Armed and Dangerous demo

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

You are the leader of a four-man squad determined to retrieve the Book of Rule from the clutches of the evil King Forge. Despite the medieval trappings, this world is ruled by machine guns and proximity mines. An excellent amount of explosives and some well-staged commentary from your comrades give a nice boost to this somewhat conventional third-person shooter.

In the two-mission demo, you control Roman in an assault on a castle and in a rescue mission involving a golden sheep. Movement and firing controls are conventional for third-party shooters, and squad management is extremely limited: Pressing 1 sends your squad forward to attack, and 3 brings them behind you for cover. Most of the environments in the game are deliciously destructible. Well-munitioned pubs provide specialty firepower such as rocket launchers, Land Shark guns, and Topsy-Turvy bombs that literally turn the world upside down. Still, the plain-old machine gun often is your most effective weapon, simply for its rate of fire. The graphics are detailed and the explosions are quite fun, but the overall effects are nothing remarkable. The colorful commentary adds spice to the proceedings, though, and a low learning curve lets almost anyone pick up the game quickly.

Publisher's description

From LucasArts Entertainment :

Players take on the role of Roman, a Cockney criminal mastermind and leader of a gang of accidental heroes known as the Lionhearts. Armed to the hilt with an arsenal of outrageously powerful firearms, Roman and his crew of Robin Hood wannabes--Jonesy, Q1-11, and Rexus--set out to pull off the ultimate heist and unwittingly are drawn into a rebellion against a tyrant king. In the process, the Lionhearts learn that some treasures aren't worth stealing and some things are more valuable than gold. Based on a true story.

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