If you have ever wanted to smoothly disarm a soldier, and then break the neck of that soldier...badda-bing
You play an action movie stereotype who is named Jack Slate who has a vendetta against the whole world, so goes on a trigger happy quest with his faithful dog...Snatch? Gruff? Crap...I cannot remember. It will come to me. Anyway, you shoot a lot of stuff. Everything from the Chinese mob, to Italian bookies to crooked cops and even prostitutes, oh yes, the prostitutes with shotguns. That costs extra!
So something happens and somebody dies and somebody stabs someone in the back and now you ballistic running around the city shooting anything and everyone.
The game seems to run pretty smooth for being an older x-box game and the videos look pretty good. I like the idea of having a gun and only using it as long as you have ammo for it, then tossing it aside when it is no longer of use. There were some cool mechanics. Also, you can depend on your dog,...I think it was named shadow...for when you run out of ammo to rip out someone's throat and happily trot back to you with the gun of its felled victim. How would you train a dog to do that?
The game can be frustrating at times and repetitive. There were times where I really spent way too long trying to get past the same point and if you don't have life, you might be hard pressed to get some. There were times where they would over kill the life and ammo for you, then there would be dry spells where you couldn't find either and be totally shafted. Also, the boxing parts could get silly and repetitive.
The best part of the game, however, is at the end of the credits when they play every single time that someone assured and/or promised that they would see you in hell. That's going to be one helluva reunion.