Romeo Is A Dead Man that’s easily explained as… well, it isn’t.
The basic premise sees space-time being shattered, while you’re also between life and death, but revived thanks to special technology, and being recruited by the FBI, sorting out baddies and bringing justice back to the world.
Well, something like that, since in reality, you just head from location to location killng everyone and everything, killing aplenty – although while in certain places you don’t HAVE to kill all of them, and CAN just run past them, although that reduces the challenge.
On the plus side, I like that when you return for another go at the game, it acts like a superhero movie, as it gives you a “Previously on ‘Romeo Is A Dead Man'” vignette. Oh, and it looks amazing when it works properly, but…
In my second gameplay video, it went absolutely glitchy as fuck during battle scenes – on what is a beast of a PC, and given that this Romeo Is A Dead Man just feels like the same old hack-hack-slash endless gameplay, but with some fancy stuff sprinkled all over, I’m done.
Watch the later battles in the second video and see what I mean
Thanks to our friends at Grasshopper Manufacture Inc for the review code for this game.
Overall: Don’t consider buying until all the glitches are fixed.
Romeo Is A Dead Man is out now on PC/Steam for just a tenner, although there’s a 10% discount at the time of posting, so it’s worth a punt.
Important info:
- Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Inc
- Publisher: Grasshopper Manufacture Inc
- Players: Single-player
PC specs:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
- Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
- Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
- 1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
- 2nd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 3rd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 4th Storage Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS 3.5″ SATA HDD/Hard Drive
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