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Dead to Rights: Retribution

Introducing an innovative hybrid combat system, Dead to Rights: Retribution puts the full combat potential of a highly trained, highly agitated law-enforcement officer into players' hands. Use your sidearm to…

69 1 April 2010

Dead to Rights: Retribution is a shooter developed by Volatile Games, released 1 April 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Dead to Rights: Retribution is

Dead to Rights: Retribution is a shooter game developed by Volatile Games and released in 2010. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Returning to Grant City, a boom town gone bust that is falling to the worst excesses of crime, greed and corruption; Dead to Rights: Retribution follows vice cop Jack Slate as he fights to expose shadowy figures that will stop at nothing to exert their deadly influence over the crumbling metropolis. Dead to Rights: Retribution will form an original story portraying key events that shape and define Jack Slate's character including how he and Shadow first come together as partners against those who would bring the once great city to its knees.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dead to Rights: Retribution holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Dead to Rights: Retribution launched on 1 April 2010, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033 and Just Cause 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2.

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When did Dead to Rights: Retribution come out?
Dead to Rights: Retribution was released on 1 April 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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