Dead to Rights is an adventure developed by Namco, released 3 June 2002 on Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Dead to Rights is
Dead to Rights is an adventure game developed by Namco and released in 2002. It is available on Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Meet Jack Slate, a cop framed for murder and facing execution. Slate escapes from Iron Point Maximum-Security Penitentiary to bring down the criminals that framed. In Dead to Rights, you play the role of Slate, as he fights through the hard streets and corrupt enemies of Grant City. There are plenty of ways go about bringing the conspirators to justice--Jack can perform disarm moves, shoot different weapons, pick locks, fight hand-to-hand, and play minigames such as arm wrestling, bench press, and dancing. In this gritty, crime-noir inspired epic, you're always on the run.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dead to Rights holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dead to Rights launched on 3 June 2002, within three weeks of Medal of Honor: Frontline, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Neverwinter Nights and Aggressive Inline. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Medal of Honor: Frontline, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Neverwinter Nights, Aggressive Inline.
Official trailer
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