GameSpot has posted a hands-on preview and five new movie files from Namco's upcoming Xbox action game, Dead to Rights.

The game's first two chapters--the tutorial level set in the construction yard and the level set in the Den of Iniquity, which features the exotic-dancer minigame--have been tightened up. The tweaking has resulted in some graphical fixes, and the pacing of some of the gameplay has been adjusted. The two most notable changes are the overall difficulty and the speed with which you can use Shadow. The game's difficulty has now been upped, which makes the game much more challenging and ensures that you won't be racing through levels with guns ablaze. While you could get away with it for fairly lengthy stretches in the E3 demo, those days are over. Instead you'll have to rely heavily on using enemies as human shields and on using your environment for cover. Using your trusty companion, Shadow, to disarm enemies and fetch their weapons can now be done much more quickly, thanks to cuts in animation, which helps improve the pacing of the game. You'll notice that you'll unlock more types of disarming moves if you use the technique extensively.