Title Publisher |
Rampage World Tour / Midway |
Genre | Arcade Platform |
Reviewer | Eric |
Summary Gameplay |
Rampage from Midway, a one time arcade hit, is basically a game that allows you to control three once-human-but-now-mutated monsters that look like rejects from every King Kong, Creature From The Deep and Werewolf movie ever made.
Your purpose is to destroy and/or to level every thing in sight whether human, vegetable, mineral and building. You do this by jumping, kicking, stomping and punching your way through different cities. Of course, you are thwarted at every step by puny humans, who blast you with ray-guns, bazookas and other weapons of mass destruction. You will get injured, but the fun part is, you can grab a human, toss him in the air, and chug em' down for sustenance. There are also a myriad of power-ups than you can find when destroying a building, but not all are good to munch on, and some will leave you with a bad case of the burns.
The whole game is a real feast of carnage, with choppers wheezing by, car bumping
your toes, missiles flying and humans screaming in terror. You can of course interact with all the moving sprites,
but only if your idea of interaction is destruction. |
Verdict | Rampage World Tour is only good for a few seconds. After the novelty of eating humans
and destroying buildings wear off, you are left with game play that's repetitive and tedious. The controls are also sticky, and trying to latch onto a building can sometime be a lesson in futility. I also found the game overly difficult, even when set at 'normal' difficulty. I shudder to think what 'hard' would be like. I'd recommend this game only for the chronic and deranged. As a stress reliever, it excels, but in terms of game play, challenge and ingenuity, it's a big zero. By the way, anyone interested it buying it off me? |