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"Judge Dredd"

Is anyone else interested in this? I've completed the PC demo and it was a good laugh, and it is much more of a console shooter than a PC one simply because of the pretty terrible mouse movement on it. Still is good looking and good fun, and has extensive modes - co-op, arcade (bit like PD/TS2s challenges, just in the city) and a multiplayer etc.

Could be good on Cube.

They have updated it and said that Vivendi made a mistake and both games will still be released in Europe.

According to Cube-europe the game has officially now been canned for Gamecube. However despite the article claiming the new Buffy game has also been canned for the format several people have claimed the GC version is already on the shelves.

I finally got on the multiplayer with a mate and we had a 14 player deathmatch because it let us have 12, yes 12, bots! It seems to be very much Quake but you can only have 2 weapons at a time (like Halo). I haven't played much but what I have played has been really good. There doesn't appear to be any auto-aim (except when using the Lawgiver's heat seeking rounds) and this adds to it's Quakeyness.

The design of the multiplayer levels I've played on so far has been good, there is one massive level which we played a 14 player deathmatch with each player having 10 lives. It was a long tactical game.

Well so far I've played the training level and the first two missions/levels. It's far too early to 'judge' the game but so far I'm very impressed, the arrest system is expanded along the lines I wanted after the stealthy arrest system in Die Hard: Vendetta. In Dredd the arrest system helps you unlock secrets by keeping your 'law meter' full. I got the top rating on the first mission which worried and I thought it was going to be easy, I got the lowest rating (rookie) on the next mission though so there's plenty to strive for an unlock.

Apart from the small amount of play (about 20-25 mins for EACH of the first two levels) I'm very happy with it.

Can't wait to try out the multiplayer. They should have had made more emphasis that the multi has bots though, the game's cover doesn't mention this at all which gave me the wrong impression that it didn't have any, Die Hard: Vendetta did the same forgetting to mention it had multiplayer bots.

Its a great laugh, and I love Dredd stuff so I'm getting it :)

Hmmm.

Yeah they are cool features, buuuut........


Its a bit genero and poor in places.

Hmm.

I've just got it.

I have to say that from a multiplayer perspective (and having only read the manual so far) it looks as though Ninty's should rejoice.

There's some nice stuff here by the looks of things, such as multiple types of ammo and a nice looking arrests system which builds towards your rating for the level which in turn unlocks secrets.

Anyway I'm off to actually play the damn thing now. :D

Played the demo and to be honest, I thought it sucked. So much for being in a city, environments are featureless, bland sections with hardly any thought gone into the design. Backgrounds look nice though.

It's action pretty much all the way, though I never figured out why rival gangs would operate in the same area. Once you take down one gang, you only need to take a few steps more to meet another, and it's shooting all the way.

The Lawgiver (or that big gun dredd uses) is a nice enough addition, complete with all different type of ammunition, but you don't need them, the default bullets are enough to take down anything the game can throw at you with little or no effort.

It was fun in some areas, crap in most. Some nice graphics which have been ripped off from Timesplitters, but really nothing to shout about, oh and hope you like advertising in game because according to Rebellion, Red Bull will be the only drink to survive a nuclear war. Crates of the stuff piled everywhere, I don't mind advertising now and again in games, but I don't like to be force fed it.

Anyway, I'd give this one a miss unless the developers pull something spectacular out of their ass before it's finished, which is unlikely.

Ive only seen a few shots but the blood looks great. =D

I thought it had been canned for the cube.

Perhaps not.