Dead Man's Hand (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dead Man's Hand

The game is somewhat unusual in that between levels, the player plays poker for extra health and ammunition. The character is armed with 4 default weapons; a knife, a pistol, a rifle and a shotgun. Other…

60 2 March 2004

What Dead Man's Hand is

Dead Man's Hand is a shooter game developed by Human Head Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is somewhat unusual in that between levels, the player plays poker for extra health and ammunition. The character is armed with 4 default weapons; a knife, a pistol, a rifle and a shotgun. Other weapons that can be found are TNT and Whisky bombs. The player can shoot objects such as whisky bottles, cans and enemies to score legend points, thus filling up the "trick shot" meter that lets the character use the secondary mode of firing which varies depending on the current weapon. The combat in the game also makes use of the game's physics engine, with the player being able to trigger physics based traps such as shooting a rock and causing it to fall onto an enemy below - kills…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

How it was received

Dead Man's Hand holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dead Man's Hand launched on 2 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Katamari Damacy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004, Katamari Damacy.

Official trailer