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> Results: Rampage: Total Destruction
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by Andrew Bub
June 09, 2006
Giant monsters attack city! This looks like a job for...
Reviewed for PS2.
Also available for GC.
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What happens when you take a two-dimensional action classic with poor controls and neat graphics to 2006 in a remake? You get Rampage World Tour, a game that so slavishly "apes" its predecessors ... it takes the exact same swan dive off a high tower.
The arcade versions are included, so let's compare. In Rampage you have a 2D scene (a city street), three giant monsters, and you have to crumble buildings by climbing, kicking, and punching while grabbing power-ups, crushing the good guys, and eating things. The big problem? Dodgy and unresponsive controls.
The new version is in full 3D, and looks fantastic. Now there are 30 unlockable monsters, all very amusing, and the action is fundamentally the same. Meaning, the 3D is an illusion. There's only a layer or two of depth, which doesn't really expand the gameplay significantly, but does allow the designers to throw a few surprises into the mix. But the controls, they're awful. Playing with a friend (there are lots of multiplayer options) is shallow fun, and the game is long and reasonably challenging, but the game itself is, oddly, too true of an update to be recommendable. At least the classic versions are present to remind older gamers that their nostalgia for Rampage's arcade era charms was, exaggerated.
If it wasn't for the control problems, this game would come highly recommended for kids 6 and up. The violence is all cartoonish, the humor is inoffensive (for the most part, some news headline jokes cross the line a bit), and it's just plain fun to destroy things. Kids love that stuff and teaching them to enjoy it virtually, some believe, is good for kids. The multiplayer makes it good for parents too. The game is simple enough for little kids to play with gamer parents and for adults who don't play games to play with kids. If only the controls were better.
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