Planet Moon Studios (the team of Brits previously behind critics favourite but retailers foe Giants) and have teamed up to develop a new over the top third-person entitled Armed and Dangerous. In Armed and Dangerous, players assume the role of Roman, a cockney criminal leading a gang of rogues known as The Lionhearts. This Robin Hood-inspired romp will feature a vast array of ridiculous weaponry, as the player takes on all manner of enemies and quests. The game is due out on the and this Autumn. Here's a little more on the Lionhearts:

Roman's sidekicks include Jonesy, a Scottish Mole Miner and demolition expert. He's acerbic, bitter, sarcastic, and loyal only to the Lionhearts. Q1-11 is an upper class, debonair eliminator droid and the group's muscle, who attained self-awareness through his deep and abiding love of tea. Rounding out the gang is Rexus, a seer and great sage who suffered a tragic head trauma that reduced him to the stinky, unpleasant wreck of the man he is today. Still possessed of incredible powers when he chooses to use them, Rexus is an important key to the Lionhearts' success. Led by a devil-may-care attitude, the Lionhearts rely on ingenuity, their unique personalities, and each other to luck their way through one disaster after another.
This tongue in cheek game will comprise 21 missions covering a great variety of locations ranging from snowy mountains to forests and cliffs. The humorous plot makes a mockery of stories, featuring an attempt to steal the Book of Rule, Milola's most prized artifact, for it prophesizes the tyrant king's overthrow. To obtain it, they must wage battle with the evil king and his bizarre army of half-man, half-animal Grunts, psychopathic eliminator droids, wall-smashing Goliaths, evil monks and wild twiglets. I've always known Twiglets were evil anyway, but its nice to have that fact confirmed. Armed and Dangerous' weapons sound like a particular highlight, with potential hilarity in the Vindaloo Rocket Launcher and the Topsy-Turvy Bomb. The mind boggles.

By Luke Guttridge

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