Wanted: Dead

by Aethyna Feb 18, 2023 | 1 Votes | 32 Played | 0 Reviews

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110 Industries Together with your team, fight your way through throngs of enemies, be it mercs or gangsters, as you set off on a mission to uncover a major conspiracy surrounding Dauer, the megacorporation that developed synthetics and military hardware in this thrilling action-packed game, Wanted: Dead! Play Now Similar Games

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Summary

Wanted: Dead is a thrilling action-packed game with a mix of both cover shooter and close quarter, hack-and-slash that’s set in a dystopian, cyberpunk Hong Kong. Playing as an ex-soldier and inmate, Lieutenant Hannah Stone, you are given a chance out of your life imprisonment to head the government’s special cyborg unit and become it’s new “weapon”. Fight your way through throngs of enemies, be it mercs or gangsters, as you set off on a mission to uncover a major conspiracy surrounding Dauer, the megacorporation that developed synthetics and military hardware like battle droids!

Plotline

In this game, you play as inmate A1120, Lieutenant Hannah Stone, serving out life imprisonment in a Hong Kong prison set in a dystopian, cyberpunk future. However, one day, you were recruited by the government to head its special cyborg forces program. With your new teammates, Doc, Herzog, and Cortez, your team, the zombie unit, became the government’s new “weapon”, doing whatever that needs to be done in the name of… well, democracy.

The team’s first mission? To uncover a major conspiracy surrounding Dauer, the megacorporation that developed synthetics that cyborgs like Lt. Stone wears, and military hardware like battle droids.

Gameplay

The gameplay here is mostly fluid and responsive, perfectly suited for an action-filled game like Wanted: Dead. The character you play in the game is mostly proficient in using her katana, allowing you to chain up combos, albeit a limited variety of them; dodge and parry attacks, and of course, the best part – the insane, “blood and gore”-filled finishers, but she can be pretty deadly with her guns too.

Gunplay here mostly cover-based, forcing you to really make use of the various covers, both full and partial, placed around the environment. From behind the covers, you’ll then pop in and out to try to score hits while avoid getting hit in return. Since ammo can be quite limited here, you may oftentimes find yourself out of ammo and will have to leap from behind your cover to sprint towards your enemies so you can take them out with your katana.

Your handgun – yes, you have one - works slightly differently, however. You can’t aim them like you do your normal rifles, and instead, they will automatically snap towards your nearest target in the direction you are facing. It doesn’t deal a lot of damage but it’s perfect when you need to interrupt an unblockable attack and not get hit in the process.

Unlike the katana and your handgun, you can customize the weapons you wield, both the primary and secondary weapons. Everything from the stock and sights to the magazine and barrel can be modified based on what parts you have. You can also change its skin if you want. You can even drop the default weapon you have and pick up new ones that are dropped from fallen enemies. You can get more ammo this way as well.

Although you won’t have access to it at first, there are actually plenty more tools in your belt that you can use to your advantage during fights, including a variety of grenades. To unlock it though, you’ll to have amassed enough points to spend in your skill tree, which is accessible via the menu. Besides picking up new abilities, you can also improve your stats and upgrade skills via the very same skill tree.

That being said, Wanted: Dead isn’t a game that’s designed for casual or midcore gamers The steep difficulty, even on normal, its lowest difficulty setting available, you may find it sometimes difficult to keep up, especially when boss fights are involved and if you’re using the keyboard and mouse to play. Swordfights can feel a bit overwhelming, especially if you aren’t exactly a pro at games like For Honor in the first place, and the limited ammo makes it unfeasible to just shoot your way out.

The cover itself also can make shootouts challenging because there are plenty of times when you just feel like you’re battling with the camera angles while popping out of cover more than you are fighting the enemies. Of course, your teammates in this game are pretty useless too. Not only are they poor shots, they also can’t properly defend themselves if the enemies engage them in close quarter combat.

However, interestingly, if you die a whole lot in the same scene, the game will then recommend you play on its hidden Easy mode. This is a great way to help the player progress through its linear storytelling without having them getting permanently stuck at that very scene and ditching the game entirely out of frustration. But of course, some players may take offense at such an offer, so there’s really no way to win over everyone.

On the other hand, many hardcore gamers of the genre claimed that the game is quite the breeze, funnily enough. These are likely avid fans of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, and hence, are able to easily ease into the gameplay here in Wanted: Dead. This game was developed by the very same team, after all!

In addition to the action-packed gameplay, Wanted: Dead is also filled with fun minigames, all of which you can play outside of the story-driven campaign once you have it unlocked. At the beginning, you’ll only have access to the shooting range minigame where you can test your shooting skills via the Time Attack Mode or the Score Mode, but as you progress, you’ll get to enjoy games like the crane game, the rhythm-based karaoke minigame, and a ramen minigame. There are also Training levels that will test your mettle in an area setting against numerous enemies without your teammates.

For collectors, Wanted: Dead hid plenty of collectibles from memos to handwritten notes that you can find and collect. These aren’t necessary for you to understand the story, but it sure feels good if you managed to collect them all.

Graphics/ Sound

Wanted: Dead has some impressive visual, featuring plenty of eye-candies here and there. Although they can sometimes glitch out and look weird, the finisher animations are amazing and works well with all the thrilling action in the gameplay. In terms of sound, the game comes with plenty of nice sound effects, and a pretty alright voice acting for each character. It’s also interesting to note that the game has a mix of different styles of cutscenes, which funnily enough, includes a 2D anime cutscene despite the game being a fully 3D-rendered game.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, Wanted: Dead is probably the epitome of “you can’t please everyone” within a gaming industry context. As the game was developed by the same team behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, it is held to a much higher standard right out of the gate. The high expectations of the hardcore fans of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive came crashing down with what they deem an easy, uninspired game. On the other hand, Wanted: Dead isn’t free of flaws or challenges that end up making its gameplay more frustrating than entertaining for a more casual or midcore gamer; someone who’s new to the team’s works.

So, if you’re a fan, you might want to temper your expectations quite a bit and you might find yourself a sleeper hit, but for newcomers, it’s possible to immediately unlock the Easy mode (check the discussions on Steam) without having to go through the hair-pulling anguish of dying repeatedly to the same boss just so you can enjoy the game while keeping your head of lustrous hair (sorry, bald folks!) intact.

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by Aethyna Feb 18, 2023

Together with your team, fight your way through throngs of enemies, be it mercs or gangsters, as you set off on a mission to uncover a major conspiracy surrounding Dauer, the megacorporation that developed synthetics and military hardware in this thrilling action-packed game, Wanted: Dead!