Overview
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- Release Date
Xbox Series X|S
14th Feb 2023
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Reviews
Review Wanted: Dead - A Highly Disappointing Hybrid Slasher/Shooter
It sounded good on paper...
"A new hybrid shooter/slasher from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive!" Now, just wait a minute. We absolutely adore Ninja Gaiden, it's one of the all-time great hack and slashers. And Dead or Alive? Well...we mean, somebody probably likes that too, but let's not confuse the issue, the point is that Wanted: Dead...
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Wanted: Dead News
News Wanted: Dead Publisher Talks Plans For 'Reworks' And 'Additions' On Xbox
"This journey is far from being over"
Wanted: Dead didn't get off to the best of starts earlier this month, acquiring a Metacritic score of 59 for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, but the team behind the game seems committed to making improvements across all platforms. In a message posted on social media over the weekend, it was explained that the...
Roundup 'Wanted: Dead' Is Off To A Rough Start With The Critics
It's not impressing folks in its current state
Old school action game Wanted: Dead is now out in the wild, and to be frank, it's sounding like some critics wish that it never managed to escape from developer captivity. This Ninja Gaiden-like is intentionally a bit of a throwback, so it's worth keeping that in mind here, but yeah, early reviews and...
News Old School Action Game 'Wanted: Dead' Gets Lengthy Launch Trailer Ahead Of Xbox Release
Shootin' n' slashin'
Wanted: Dead — from some of the developers behind classics like Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive — hits Xbox tomorrow, and the team has now dropped a chunky launch trailer just before release. The new trailer provides exactly what we expected to see from it to be honest, going off of all the pre-release media shown so fa
News 'Wanted: Dead' Is An Upcoming Slasher From The Minds Behind Ninja Gaiden, And You Can Tell
Wanted: Dead or [not] Alive
Earlier this month we introduced you all to Wanted: Dead, as the team at Soleil unveiled the game's Xbox release date of February 14th, 2023. Well, ahead of that nearby launch, IGN has gone hands on with the title in what the outlet is calling its "final preview", before the game hits digital storefronts next month. The...
News Wanted: Dead, From 'The Makers Of Ninja Gaiden', Launches On This Xbox This February
Here's a closer look at combat
Although we didn't include it in our initial roundup of 50 games to look forward to on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in 2023, we're definitely still keeping a very close eye on Wanted: Dead. The game releases in just over a month on February 14th, and based on what we've seen so far, it looks like a fun time. The...
About The Game
Wanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy. Play as Lt. Hannah Stone, a hardboiled Hong Kong cop, and plow through mercenaries, gang members and private military contractors in a spectacular cyberpunk adventure.
Key features:
- Hack-n-slash melee combat: Use a wide variety of deadly moves and dozens of unique finishers to slice and dice
- Third-person shooter: Battle indoors and outdoors using a curated selection of projectile weapons - assault rifles, SMGs, LMGs and grenade launchers
- Brutal finishers: over 50 unique finishing moves
- Cyberpunk: a crazy mix of advanced weaponry and lo-tech 90s retro futurism
- Gripping storyline: The Zombie unit uncovers a major corporate conspiracy in a dystopian version of Hong Kong
- Truly hardcore experience: the fights are not going to be easy, steel your resolve and use everything around you as you battle through hordes of mercenaries, synthetics and private security forces.
- Beat 'em up the old school way: Take down enemies to proceed further, revive the nostalgia in a modern twist on the established genre
- A love letter to the sixth generation of consoles.
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