, souls/Borne games still exist
🤣🤝🙂 Advertising and freebies do wonders!
Dude just unlocked a major memory for me with this video once I saw the dog I bugged out
Memories UNLOCKED! Me and my cousin played this religiously on the PS2! We rented it from Blockbuster and never returned it because of how much we loved it!
One of my favorite games of that console generation. Mindless shooting action at a time when that was all I wanted as a teen
Being able to use the dog, shoot explosive canisters, and brutal executions, absolutely blew my mind. At that age I never even realized the obvious bites off max Payne, which was another game I adored. Still do.
These thumbnails are so amazing. I loved D2R. It was the ultimate bromance between a man and his dog.
i got this game bundled with my original Xbox when i was 13 and i loved it. lots of nostalgia in this upload thanks.
I remember playing this and being amazed at the amount of mechanics they managed to cram into a single 3rd person shooter. This is more than a Max Payne clone IMO. Also, at the time, I had assumed it was based on a movie although I couldn't find which, so thanks for clearing that up!
31:19 I cannot believe you cut away before the most epic one-liner in history! But all jokes aside, Dead to Rights is one of those jankfests that are frustratingly hard at times, but the unintentional silliness of it is what keeps people going. I can only recommend you take a good look at Dead to Rights: Retribution, as well. It's not only a wildly different game, it also has some really impressive voice work stuck to it. And I mean that in the "unironically pretty good" way.
Dead To Rights is Awesome! Flawed in many areas but very very fun! I also love the tone and humor (both intentional and from the so bad it’s good delivery)
The cover mechanic for a third person shooter was started by Namco USA (Namco Hometek) in Dead to Rights and Killswitch. In fact epic games said Gears of Wars combat was I spired bu Killswitch.
I've played this game one time in my life and it has stuck with me since. had to get rid of my ps2 collection as a teen and this was a treasured piece of mine
I just wanna say, all your videos make my day every time, thanks man.
Aww man that's Rino Romano voicing the player character! He was my favorite Spider-Man voice actor in the Neversoft games! He also did Spidey in Spider-Man Unlimited.
I got this a week ago from eBay can’t wait for it to come in mail. As soon as I beat the game I wanna check this review out love the channel so much
I really loved games like This and Oni from back in the day. Both had a mix of hand to hand and gun combat, insane difficulty spikes, and a rogue cop turned spree killer. We need more of these
Auggie Blatz:
"Officer Slate what brings you out on a night like tonight?"
I still love this game. The dialogue was absolutely hilarious at times and it had a great mix of shooting and fighting with some awesome levels and boss fights throughout. It was very hard in places as well.
I played retribution a few years ago and although it had some good game play they ripped out the soul of the game in my opinion with a story and characters that had none of the heart or wit of the PS2 game.
those two voice cracks and the christopher walken impressionist character made me laugh so hard that i had to pause and do a double take of what i just heard
Ah man, such a good range of clips. American Psycho and the Adam Sandler's "You!". Never a bad time for either.
The ending with the gas mask and hand to hand combat is literally the same as the ending of the jet Li game , it involves gas and a mask between you and the villain and everything, and even the protagonist is wearing similar jacket and jeans as jet Li.
Yeeeees! G Man hit the nail on the head, Dead to Rights is excellent! As a little kid I got stuck on the torture scene for a long ass time because I couldn’t mash the buttons quick enough. Only hiccup for me in an otherwise amazing game.
love that you're back to covering older games you enjoy, cause i played the shit out of this game growing up. keep it up my guy
one of my favorite childhood video games, I didn't even watch the video but the first dead to rights was amazing!!
The memory of my dad walking in on me during the stripper mini game is one that I will cherish until I die.
Before seeing this video I was reliving this game via backwards compat on xbox and im glad im not the only one who thinks this game is a masterpiece! Also Augie's voice acting was terribly amazing.
This game looks really good for 2002 ps2. The ps2 was my console growing up and I rarely saw something looking as good as the first dead to rights on that console. The animation quality, everything. It’s like the developers had their headphones in while sony explained the console limitations
* Forgotten memory unlocked * Remember that I played one of these games way back when, breaking the keyboard crossed my mind crossed my mind multiple times back then.
Man, this was such a trip down memory lane for me. When I was a kid I played the hell out of this game...on the GBA. I remember eventually realizing that it was out on consoles too, so I watched a playthrough and was losing my mind at how much more badass it looked compared to the GBA version, which was already pretty fun for what it was. Thank you Sonny Jim, I felt like a carefree 12 year old again for just a few moments.
Still can't get over "Grant City: hardest place on Earth"
Man this is a trip for me.
I remember a main selling point on this game being the intense executions and overall mature content. It was going for that hyper edgy vibe at a time things when things were getting spicy (manhunt, GTA hookers, et al)
I can’t remember much, but every other second I get that sweet nostalgic kick watching this vid.
Nice!
This game is an old souvenir with some of my ex-colleagues, a decade and a half ago. Just us, some beers and this frustrating gold nugget of a game. Priceless.
The Dead To Rights franchise is the only one I know that actually proceeds in reverse. DtR2 is a prequel to the first, and Reckoning to DtR2. Retribution is a reboot but my point still stands.
dead to rights retribution is so badass flying knee throwing people around felt so satisfying and you can play as dog
Dead to Rights is a pioneer for modern games like RDR2 which uses the exact gameplay for most of it. Lock-on, Press button, watch enemy die.
Having you upload on my birthday is a wonderful thing, thank you
Happy birthday!
@@Gggmanlives thank you! And its just got even better because you replied lol