Conker: Live & Reloaded is a 2005 platform game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. It is a remake of the 2001 game Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64, with a new multiplayer mode using Xbox Live that is different from the original. Development started the moment Rare was bought by Microsoft in 2002. The game was made available as a part of Xbox One's backwards compatibility program on 17 April 2018.
Gameplay
In terms of the single-player, the gameplay is identical to Conker's Bad Fur Day. Differences are very few, including enemies and new weapons like a baseball bat with nails on it.
Multiplayer
The multiplayer in Live & Reloaded uses the same third-person perspective as the single-player game. Multiplayer consists of different game modes such as Capture the Flag or the standard Deathmatch modes. The player may participate as a member of the SHC or the Tediz. As well as a choice of a soldier, the game has a choice of "classes" which significantly affect play style. The censorship included that of some obscenities which were present in the original N64 version (in which only the word "fuck", its variations and a couple, but not all, uses of the word "shit" were bleeped out).
|4P=85%
|Edge = 8/10
|EGM = 6.67/10
|EuroG = 4/10
|Fam = 28/40
|GI = 8/10
|GameRev = B
|GSpot = 8.3/10
|GSpy = 4/5
|HG=3.25/5
|IGN = 8.1/10
|JXV = 17/20
|OXM = 8/10
|rev1 = Detroit Free Press
|rev1Score = 3/4
|rev2 = The Sydney Morning Herald
|rev2Score = 4/5
Conker: Live & Reloaded was received positively by critics for its presentation and graphics. The game was named IGNs "Best of E3 2005" in the category of "Best Graphics" for Xbox.
GameZone praised Conker: Live & Reloaded for its improvements on the original, such as controls, camera, and graphics.
Maxim gave it a perfect ten and stated that, "up to 16 people can torch each other. It's more of everything you loved (and decent people protested)." The New York Times gave it a favorable review, stating, "The game is essentially a burlesque of every game featuring cute forest creatures. It has the sort of platform-jumping, rope-climbing, monster-whomping challenges seen in many of these games, but adds foulmouthed animals, scatological humor and gallons of vividly scarlet cartoon blood." The Sydney Morning Herald gave it four stars out of five and said, "The potty humour will not be to everyone's taste but many films are hilariously lampooned."