Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death Reviews

DEAD OR ALIVE LAWBREAKER SMOKING IN PUBLIC? LIFE SPRAYPAINTING PUBLIC PROPERTY? LIFE ASSAULTING A JUDGE? 12 MONTHS

The game runs well, memories of this game are solid, thank you Steam for hosting this game.

Played it first on ps 2 and it still holds up, great voice acting

Positives: - Attractive female characters. - Aggressively masculine. - Get to arrest liberals for the crime of liberalism in the first 15 minutes. Based. Negatives: - The jump button only works when it feels like it. Final thoughts: I can overlook a lot in a game this based, but having a jump button that doesn't work properly is kind of a deal breaker.

Review from GoG A simple B-tier shooter. Not even sure how quite to begin here. Well, first off, its a budget FPS from 20 years ago that was mainly designed for consoles. The PC port is fine, nothing wrong here, but there is a certain "clunkyness" that you notice when playing these types of games. So the best part of the game, from my perspective, was the soundtrack. Either super chill tunes and pretty pumped up tracks. Secondary of note would probably be the setting. I know Judge Dredd is pretty much forgotten by people nowadays, but its still a pretty interesting setting about a cop trying to keep order in a super over sized semi-dystopian city. But in the game you dont really get to feel the grittyness of the city as it is portrayed in other media. It feels like just some futuristic city. The game offers 3 main game modes - story, arcade, multiplayer. I only played through the campaign. Its rather short, beatable in about 4 hours, give or take. The main goal of missions is to achieve a higher score. You do that by fulfilling objectives in a mission and being a good cop. That means arresting perpetrators, saving citizens, avoiding extra casualties. And its less fun being a good cop than just shooting down enemies. You could just ignore the scoring and go around taking down enemies. It wont effect the story. I understand they wanted to incorporate being a cop into the gameplay, but I cant say it worked out. You have your main gun for fighting, which has several ammo types. Some of them I didnt bother using at all. And you can pick up a secondary, which is useful as you probably wont have enough ammo to deal with everyone with your main gun. Your health can also go down quickly if you receive too much melee or sustained fire. Levels can feel a bit too "coridor" if you know what I mean. The story is alright, but too compressed to be truly entertaining. While its alright as a budget game of its time, nowadays only people who are interested in Dredd or the atmosphere of early 2000s games should bother. For the current price, though, it has enough character to warrant a thumbs up. 6/10

This is a janky console-to-PC port, or maybe it wasn't fully QA tested. Who knows. Shooting doesn't feel smooth. Bullets are underpowered, but your punch is an instant kill. Movement is cumbersome, which makes evading fast enemies annoying. Moving in any direction but forward is excruciating. Jumping also is broken as you often get snagged on tiny bits of geometry, and will have to walk backwards to unsnag yourself like this is a shitty PS1 game with tank controls. Unique ammo types and shooting weapons out of enemies' hands are fantastic ideas, but this game is not worth a recommendation, even priced at 95 cents. On the plus side, the widescreen patch does work though. Get that mod if you do intend on playing this.

love the comics & boy the devs do too. It was a fun ride, highly recommend.

I remember playing this as a kid on the original xbox and never being able to get past the second mission, even with my dad helping. We both had fun, but it was rather frustrating. Saw it on sale for less than a pound, figured I'd give it a try. Yeah... turns out I didn't know how to aim for the head back then

I hate it. At first, it looks promising (it seems to be an old version of 'Ready or Not' mixed with 'Killing Floor'). But then it loses balance, removes the capture mechanics, and goes all in on Killing Floor-style gameplay. The result? The game gets old fast. Why? Because, unlike Killing Floor, most enemies in this game are bland, either walking toward you or jumping at you. The only good enemies are humans since the AI is kind of smart, they take cover or run for their weapon if disarmed. But, since they remove capture mechanics after a few maps (which also means no more capturable human enemies), there’s nothing to do except shoot, literally just shooting. It gets boring way too fast. Boss fights are a joke. None of them can be killed by normal shooting. Instead, you have to defeat them using specific conditions, which makes no sense. It’s ridiculous when normal mobs are more challenging than the bosses.

Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death is the pinnacle of a six out of ten ps2 game. It's trashy, it's janky, it's generic and it's actually a decent amount of fun. The basic, fairly barren levels and junky futuristic dystopian aesthetic coupled with the generic weapons, are reminiscent of Deus Ex: Invisible War. Yet through all of this, the dark doomed world and humor capture the world of Judge Dredd. Though the jump button sucks and you can't take screenshots during cutscenes, the game isn't very buggy (aside from some questionable pathfinding from companion npcs), the shooting is solid and the weapon selection contains a handful of fun guns like a sniper rifle/machine gun, a tommygun, a solid shotgun, a very fun grenade launcher and of course Dredd's classic gun with 5 different bullet types. Additionally the music was alright. The campaign is short and sweet, containing mechanics like enemies who surrender, perps to be arrested, and a legality meter that will send Judges after you if you go down to 0. Exploring the ridiculous maps like the Smokatorium and watching the at first boring plot that goes from 0-100 very quickly are fun. My main qualm is that the game leans too heavily into generic tropes like vampire enemies and zombies; there could have been a bit more variety. But for the short length it makes sense. Outside of the campaign there is a multiplayer gamemode and an arcade mode. I was only able to try the latter but I wasn't very impressed. This game is like junkfood, it's cheap, it ain't very good for ya, but most bites taste pretty good. Get it on sale if you like Judge Dredd or PS2 FPS games.