Last year's most underappreciated action game gets big combat overhaul

Wanted: Dead

Wanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy.

There's something about Hong Kong's neon-lit streets that almost demands that games be set there. It's a setting that somehow never gets tiring and even when the game in question has a few problems, like Wanted: Dead, it still makes us fall in love with it. Well, sort of. The beleaguered action game has had a rough landing, overshadowed at launch and with more than its share of issues, yet it still managed to carve out a place in many of our hearts. Now, over a year after launch, the first major patch aimed at reviving its fortunes has just landed.

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