The story takes place in Grant City, USA, a once bustling gold-mining town turned corrupt.
Bringing years of video game production experience and talent to the table, Andre Emerson was hired in 1999 by Namco to lead the Dead of Rights production team. Emerson’s previous experience with action games at companies such as 3DO, MGM, Activision made him the ideal producer for the game. Basically the idea is to bring your typical action movie to your home console, fully controllable. Expect 10-20 hours of solid gameplay.
Control in Dead of Rights is almost perfected. Although the game was only around 60% complete when I played it this afternoon there were few noticeable bugs. The camera definitely needs some work, as well as a little bit of fine-tuning with the graphics. The 3 playable levels were pretty amazing. Firstly was the training level taking place in a construction zone, this level covered the basic moves and taught the gamer how to do things such as use a human shield (we will get to that later) and control your dog for certain situations. Next was the cemetery which was obviously designed to show off how to use all things learned in the training level in one big situation, very cool.
But downright the coolest level playable today was the “Club” stage. Jack entered a local strip club that was known to have information on recent murders. Because there are too many guards Jack must recruit a stripper to keep them “busy”. What follows next was very fun and innovative, think Dance Dance Revolution meets Playboy’s version of Britney’s Dance Beat. You control the stripper and perform badass dance moves as long as you press the buttons in sync with the scrolling letters on the screen. Very fun!
