Trigger Man | DJcube

Nobody threatens our family. Nobody.

NA release: 28th September 2004
EU release: N/A
JP release: N/A
Developer: Point of View
Publisher: Crave Entertainment
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: Widescreen Hack

Starting off with a wall of dialogue of boring crime family talk, the game at least seemed somewhat interesting, like it could be a low budget Hitman. You get told to deal with a rival crime family to prove that you didn’t kill their son, which is apparently achieved by killing most of them. At least, with your unnamed character’s “special skills” there should be things like accidental kills, aggressive negotiations and the like.

But it’s nothing of the sort. It’s just a third person shooter. And quite possibly the worst third person shooter I’ve played. The aiming has some kind of acceleration so it initially feels like aiming through syrup before moving uncontrollably fast a split second later. And then you – The Trigger Man – can carry so little ammo that you can’t kill many before you run out. And if you don’t get a headshot with the dreadful aiming, enemies take 10 or so bullets before they die.

Enemies don’t drop ammo, either. And you can’t pick up their guns. So what you need to do is find boxes of ammo at various points and repeatedly return to them whenever you run out. It gets a little bit better when you get more weapons, but is still tedious, like everything else in the game. A lot of the game is just finding keys and then figuring out which door is the one you need to enter.

Then there’s the stealth sections. These are easily the worst stealth segments I’ve ever seen. The police WILL spot you, unless you do exactly what the game wants you to do, with no clues from the game. In the casino level, there’s plenty of places that look like viable hiding spots, but none work. Instead, you have to crouch in front of some specific boxes (not behind them, in front). The enemies will stare right at you and not notice you – but only in this very specific spot. It’s horrible.

Trigger Man is just all round atrocious in every way.

Worst

Trigger Man is unrespectable. It’s shoddy, mindless, inane, boring, drab, frustrating, limited, poor, ugly, difficult, stiff, slow, unbalanced, and without a shred of worth when compared to just about anything that has ever existed (Bad Boys included).
Ivan Sulic, IGN

Remake or remaster?

No.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to get Trigger Man.