When did Death by Degrees come out?

Death by Degrees was released on 27 January 2005 for PlayStation 2.

Death by Degrees (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Death by Degrees

As a covert operative of the CIA, Nina Williams enters an underground fighting tournament to crack Kometa, a shadowy underworld organization. Functioning as the "sweeper" of her cell, Nina finds herself…

46 27 January 2005

What Death by Degrees is

Death by Degrees is an adventure game developed by Namco and released in 2005. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

As a covert operative of the CIA, Nina Williams enters an underground fighting tournament to crack Kometa, a shadowy underworld organization. Functioning as the "sweeper" of her cell, Nina finds herself tracking a stolen high-tech weapon through a variety of locales to reveal a conspiracy on a global scale. Nina must now face a multitude of deadly enemies, as well as her own past, in order to save the world. -Control Nina with an intuitive 360 degree combat system -Wield a variety of weapons including handguns, sniper rifles, swords and tonfas -Burst organs and shatter bones with Nina's Critical Strike -Deliver Nina's signature moves outside of the fighting ring

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tekken series

Death by Degrees is the 16th of 84 entries we hold in the Tekken series. The next entry was Tekken 5 in 2005. Its critic score of 46 is 31 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Tekken 2 at 90.

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How it was received

Death by Degrees holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Death by Degrees launched on 27 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and Star Wars: Republic Commando. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Star Wars: Republic Commando.

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