The cops won't necessarily have to slaughter every punk that gets in their way, either. But as criminals with presumably no morals, you'll be able to grab innocent bystanders and use them as human shields, which will make the good guys hesitate before firing at you (giving you an obvious upper hand). The thugs, meanwhile, will have no reservations about using heavy weapons like AK-47s, but they won't necessarily be as accurate with them, and they'll go down faster than the police officers who may be equipped with body armor. For instance, the cops may have lesser weapons to work with, such as simple sidearms and Tasers, but their training will mean they have greater accuracy. The differences between the cops and the gang members will be more than cosmetic. Interestingly, you can also hit up on the D pad to bring the camera down into a first-person view, so you can essentially play the game as a first-person shooter if that's your style-though the third-person perspective will obviously give you a greater field of view. The game is played by default from a standard third-person perspective, and you can click the right thumbstick to zoom in a little bit, in the style of many similar shooters. Naturally, the most important part of any shooter is the shooting action itself, and thankfully it looks like 25 to Life has got it in that department. We got a look at a new build of the game recently, and it looks like it should offer plenty of solid action for fans of SOCOM and other similar games. Eidos, developer Avalanche, and Highway 1 Productions are aiming to bring a little more diversity-and a lot more grit-to the popular genre with 25 to Life, an upcoming shooter set in the mean streets that will let you play as the good guys with the badges or the gangs that make their lives difficult.

You've got your real-world military stuff, such as SOCOM and Ghost Recon, and you've got your sci-fi shooters, from Halo to Unreal Tournament. When you think about it, online shooter fans don't really have a lot of variety to choose from in terms of setting.

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