Rampage World Tour is a updated version of the classic Rampage. Rampage World Tour starts off at Scumlabs International where three lab technicians, George, Lizzy, and Ralph have mutated in an accident involving toxic waste. George has turned into a gigantic ape, Lizzy a gigantic lizard or dinosaur, and Ralph some sort of gigantic wolf. The three destroy the lab they previously worked at and then embark on a path of destruction encompassing the entire globe.
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Some arcade games are great for playing for hours, making home console ports good ways to play. Others are fun for 10 minute bursts and you see how soulless they are if you sit down for much longer. Rampage is one of the latter games.
You take control of one of three monsters (not-King Kong, not-Godzilla and a wolf monster) and smash buildings and eat people. Being a monster is fun to start with, but the fun only lasts for a few minutes as you smash up the same few types of buildings again and again. There’s zero variety – once you’ve played the first level, you’ve pretty much experienced the whole game.
It all feels a bit clunky, too, smashing buildings feels a bit awkward as you have to jump onto them to start the process, movement just isn’t fluid and there aren’t many ways to take out a building. Everything already felt dated when it came out on the N64, and time hasn’t helped it out.
That said, Rampage World Tour is an accurate port of the arcade game, which itself is an accurate update of the original. If you really, really wanted to play Rampage at home, this provided that experience – it just didn’t do anything else.
You take control of one of three monsters (not-King Kong, not-Godzilla and a wolf monster) and smash buildings and eat people. Being a monster is fun to start with, but the fun only lasts for a few minutes as you smash up the same few types of buildings again and again. There’s zero variety – once you’ve played the first level, you’ve pretty much experienced the whole game.
It all feels a bit clunky, too, smashing buildings feels a bit awkward as you have to jump onto them to start the process, movement just isn’t fluid and there aren’t many ways to take out a building. Everything already felt dated when it came out on the N64, and time hasn’t helped it out.
That said, Rampage World Tour is an accurate port of the arcade game, which itself is an accurate update of the original. If you really, really wanted to play Rampage at home, this provided that experience – it just didn’t do anything else.
There was a split second where this felt like the biggest game in the world, and even then it felt like a fever dream. On paper, it's the most "dudes rock" game of all time, running around punching infrastructure to death. At the same time, I imagine that most of the playthroughs of this game ended with everyone deciding to do something else and walking away from the cabinet.
Video Games Used To Be So Dumb. I Love It.
Dude, when you die, your monster turns back into a tiny human and they're freakin' nekkid! Hilarious!
The people who bought this port of a console game for $60 probably thought to themselves, "Well look at me now, I can finally finish Rampage World Tour in the comfort of my own home without spending another quarter!", not realizing that with that $60 in quarters, they could have played far more Rampage than any one person needs in an entire lifetime.
Dude, when you die, your monster turns back into a tiny human and they're freakin' nekkid! Hilarious!
The people who bought this port of a console game for $60 probably thought to themselves, "Well look at me now, I can finally finish Rampage World Tour in the comfort of my own home without spending another quarter!", not realizing that with that $60 in quarters, they could have played far more Rampage than any one person needs in an entire lifetime.
World Tour is a direct successor to Midway's original "Rampage", and provides as much content as you can probably imagine from such a simple game where your main objective is to destroy buildings and eat those who inhabit them, but that's not to say that it doesn't deliver.
Gameplay wise, World Tour has much more depth than it's predecessor, allowing players to kick (a new feature) and punch omnidirectionally while travelling to different locations, as you can guess, worldwide. With 100+ unique cities and countries, you'll most likely never run out of locations to see in a single playthrough at an arcade cabinet, though whether that's a positive or a negative is up for debate.
The three playable characters, George, Ralph, and Lizzie are all fundamentally the same in terms of how you control them, and with the controls being as simple as they are, pretty much anyone can play the game and have a good time doing so.
The soundtrack and visuals have in incredibly amount of charm to them (especially when transitioning between levels/finishing a level) and they still definitely hold up today, despite being nearly thirty years old. Call it nostalgia, but I don't think there's any other game I've played that evokes the same unrecognizable feeling that playing this game gives me. I could chalk it up to the fact that it's because the game was published from a now defunct company (Midway) that I would only ever see the arcade cabinets for in shoddy rundown areas in my town, but It's really hard to say.
Overall, pretty good game. I'd play it with my dad a lot, I think Lizzie was his favorite character. Shoutout to you, dad.
Gameplay wise, World Tour has much more depth than it's predecessor, allowing players to kick (a new feature) and punch omnidirectionally while travelling to different locations, as you can guess, worldwide. With 100+ unique cities and countries, you'll most likely never run out of locations to see in a single playthrough at an arcade cabinet, though whether that's a positive or a negative is up for debate.
The three playable characters, George, Ralph, and Lizzie are all fundamentally the same in terms of how you control them, and with the controls being as simple as they are, pretty much anyone can play the game and have a good time doing so.
The soundtrack and visuals have in incredibly amount of charm to them (especially when transitioning between levels/finishing a level) and they still definitely hold up today, despite being nearly thirty years old. Call it nostalgia, but I don't think there's any other game I've played that evokes the same unrecognizable feeling that playing this game gives me. I could chalk it up to the fact that it's because the game was published from a now defunct company (Midway) that I would only ever see the arcade cabinets for in shoddy rundown areas in my town, but It's really hard to say.
Overall, pretty good game. I'd play it with my dad a lot, I think Lizzie was his favorite character. Shoutout to you, dad.
this game is so addictive i love punching windows and eating people and toilets
so my "rampage" themed set bombed at the last comedy club I played at... an audience member said it made them want to ralph
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I mean, the only thing those freakazoids are destroying... is my wallet
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the only "rampage world tour" i want to see involves millions of dead cops
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I mean, the only thing those freakazoids are destroying... is my wallet
extremely laughter
the only "rampage world tour" i want to see involves millions of dead cops