Dead to Rights II is a shooter developed by Widescreen Games, released 12 April 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dead to Rights II is
Dead to Rights II is a shooter game developed by Widescreen Games and released in 2005. It was published by Namco. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A reputable judge Alfred McGuffin uncovers a citywide crime syndicate, and is kidnapped. The judge was a friend of Jack's father, so the cop is obligated to send a few hundred men to their graves in order to make things right. Before long, all hell breaks loose, so Jack and his K-9 cohort Shadow must take on a powerful mob in the fight of their lives to break the city's spiral of betrayal and corruption. In the end, the judge is murdered and although Jack gets the killer, goons of a high-ranking Russian crime lord named Blanchov get the judge's files. Jack's girlfriend Ruby is murdered by Blanchov and although Jack never retrieves the files (they were likely Hennesey's files from the first…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action.
How it was received
Dead to Rights II holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 2 hrs.
What it launched against
Dead to Rights II launched on 12 April 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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