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Armed and Dangerous

Take a band of gun-toting rebels -a robot, a madman, a mole and a criminal mastermind. Put them in a vividly stunning fantasy realm. Then give them an impossible mission - pulling off the biggest heist of all…

83 2 December 2003

Armed and Dangerous is a shooter developed by Planet Moon Studios, released 2 December 2003 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Armed and Dangerous is

Armed and Dangerous is a shooter game developed by Planet Moon Studios and released in 2003. It was published by Activision. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Amityville.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Armed and Dangerous is a 2003 shooter video game created by Planet Moon Studios and released by LucasArts. It is a third-person action-adventure shooter which parodies video games and other media such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, using humorous in-game dialogue and cutscenes. The game features known actors and voice actors such as Brian George as main hero Roman, Jeff Bennett, John Mariano and Pat Fraley as his sidekicks Jonesy, Rexus and Q (respectively) and Tony Jay as villain King Forge.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Armed and Dangerous holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 1GHz or AMD Athlon 1GHz, 256 RAM and 32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting (T&L) Compatibility. Install size is roughly 5GB.

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What it launched against

Armed and Dangerous launched on 2 December 2003, within three weeks of Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground and Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Armed and Dangerous — frequently asked questions

When did Armed and Dangerous come out?
Armed and Dangerous was released on 2 December 2003 for Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Armed and Dangerous?
At minimum, Armed and Dangerous needs Pentium III 1GHz or AMD Athlon 1GHz, 256 RAM, 32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting (T&L) Compatibility graphics, 4.5 GB of free hard drive space of storage.
How many GB is Armed and Dangerous?
The PC version needs about 4.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4.5 GB of free hard drive space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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