25 to Life
Category: PlayStation 2 Game
Console: PlayStation 2 (Download Emulator)
Developer: Avalanche Software / Ritual Entertainment
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
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Genre: TPS
Mode: Single-player / Multiplayer
Region: NA
Views: 558,326
Downloads: 139,593
Released: 18 January 2006
File Size: 1.3 GB
Rating: 3/5 (78 votes)
25 to Life is a third-person shooter video game developed by Avalanche Software and Ritual Entertainment and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox and released in 2006.
The game is about a man named Freeze, his friend Shaun Calderon, and police officer Lester Williams in the fictional city of Las Ruinas. Freeze commits crimes with Shaun to get money, which he spends for his family, while Williams is trying to stop the organized crime and across the city.
Set in a modern environment, the game allows the player to play as both a cop and a gangster, at different times, in a "cops and robbers" style game.
25 to Life received "unfavorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Hyper's Maurice Branscombe commented that the game's soundtrack was okay only "if you like rap." However, he criticised the game as "absolutely unadulterated bullshit".
USA Today gave the game a score of four stars out of ten and stated that its only strong quality "is a decent multiplayer mode. Most of the action is team-based, allowing you to choose between police or thugs. Players can choose to rob a location and return the stash to their home turf, raid a criminal hangout, or engage in an all-out deathmatch.
Detroit Free Press gave the PS2 version one star out of four and stated that it "lacks everything that would make it new, innovative or just plain fun. The graphics are really muddy and sub-par. The controls seem to be a bit confusing".
