Death was the perfect rental game, the kind of lazy afternoon experience that doesn’t seem all that common in the mainstream these days. Was it objectively incredible, transcendent, and everything you’d want from a video game? No, but it didn’t need to be - in many ways, Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death was an absolute whale of a time on my PS2 some seventeen years ago, especially when you could arrest anyone for the crime of existing and there was a special button just for saying Dreddisms.

Dredd vs Deathįor me, though, as a wee boy whose eyes had been opened to bloody, glorious violence thanks to Metal Gear Solid 2, Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs.

I mean, 2003 also saw the release of The Simpsons: Hit and Run, Enter The Matrix and Need for Speed: Underground, so the reviewers must have been spoilt. Death, a relatively straightforward FPS in which Dredd takes on Death (you’d never have guessed it) across Mega City One, perhaps due to the year it released. Death was the last proper release way back near the start of the century, a game I have all the time in the world for, even if critics at the time didn’t. Despite being one of the gamiest characters ever made, what with the gun that’s straight out of Mothergunship and general badassery of someone like the DOOM Slayer, Judge Dredd hasn’t graced a video game console in almost two decades.

While there’s always cries for new Jak & Daxter, Syphon Filter, and Ape Escape games to name just a few, it’s recently come to my attention that a certain powerful chin hasn’t had a video game adaptation since 2003.

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