Dead to Rights
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco Electronic Arts (EU) |
| Distributor(s) | Zoo Digital Publishing (EU) |
| Composer(s) |
Kevin Manthei Kevin Riepl |
| Series | Dead to Rights |
| Platform(s) | Xbox PlayStation 2 GameCube Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Action, third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Publication | Score | |||
| GC | PC | PS2 | Xbox | |
| Edge | N/A | N/A | N/A | (UK) 7 / 10 (US) 6 / 10 |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | 7 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
| Eurogamer | 6 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6 / 10 |
| Game Informer | 8.75 / 10 | N/A | 9.25 / 10 | 9.25 / 10 |
| GamePro |   |
N/A |  |
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| Game Revolution | N/A | N/A | C+ | C+ |
| GameSpot | 7.6 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
| GameSpy | N/A | |
N/A | 82% |
| GameZone | N/A | 7.9 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 |
| IGN | 8.1 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 | 8.5 / 10 |
| Nintendo Power | 4 / 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8.5 / 10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | 71% | N/A | N/A |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Entertainment Weekly | N/A | N/A | N/A | B− |
| Aggregate score | ||||
| Metacritic | 77 / 100 | 67 / 100 | 73 / 100 | 73 / 100 |
Dead to Rights is a third-person action video game produced by Namco. It was released in 2002 as a timed exclusive for the Xbox, and releases for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube followed thereafter. A year after its console debut, the game was released for Microsoft Windows. It was followed by Dead to Rights II in 2004/2005 and Dead to Rights: Retribution on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.
Dead to Rights makes use of bullet time, a popular gameplay mechanic of the time. The game advertises itself as drawing inspiration from Hong Kong action cinema, i.e. gun fu. The player is sometimes accompanied by Shadow, a canine partner who can attack enemies on command, and who will automatically kill whatever enemy he's aimed at and then bring the player whatever the enemy was carrying (to keep the dog from being too powerful, his attack can only be used when a meter for it fills up). In some puzzle sections, the player actually takes direct control of Shadow to reach areas that the human character cannot.
Jack Slate is a police officer partnered with his K-9 unit, Shadow. The two patrol Grant City, a metropolis seemingly populated with more criminals than honest citizens. One night while on a routine patrol, Jack responds to a call at a construction zone, only to find his own father murdered. In pursuit of his father's killer, Jack is led through a labyrinth of crime and corruption. He is eventually framed for another murder by the corrupt police chief Richard "Dick" Hennesey, in a bid to stop Jack before he undermines the status quo. However, after seven months in prison, Jack escapes from imprisonment by putting battery acid on the electric chair wires and hunts down Hennesey, clearing away the city's crime lords in the process. He first gets clothes at the apartment he was framed at and goes to Chinatown for information. There he battles Fat Chow and his goons and interrogates Marvin Silt, a goon who tried to run him down outside the prison before a woman named Eve Adams murders Silt. Eve is able to identify the assassin who was hired to frame Jack and the two have to battle Fat Chow and his goons again, with Jack killing Fat Chow before they are able to escape. Afterward Jack visits his father's grave and meets Hildy, his father's former assistant there and he learns from her that his father was investigating the corrupt mayor and police force for mayoral candidate Gloria Exner before his murder. Jack comes under attack by unknown attackers in clown masks, but eventually escapes the cemetery and links up with Eve again to foil an assassination attempt on Exner at a public debate. The two foil the attempt, but Eve is murdered by Patch, the assassin who framed Jack. Jack chases down Patch and causes his limo to crash, but the crash kills Patch, preventing interrogation, although Jack takes his pager.
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