Reservoir Dogs review

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If only the gameplay stayed as interesting as the presentation, then we'd have a killer movie adaptation on our hands.

Whether you're driving or shooting, Reservoir Dogs feels workmanlike; not bad, necessarily, but you've already done this a million times. It doesn't help that the levels are repetitive and generic, and that some of them are recycled for different missions.

There are a couple of interesting twists, though, the most notable of which gives players the option to play like a "Psychopath" (ignore cover and run around shooting everyone) or a "Professional" (take hostages, use them as leverage to take other hostages and do as little harm as possible).

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GenreAction
DescriptionA mostly mediocre shoot 'em-up with some interesting twists and a killer presentation.
Platform"PC","Xbox","PS2"
US censor rating"Mature","Mature","Mature"
UK censor rating"","",""
Release date1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK)
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Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.