Armed And Dangerous



Armed and Dangerous is a third-person action-adventure shooter game created by Planet Moon Studios and released  in December 2, 2003 by LucasArts on Microsoft Windows and Xbox.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Lots of cool and wacky weapons to use such as the Land Shark Gun, a device where the world reverses gravity resulting in enemies to go into the sky after the gravity goes back to normal it results in the enemies to fall to their death, and a miniature black hole.
 * 2) Great voice acting, notably from Brian George as Roman and Patrick Howard Fraley as Q.
 * 3) The cutscenes had funny moments in them, despite the animation not aging very well.
 * 4) Amazing soundtrack, which is mostly done with bagpipes which fits the fantasy element of the game.
 * 5) The in-game environments look pretty good for 2003, despite it not aging well.
 * 6) Amazing boxart for the game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned in WIR points 3 and 5, the graphics have not aged very well for 2003 standards since the graphics look like it came from a game from the Fifth Generation, as it has some graphical issues and very poor distance fog. And the cutscenes are poorly animated, and has multiple animation errors, such as stuff clipping right through the character's bodies, poor lip-syncing, and low quality models.
 * 2) * Even Planet Moon Studio's first game Giants: Citizen Kabuto had better cutscenes than this, and that game came out in late 2000.
 * 3) Lack of checkpoints, unless you go to a pub to get weapons.
 * 4) Some minor plotholes.
 * 5) * Robots like Q cannot drink tea or water, since liquid will actually result in the robot to malfunction or break the circuits inside of it.
 * 6) The PC Version's cutscenes are in a letterbox with subtitles, instead of the cutscenes being in fullscreen like in the Xbox Version.
 * 7) According to a Amazon Reviewer, some copies of the game came with malware

Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

Trivia

 * 1) The Xbox Version of the game later went into the Xbox Gold in September 2020.