Death by Degrees
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco Bandai Games |
| Producer(s) | Youzou Sakagami |
| Composer(s) | Kazuhiro Nakamura |
| Series | Tekken |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 (HD) |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Display | 480i (SDTV) |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 52.2% |
| Metacritic | 51% |
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| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | 4/10 |
| Edge | 5/10 |
| EGM | 5.33/10 |
| Game Informer | 5.5/10 |
| GamePro | 2.5/5 |
| Game Revolution | D+ |
| GamesMaster | 43% |
| GameSpot | 5.6/10 |
| GameSpy | 3/5 |
| GamesTM | 2/10 |
| IGN | 5/10 |
| OPM (UK) | 1.5/5 |
| Play | 58% |
| PSM | 7/10 |
| PSM3 | 42% |
Death by Degrees is an action-adventure game by Namco. It is initially a spin-off from the Tekken series of fighting games. Originally announced with the title Nina, the game was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. It is the first Tekken game to be Rated M (Mature) by ESRB.
The game is fully controlled by the analog sticks. The left analog stick is touch-sensitive; through various degrees of holding, tapping or pressing along with other buttons allows the player character Nina Williams to walk, run or evade. The right analog stick is used for offensive moves.
The game's most remarkable feature is the ability to allow Nina to use her martial arts skills to break the bones of her enemies through use of carefully aimed attacks. These attacks do more damage to the enemy and show the player the damage being inflicted on the opponent's skeletal structure. Strangely, this does little to actually disable opponents, as they often continue to use limbs that have been literally shattered, as well as survive blows to the head that would cause the skull to practically explode, without even losing consciousness.
Once the game is completed, "Anna Mode" will be unlocked, offering the player the ability to play as Nina's younger sibling and rival, Anna Williams. Various outfits can be unlocked throughout the game, which include a bikini, cocktail dress, purple jumpsuit, black and silver stealth suit. Playing the game a second time causes LCD crates throughout the game to contain infinite supplies of certain weapons, such as infinite katana and infinite rail-gun. After completing the game twice, the wrestling costume as seen in the opening FMV is also unlocked. A third clear game file additionally unlocks "Tekken 2 Nina", which instead of an outfit is actually a different facial and bodily construction, exactly as she appears in the Tekken title, in low resolution.
Nina Williams, world-renowned assassin, has been hired by the CIA and MI6 to join a team which is attempting to infiltrate "Kometa," a notorious criminal organization. The team's strategy involves gaining access to the target through a fighting tournament being held on the "Amphitrite," a luxury cruise ship owned and operated by Kometa. A leaked video on the Internet showed a Kometa ship exploding within the Bermuda Triangle, and it is feared that they are working on some kind of superweapon in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Nina's official cover involves infiltration as a competitor in the tournament. However, Nina is also the team's "sweeper"; should her partners fail, she must finish the job. Nina enters the competition, but is quickly discovered and captured. She soon receives a communication informing her of the team's failure and the death of one of the agents named John Doe (killed by Kometa executive Edgar Grant), and that she must now conduct the operation herself.
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