Armed and Dangerous | 
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| From: LucasArts Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $2.98
You Save: $27.01 (90%)
New (26) Used (9) from $2.40
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 7166
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: LUCD2
UPC: 023272403188
EAN: 0023272403188
ASIN: B0000A2Q7Q
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New - Sealed Retail Boxed
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| Features:
| • | Join 2 partners in crime on a mission set in a vividly stunning fantasy realm | | • | Battle your way through dastardly enemies, war machines, and psychopathic robots | | • | Fight your way through 21 action-packed missions | | • | Explore 5 diverse environments | | • | Take down wicked enemies with over 17 outlandish weapons |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
There is no kill like overkill! With an arsenal of outrageous weapons, they are destined for victory in 12,000 bullets or less. If they can make it through an army of psychotic robots and wall-smashing Goliaths, they just might save the world...if they don't burn it down first.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 What a Great Game! July 13, 2005
AFUNEGUY (HOLLYWOOD, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a perfect example of great and funny entertainment where you have wide latitude to do anything you want to achieve the goal. In addition the game is a bargain and so far superior to the overpriced $50.00 crap hyped up in the video mags. Treat yourself and buy this title.
 Get the XBox version instead March 18, 2005
Craig B. (Kansas City, MO USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember playing the demo for this game on the XBox. It seemed like it would be a fine game. So, now I find this game for the PC for super cheap and buy it. The moment I start playing it I notice a few problems. The cutscenes, while they have good graphics are in small windows, instead of full screen. When playing you seem to play in "letterbox", meaning there is a large black area above and below. I have a pretty new computer. 3gig chip, 1meg duel channel ram, RAID drive and the like. But the graphics during game play itself seems rather pixelated. Looking at an enemey that is say 100 feet away looks really blocky. Everything about it just screams that this was a bad port to the PC. It may be pretty cheap right now, but do yourself a favor and get the XBox version instead if you really want to play it. It may be out for PS2 and Gamecube also, not sure on that one.
Gem of a game December 2, 2004
David Astle (GameDev.net)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It seems like this game was fairly overlooked when it came out, but now that it can be had pretty cheaply, I'd highly recommend picking it up.
As others have said, the best thing Armed and Dangerous has going for it is that it's funny - laugh-out-loud funny at times. The character design and voice acting are superb, making the cutscenes (which appear between every level) highly entertaining.
The actual gameplay is fairly standard third-person shooter fare, injected with a healthy dose of humor ("Is that a spleen?"). The weapon selection is decent, but although many of them are unique and amusing (e.g. the Land Shark Gun), most of the time you'll only be using two of them, the machine gun and rocket launcher, because they're so darned effective. The jet pack that shows up in missions midway through the game is a great addition as well.
The levels are well designed, with quite a bit of variety both in the setting and mission style. In addition to the standard levels, there are about a half-dozen missions that place you behind a machine gun/mortar turret, singlehandedly holding off invading armies. As you play through the levels, you can find tokens which unlock features of the game, including bonus levels, cheat codes, and the ability to replay missions and cutscenes. The number and length of the levels is sufficient that you'll be satisfied when you reach the end.
The game does have a few flaws (e.g. some pretty bad rendering artifacts during cutscenes), but I had such a good time playing it that they were easy to overlook. Check it out if you want something a little different that will keep you laughing for hours.
 Would have been great if it had more than humor March 9, 2004
bayou_hannibal (West Virginia, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The biggest thing that Armed and Dangerous has going for it is its wacky sense of humor. That and its story. Everything else is kind of average.You play as Roman, the leader of a group of bandits called "The Lionhearts", out to dethrone an evil tyrant king. The game alternates between missions and funny but ugly cutscenes that tell the game's story. Unfortunately, the missions are hardly integrated into the story. It's like the missions were created in a vacuum and then just thrown in after the storyline was written. For instance, you will play a mission where you have to save a bunch of villagers from the evil king out in the middle of nowhere, even though the previous cutscene mentioned nothing like this. Towards the end of the game when you are saving a group of villagers for the 10th time, it starts to get repetitive. Repetitiveness ends up being the game's biggest problem. Half of the areas all look the same. There is a low variety of enemies and a very low variety of mission objectives. The missions are all "save the villagers" or "Blow up 5 buildings". There's also the occasional turret shooter mission. The variety of weapons that you get is pretty low, and so are the variety of enemies that you fight. If the developers had put as much effort into designing the missions as they did into the humor, then this would have been one of the best games of the past few years. The game is the funniest since Anachronox. The humor is integrated into every aspect of the game. Even the manual is funny to read. The sound bites during firefights can make you chuckle. The enemies have this amusing "throw your arms above the air and run around and scream" routine that they go through when you stick a grenade to them, or when you use your topsy-turvy bomb to flip the world upside-down. The topsy-turvy bomb is one of the examples of the kooky weapons in the game. Armed and Dangerous feels like a 10-hour long episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". So in the end, it's the humor that makes the game worth playing, but not a lot besides it. I'll give the game a good rating, but if the developers had put as much effort into designing some good shooter levels as they did into the game's funny parts, then it could have been Game of the Year.
Super fun shooter game. January 19, 2004
Darth Tomi (Madison, WI United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game had me hooked as soon as I saw it. It is not your standard shoot the terrorists Nazi bad guy let's be realistic as possible FPS. This has lots of fun stuff thrown in, like the topsy-turvey bomb. FUN STUFF!
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