• What: Dead to Rights: Retribution
• Current Price: £11.99
• Where: Play
• Platform & Price Comparison: XBox 360

Retribution is a "reimagining" of 2002's Dead to Rights which plants you in the shoes of vice cop Jack Slate, who is on a mission to rid the rather drab Grant City of its shackles of corruption and crime. The presentation is pretty poor; the graphics are far from pretty and while the fun combat is fun enough to execute, it certainly doesn't look very interesting or impressive. Beyond the addition of your dog to the combat mix, Dead to Rights really doesn't bring anything new or special to the gaming table and while Slate's incredibly cheesy dialogue is entertaining at first, it soon begins to grate, so you may find yourself getting bored or impatient with the game before the end. Thanks to skink at Hotukdeals!

Few things get such an immediate negative reaction from me as the word "reimagining". Thankfully in this case the term is not twinned with "Tim Burton" but I was still unsurprised to find out that this new version of 2002's Dead to Rights is a thoroughly average affair. Nonetheless, what was surprising was the discovery that Play are currently selling it for £17.99, just three weeks after its release! This offers a tidy saving of £7.50, compared to the next best price for either console, available from Tesco Entertainment.

• Click here to buy Dead to Rights: Retribution for £17.99 from Play (XBox 360 version)
• Click here to buy Dead to Rights: Retribution for £17.99 from Play (PS3 version)

Grant City used to be a boom town but now it has fallen into ruin, sagging under the weight of an excess of corruption and crime. Enter vice cop Jack Slate, a man on a mission to free the city from the shackles of greed and indecency and the twisted men that control it.

Presentation-wise, it's all a bit lack-lustre; Grant City is a pretty drab place with very little to catch the eye and while combat is fun it just doesn't look all that cool or impressive. The sound is similarly mediocre but it's almost worth the purchase for Jack's incredible cheesy dialogue which falls firmly into so-bad-it's-very-entertaining territory. There's a decent selection of moves available but the controls are not fiddly or confusing and the man/dog dynamic helps keep combat interesting but mostly the gameplay doesn't really offer anything special to elevate this beyond any other third person action game out there.

At this price it may be worth a try if you're totally starved for anything to do (or just fancy cynically adding to your gamerscore before trading in without a big loss) but sadly Dead to Rights: Retribution really does not offer anything much to get excited about.

Thanks to samhain81 at Hotukdeals!

April 2010 Game Releases

We're hurtling towards the end of April, and here comes another new releases post. It seems that everyone's just waited until the last week of the month to release their titles.  Dead To Rights: Retribution comes out along with Square's action-RPG Nier this week before an exciting end-of-month avalanche on the 30th.

How to use: Click on the title of the video game if you would like to see the cross platform possibilities. Click on the game cover of the platform of your choice to see the price comparison for that particular game, showing you the cheapest prices from UK online retailers.

NB. Game developers are notoriously flighty so be aware some of these dates may well change.

22nd - 28th April 2010:

Video Game	PC	PSP	PS3	X360	Wii	DS
Dead To Rights: Retribution 23rd April 2010
NIER 23rd April 2010