New Review Poster: Dead Man's Hand

[Daniel Weissenberger]

I suffer all the indignities that Dead Man's Hand could heap upon me and am left thinking that:

"The first person shooter (FPS) is by far the most maligned genre in all of videogaming (although, to be fair, this is just because there isn't a large "porno" genre… yet). Striving as it does to simulate for people the experience of shooting other people in the face (or groin, depending on the gamer's tastes), the FPS has been accused of everything from desensitizing the youth of America to training a generation to be heartless killing machines. As games get more graphically impressive, and we creep up on the day that some company takes the time to model all of the individual bone fragments created when a human head is pulverized by a shotgun fired at point blank range, Dead Man's Hand is something of an interesting iconoclast-a first person shooter that has completely divorced its gameplay from the reality of taking a human life."

The rest of the review can be accessed by clicking here: http://www.gamecritics.com/review/deadman/main.php if you're so inclined.

[LordFarid]

Ah finally a PC first person shooter review, we get this game? Why didn't you buy and review call of duty or far cry? No one has ever heard of this game. No one will ever buy this game. Except you of course.

[Daniel Weissenberger]

Actually I did review Far Cry a few weeks back. And expect to see Call of Duty mentioned prominently in an upcoming article.

[Tim Spaeth]

One question about DMH; I see playing cards in the lower left hand corner of many screenshots. Is there some kind of card playing mechanic in this game, or are the cards just an icon representing some random power meter?

[Daniel Weissenberger]

No, the playing cards are just the health meter - there is a little card playing minigame in between levels, in which being good at video poker can earn you extra bullets. It's just as badly implemented as the rest of the game.