Dead to Rights: Reckoning is a third-person shooter

Third-person shooter

Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...

 video game, developed by and published by Namco

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 on June 28, 2005. It serves as a prequel to the Dead to Rights II

Dead To Rights II

Dead to Rights II is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Widescreen Games and first published by Namco on April 12, 2005. It is a prequel to Dead to Rights. It begins with the story of Jack Slate and Shadow before the events of Dead to Rights...

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Plot

The daughter of a high ranking Grant City official Senator is kidnapped and Jack Slate must rescue her.

Gameplay

The game is very similar to Dead to Rights II

Dead To Rights II

Dead to Rights II is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Widescreen Games and first published by Namco on April 12, 2005. It is a prequel to Dead to Rights. It begins with the story of Jack Slate and Shadow before the events of Dead to Rights...

and retains the series' signature usage of bullet time, disarming moves and the ability to use an attack dog. Similar to the prequel, this game no longer retains the original's minigames and heavily favours action instead.

Critical reception

Dead to Rights: Reckoning has been criticized for its overly repetitive gameplay, which involved running around clearing rooms punctuated with an occasional boss fight; poor camera and controls; recycling levels from Dead to Rights II

Dead To Rights II

Dead to Rights II is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Widescreen Games and first published by Namco on April 12, 2005. It is a prequel to Dead to Rights. It begins with the story of Jack Slate and Shadow before the events of Dead to Rights...

and a poorly conceived multiplayer function built around auto-aim. The game received a 5.7/10 from Gamespot

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 and a similar score of 54% from GameRankings.