Armed and Dangerous is a 3rd-person action shooter developed by Planet Moon Studios, the company that brought us Giants: Citizen Kabuto. The lands of Midden have been conquered by the evil King Forge, who has ruled over them with an iron fist for many years. A small band of Robin Hood-esque thieves, called the Lionhearts, who have an axe to grind against the King, decide to pull one last ultimate heist. They stole the famed Book of Rule, the King's prized possession, and thus humiliate him. It doesn't work out exactly as planned, though. What begins as a purely selfish plan changes as the Lionhearts get drawn into the underground rebellion against the King.

In the game, you control a master thief named Roman and your pals Jonesy, a sarcastic, mean-spirited and selfish Scottish moleman who's a miner and a demolition expert, Q1-11, a highbrow former-killer robot that helping you fight and Rexus, a once-powerful magic seer with googly glass eyes. To be exact, your buddies (Jonesy and Q1-11) are controlled by the AI and basically just follow your moves, helping you blast baddies. You can only issue two simple orders to them - "attack target area" and "guard me".

Armed and Dangerous features 21 levels set in five various environments (snowy levels, woods, mountains, sea-spattered cliffs), plenty of weapons like the Hawkings Rifle, Flemming Machine gun, Cyclops Sniper Rifle, Vindaloo Rocket Launcher, Gurner Personal Mortar and the Land Shark Gun, six different types of bombs - Sticky Bombs, Topsy Turvy Bombs, Guy Fawkes Traitor Bomb, Knockout Bomb, and World's Smallest Black Hole, and wicked enemies like half-man, half-animal Grunts, eliminator droids and wall-smashing Goliaths.

The gameplay is pretty straightforward - you and your teammates run across an open landscape employing the weaponry to achieve mission objectives. If course, here are tons of enemies and you have to kill'em all :) So you can expect lots and lots of action in the game. Some weapons are really cool. For example, you have the Land Shark Gun that releases a shark to attack your enemies - that means enemies get swallowed by a shark that swims just under the ground, or the Topsy Turvy bomb that literally turns your world upside down and send enemies in your range up and down in the world as well. In each state you can carry up to three different regular weapons. To make gameplay a bit more various, sometime you must control a single turret armed with two machine guns and a mortar. That mortar is on a rail atop a wall guarding a town or village. Your objective is to keep a set number of Grunts (usually 100) from getting over the walls and taking over the town for King Forge. There are thousands and thousands little "dots" (ehrm enemies) coming at you! These bonus missions are really very fast-paced and cool.

Overall, Armed and Dangerous is great game, however you will complete it in just a few hours, and unfortunately the replay value is not very good. There's no multiplayer too :( There's no doubt that a co-op mode would be really great addition to the gameplay. Hey developers, do you hear me?! :) Despite the game is short, simplistic and a bit repetitive, I liked it. Honestly, once started, I couldn't stop myself from playing till I finished it. How's that possible? In fact, the in-game-humor and cut-scenes is what you want to play&finish the game for. That's it. You can try out this playable demo (168MB).

Minimum system requirements: 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 32MB 3D card, 4x CDROM