Trivia / Dead to Rights

• Dummied Out: The PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions have a truncated version of Chapter 3 (the prison level) compared to the earlier Xbox version, due to complaints from Xbox reviewers that the chapter was too long and too difficult.
• Follow the Leader: The first game clearly followed the footsteps of Max Payne, what with its Film Noir tone, Private Eye Monologue, run-down urban setting and Bullet Time gunplay. Retrubution, on the other hand, ditched most of these trappings for Gears of War-style cover shooting antics.
• Mid-Development Console Shift: The first game started development as a PlayStation 2-exclusive game. Namco, under contact with Microsoft, decided to port the game to the Xbox and make the port timed-exclusive. Namco also ported the game to the GameCube and was released months after the timed-exclusive Xbox version, alongside the initially-developed PlayStation 2 version.
• What Could Have Been: A video game prequel to Escape from New York was in development, as seen in this collection of trailers (using the first game's assets). Namco lost the rights to the film series during development, and was permanently cancelled.