Wanted: Dead is the kind of jankfest that would've popped off on PlayStation 3, but in 2023 I'm not so sold.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those people. I'm a huge Team Ninja lover and a regular Dead or Alive defender, so I was excited to dive into the Hong Kong Police Department's Zombie Squad. A group of former criminals on life sentences, you take on the role of Hannah Stone. Along with comrades Herzog, Doc and Cortez, Wanted: Dead's flimsy narrative is played out across a number of missions.
Most guns also felt pretty crap to use aside from Stone's own rifle and the shotgun, which seem to be two of the only guns capable of actually hitting enemies. Grenade launchers and Stone's supply of hand grenades inflicted little damage if at all, and I eventually gave up on using them as they were so useless.
I'm not the most action-inclined gamer out there, and found the end-of-mission bosses particularly frustrating. The final mission gave me so much grief, unaided by some very sporadic checkpoint placement that turned the game into a gauntlet with some heavy health resource management. One particular checkpoint in the final mission killed me off over 10 times, leaving me frustrated in my lack of skill that was at odds with my desire to progress and finish the goddamn game.
I did, however, encounter some pesky bugs that added to the roughness of the game. Music would stop dead in the middle of encounters, and menus would fail to disappear while gameplay continued in the background. I also encountered a couple of crashes that would occur at random. I'm not sure if it was a bug or poor audio mixing, but one level had the enemies' singular voice screaming above the music and every other sound effect which was incredibly distracting.
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