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
@@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 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!
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 RU-vid 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 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.
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👊.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 🐕❤️
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 😂
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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)
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!
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.
I remember playing this game on the floor of an unbuilt home with my buddy whose dad had a PS2 and a tv to keep us busy while he was working. Phenomenal
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