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Rampage World Tour
Review By: Jesse Mason
Developer:   Midway
Publisher:   Midway
# of Players:   1-3
Genre:   Action
ESRB:   Teen

There was a legend once about how a guy ran out of creative brain cells. He was a video game developer, and since video games are a creative medium and not a conformity medium of art (if you consider games art), he was in a dilemma. Luckily, the guy worked at Midway. So instead of getting a different job, he pitched Mortal Kombat Trilogy, War Gods, and the subject of this review: Rampage World Tour. And unfortunately, all of those wackos in Midway business suits greenlighted all three of them.

Why is this game not so good? For one, it's the original Rampage with fuzzy graphics. Yep, that's right, the uncreative guy took Rampage, updated its graphics slightly, added more useless things to eat, and put it in locations around the world, rather than just the U.S. It works when you just have a quarter lying around and just have some time to spare (as in the arcade game), but when $50 is at stake, people can do better with other such destructive games as Blast Corps.

The game is also repetitious to the extreme. I have nothing against those old repetitious games or their repetitious remakes but when a game is bad, no one wants to do it over and over. When you add two player or three player, you don't notice the repetition that much, but only because fighting against your friends using computer generated sprites of giant monsters is more fun than playing the actual game.

The game also faults in giving you unlimited continues. This makes the game incredibly easy because you don't have to start the level over again; you just head right back into the gameplay.

Next up is how much more exciting destruction would be had it been in 3D. Imagine kicking polygonal buildings down with trouble coming at you from all sides. There's an update that would be good.

The uncreative guy was also so pretty stupid since Rampage could've cashed in on Godzilla had it come out this month instead of March (okay, so this isn't exactly about the game itself, but it's something to note).

Overall: 4.7

 



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