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Wanted: Weapons of Fate
- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- Price: $59.99
- Genre: Third-person shooter
Common Sense Media says
Shallow third-person shooter extends film Wanted.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is a bloody action shooter. Players use handguns and knives to shoot enemies or slit throats. The deaths involve lots of blood splattering on the screen. The plot is also littered with profane language.
What's it about?
WANTED: WEAPONS OF FATE is the third-person shooter based on the action film Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman. Picking up where the movie left off, Weapons of Fate follows Wesley Gibson, an assassin working for a secret society called "The Loom of Fate." Wesley sets out on a mission to find out more about his family, particularly the death of his mother. Players view the story through the eyes of both Wesley and, in some levels, his father.
The game plays a lot like Microsoft third-person shooter Gears of War, implementing a cover mechanic to allow players to hop between obstacles and fire at foes. Wanted introduces a cover chain feature, where players blindly fire to distract enemies, then quickly sneak to another area of the environment to catch enemies off-guard. Wesley and his father are only armed with pistols and a knife, but have special abilities to give them a significant edge. When players kill someone, their character earns adrenaline they can use to access these powers. Each of them can curve bullets or slow down time to quickly kill multiple enemies at once. Anytime an enemy gets too close, players can slit their throats or jab them in the gut with a knife.
Is it any good?
Like most video games based on a movie license, Wanted is full of flash and low on substance. Initially, playing as Wesley is entertaining. The controls feel comfortable, especially for those well-versed in Gears of War. Each of the abilities are fun to use as well. The first few kills notched with a curved bullet should make players feel like skilled marksmen.
Wanted falls short in the single-player experience because it is one-dimensional and shallow. Nothing Wanted accomplishes is original or clever. Players only have access to handguns for the majority of the game, with the exception of a couple of uninteresting moments involving a turret or sniper rifle. Players encounter the same handful of enemies repeatedly, each of which are easily dispatched thanks to the refillable adrenaline meter and constant use of the slow-motion attacks. Add to that a short story and the lack of multiplayer and you've got a shooter that's not above average.
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now you to can curve bullets
this game is fun but not overly fun but still fun. the game lets you curve bullets in an easily fun ability. the game can get gory only if you do melee attacks and by the way sometimes you don't stab enemies you break their necks. the cross levels somehow seem more entertaning than wesleys maybe because of the dialogue that wesely has which is constanly annoying
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Good at first
The only thing good about this game is curving bullets,and the airplane level. Beside that the game is the same thruout. It was a major dissapointment. There is a lot of blood and strong language
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so bad
this game is discusting and it made me puke because of language and blood, nasty.
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This game, in my opinion, is intensely inappropriate for children and I think that if you were to let your children play it they should AT LEAST know that this behavior that our main character Wesley Gibson is doing is Detestable to alot of people.
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Best game ever
Its a really good game but not for little kids
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WANTED:WEAPONS OF FATE
Bad controls and a bad story make this one of the worst games on the xbox 360
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idk about this video game
my mom bought this game for me because she knows i love shooting games...i try it out and the graffics are great it's just that the story is to short and u don't really know what your chasing after until the end but it sometimes doesn't even make sense even in GTA u don't know what your chasing after or who it is your trying to kill. the cheats are fine too. i returned it after 3 days
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not for kids.
based on the film from the movie stars with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman wanted Wanted: Weapons of Fate the video game is a third-person shooter disappointing game that lacks off of game play and the game is only fours long making this game not enjoyable this game is only good for renting and this game is not for kids this game is only for adults and parents you need to know that Wanted: Weapons of Fate has intense violence and a lot of constant strong language used throughout the game
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Ever wanted to slant bullets or jump a mile?Well,here's your chance.
Great fun there is some violence but not pushing the envelope some language and some sexual references.I have seen the movie and had to get the game when it came out too,and so got this.Its a lot of fun and awesome realistic looking graphics like making your character have awesome cool superhuman abilities and stuff like that.Five stars.
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i love the movie have no played the video game
i have seen the movie but not the video game.
parents i am pretty sure that it is more violence than the movie because xmen the video game is M.
xmen the video game is much more violence and blood and languages.
So i think wanted the video games is much more violence than the movie wanted.
i guess what wesley gibson is up on in the video game.
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| Platforms: | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Third-person shooter |
| Developer: | Warner Bros. Games |
| Release date: | March 24, 2009 |
| Price: | $59.99 |
| ESRB rating: | M for Intense violence, Blood and gore, Strong language |
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