The law always wins
I have always been curious about Judge Dredd for many years and was scrolling through my steam games and decided to boot this game up. For context, I didn’t watch any movies YET so I was just playing the game out of curiosity to see if it was any good. Sadly this game was not good AT all to the point I thought maybe watching the movie would help the experience. Booting up the original 95 film I was excited to finally dive face first into this world and……. It was one of the worst movies I have seen. After pondering to myself I got back to the game and finally finished and still had the same feeling at the end, it is such a boring game and bland game.
Why was it so bad?
To put it simply the gunplay was VERY boring and had no impact as you shot enemies you never really felt like you were doing any damage. Furthermore, the levels give you objectives and side objectives to do each level but you literally don’t have any reason to worry about anything past the main objective so you will skip it. On the subject of skipping unless you are prompted to kill or arrest the enemies you can literally run past everything and get to the goal which made certain parts funny. For being a man of “justice” its side objectives really have no reason to be accomplished so 99% of the time you will skip them unless you accidentally complete a side goal. Hell if you don’t skip anything sometimes the enemies will just skip you as the AI was terrible in this game having allies float mid air, enemies run into walls and NPCs you are supposed to save get stuck in places. Furthermore, the level layouts were very boring until you get to the boss fights , having you do boring objectives never trying to expand on stuff for you to do. To top it off the enemy variety is boring as you only fight about 3 types of enemies not including bosses and like I said above fighting each of these bland types of enemies got very boring very fast.. Combining all these things together it really made for a boring and bland experience that will soon be very forgettable to me. It's a shame because I honestly like the vibe and idea of Judge Dredd. I just don’t think they pulled it off with this game and that makes me wish we got another game. There is potential with this IP but it seems they just don’t care to try anything with it and I am not sure on the reason why so I won’t say much more on that.
Did I enjoy anything?
Honestly yes there were certain aspects about the game I did enjoy. To explain , I actually really liked the environments and graphics. I think they still look nice to this day and it was fun to just look around each level. While being cheesy I can’t help but to love the dialogue in this game, it is 100% cheesy mcheese and I was here for it. Furthermore, while the enemy pool was extremely dull I actually liked the bosses for the most part and thought a few levels had some great ideas in them. To elaborate, there was a stage where you had to fight against a fire demon who was burning up a smoking lounge and the level had you activate sprinklers to trap it and win. I really thought it was a cool idea even though the level was very short.
In the end
It was an interesting game to dive into as I never really heard anything about it and honestly if you are a die hard Dredd fan maybe give it a shot. It's cheap and it's very short with a runtime of about 3 hours so you can knock it out in one night if you really don’t value your time. A shame but it is what is, this game is a weird one.
Small update: watched the 2012 movie and it was awesome !
I have always been curious about Judge Dredd for many years and was scrolling through my steam games and decided to boot this game up. For context, I didn’t watch any movies YET so I was just playing the game out of curiosity to see if it was any good. Sadly this game was not good AT all to the point I thought maybe watching the movie would help the experience. Booting up the original 95 film I was excited to finally dive face first into this world and……. It was one of the worst movies I have seen. After pondering to myself I got back to the game and finally finished and still had the same feeling at the end, it is such a boring game and bland game.
Why was it so bad?
To put it simply the gunplay was VERY boring and had no impact as you shot enemies you never really felt like you were doing any damage. Furthermore, the levels give you objectives and side objectives to do each level but you literally don’t have any reason to worry about anything past the main objective so you will skip it. On the subject of skipping unless you are prompted to kill or arrest the enemies you can literally run past everything and get to the goal which made certain parts funny. For being a man of “justice” its side objectives really have no reason to be accomplished so 99% of the time you will skip them unless you accidentally complete a side goal. Hell if you don’t skip anything sometimes the enemies will just skip you as the AI was terrible in this game having allies float mid air, enemies run into walls and NPCs you are supposed to save get stuck in places. Furthermore, the level layouts were very boring until you get to the boss fights , having you do boring objectives never trying to expand on stuff for you to do. To top it off the enemy variety is boring as you only fight about 3 types of enemies not including bosses and like I said above fighting each of these bland types of enemies got very boring very fast.. Combining all these things together it really made for a boring and bland experience that will soon be very forgettable to me. It's a shame because I honestly like the vibe and idea of Judge Dredd. I just don’t think they pulled it off with this game and that makes me wish we got another game. There is potential with this IP but it seems they just don’t care to try anything with it and I am not sure on the reason why so I won’t say much more on that.
Did I enjoy anything?
Honestly yes there were certain aspects about the game I did enjoy. To explain , I actually really liked the environments and graphics. I think they still look nice to this day and it was fun to just look around each level. While being cheesy I can’t help but to love the dialogue in this game, it is 100% cheesy mcheese and I was here for it. Furthermore, while the enemy pool was extremely dull I actually liked the bosses for the most part and thought a few levels had some great ideas in them. To elaborate, there was a stage where you had to fight against a fire demon who was burning up a smoking lounge and the level had you activate sprinklers to trap it and win. I really thought it was a cool idea even though the level was very short.
In the end
It was an interesting game to dive into as I never really heard anything about it and honestly if you are a die hard Dredd fan maybe give it a shot. It's cheap and it's very short with a runtime of about 3 hours so you can knock it out in one night if you really don’t value your time. A shame but it is what is, this game is a weird one.
Small update: watched the 2012 movie and it was awesome !
Mattt
7 months ago
Also as a side note, don't let the awfulness of the Stallone Dredd movie turn you off of the Karl Urban one, they're completely different in virtually every way