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Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death (Playstation 2)

It is the third decade of the 22nd century. Unemployment is endemic, boredom is universal and only the Judges can prevent total anarchy Empowered to dispense instant justice, they are judge, jury and executioner all in one. The most feared and respected of all the Judges is Dredd he is the Law! In the darkest depths of Mega-City One a group calling themselves the Death Cult are devising a fiendish plan to free the evil Dark Judges from their holding chamber in a Justice Department penitentiary. Meanwhile the Judges of PSI Division have foreseen that the Big Meg will be blighted by a terrible plague. Soon enough, as predicted, there are outbreaks of vampirism across the city. Is this the return of some ancient, forgotten evil? [Vivendi Universal]

Vivendi Universal / Sierra
First-Person Shooter, Action
Players: 4
M (Mature)
Developer: Rebellion
Released February 24, 2005

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

52 / 100

Critic Reviews

80	My Gamer Other genre entries could learn a thing or two from this game for multi-functional weapons and minimized load times.
79	TotalGames.net More than any other game around, Dredd vs Death is destined to be a real fan favourite. Sure, we love the Lawgiver, in places the visual style works well, but generally this is a run-of-the-mill FPS dogged by an adherence to the laws of Dredd’s world. This is little more than a dependable shooter.
69	BonusStage Arrests are fun for about two levels, and then you notice the same few sayings keep repeating when you slap the cuffs on perps.
60	Yahoo! Games There's a very limited, repetitive number of enemy types (whose quickly depleted voiceovers get annoying), and the core combat is solid, but uninspired (circle-strafe, reload, repeat).
56	GameSpot It's a short, simplistic shooter that's not worth even its budget price.
50	IGN For those starved action gamers in need of an immediately accessible fix, there is still some strange sense of joy to be found in pointlessly gunning down the minions of evil in colorful environments.
50	Edge Magazine Your main objective is the bane of the modern FPS: follow a little blue arrow while shooting things, with the odd escort or protect responsibility thrown in to make you turn around occasionally. It's average justice dished out to the licence, but nothing more. [Christmas 2003, p.121]
50	Gamer.tv Rebellion has taken a sci-fi world tailor-made for an FPS game and created a title that feels like it could have been made six years ago.
50	PSM Magazine Okay in the short term, but there are far too many superior FPS out there. [May 2004, p.38]
40	G4 TV A depressingly face-value take on a dystopian future that works neither as a game or a parody, except of itself. There's some humor in each arrest procedure, but it wears thin quickly.
40	Maxim Online But for the crimes of middling graphics and dull-as-dirt game play, we sentence Dredd vs. Death to eternal burial in the discount bin at Costco. Court adjourned.
40	Cheat Code Central I hereby decree Dredd vs. Death to be an inferior product. My ruling is that the game should be executed.
40	Official U.S. Playstation Magazine It's mercifully short but painfully boring. [May 2004, p.97]

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