The game is caught ultimately between playful pastiche and a desire to deliver on a traditional action formula, and by the halfway point the latter takes over completely, with the characters, the knock-off cyberpunk story, and all the quirky extras shoved aside to focus on the fighting. If Wanted: Dead serves up some crispy satire about women surviving in a man's world, though, it's still raw in the centre, making no real attempt to follow through on these roughly sketched themes. Even the game's marketing material helps to recontextualise dated tropes, with this promo video (opens in new tab) adding dimensions to the waitress character who's subject to sexual objectification in the diner scene. Placing Stone at the head of a team of unreconstructed musclemen reframes their schoolboy banter as something to endure rather than enjoy – a point underlined in a scene where Stone and Vivienne get to chat with none of the lads around, and for once simply talk about life outside work. At times, Wanted: Dead could be an astute parody of revered '80s action films. Most fascinating in these sections, however, is how they bounce like a rugby ball between dumb cliché and sharp self-awareness. "I don't know, how does it feel going down on your sister?" comes the reply. "How does it feel to be a grumpy alcoholic?" one asks another out of the blue. But perhaps because it's so off it remains captivating, from these beginnings to exchanges that erupt apropos of nothing during missions. Their macho chit-chat has all the flow of a bad cough, peppered with awkward pauses, unplaceable accents and non sequiturs. Next we fast forward to a diner where Stone is relaxing with her fellow zombies – a trio of action men whose names I've already forgotten. But the production values are already struggling to convince, with some strangely stilted voice overs leading the way. She's a cool customer, with her facial scars, cigarette habit, and casual demeanour as she accepts a deal to skip jail in return for joining an elite police 'Zombie Unit'. First, you meet cybernetic super soldier protagonist Hannah Stone, who's serving a life sentence in prison for something or other. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Wanted: Dead secretes a trashy charm from its opening cutscenes. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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