10 Video Games Better Than The Sum Of Their Parts
3. Wanted: Dead
To play Wanted: Dead is to touch the face of a god who has gone mad.
You will not have experienced it before.
You likely won't ever again.
But you will remember it.
Oh yes, you will remember it.
In weeks, months, years to come you will remember it as a fever dream - a paradoxically short six hour game, that seems to stretch into infinity with endless, endless corridors of identikit soldiers and ninjas waiting to be massacred by you and your crew. And oh, that crew! From player character Agent Stone, who sounds like a concussed Tommy Wiseau with exactly as much acting ability, to... actually, you won't remember anyone else's names.
But by God you will remember their actions. Putting in a bizarrely lengthy breakfast order; telling the world's most nonsensical joke in a lift; a tone-deaf rendition of 99 Luftballoons; consuming endless bowls of ramen in an overly elaborate, one-off mini-game; conversing with seemingly important NPCs who drop out of the plot as soon as they're introduced...
Wanted: Dead is terrible. Wanted: Dead is incredible. Wanted: Dead cannot be recommended to anyone, and should be played by everyone.
You will love it. You will hate it. You will never, ever forget it.