Eurogamer Retro: Armed & Dangerous

How funny was Armed & Dangerous? Yes, yes it absolutely had the Land Shark Gun, and no one can dispute its magnificence, but what about the rest of the game? I took a look at the 2003 game for Eurogamer, and then wrote words about it in the correct order. Some were:

"The reception is all down to context. You know when a golfer makes a funny mime to the crowd when someone's phone rings, and everyone falls about laughing? Context. It's not funny. It's just unexpected. Put that golfer on stage at an open mic comedy night and his hilarity would be put into cruel perspective. It's just not okay, not after 3000 years of games being around, for something just not being completely humourless to be good enough. And it's not that A&D is unfunny - not at all. It's occasionally wry, often silly. But just not "hilarious"."

And the rest are here.