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This game's problems turn a possibly fun Rambo 3rd person shooter into a pointless rail shooter. The Story is the plot of the first 3 Rambo films with a few added action moments for gameplay. The Characters are same as the movies with a mixture of voice acting coming from new voice actors or clips from the movies, and it's very noticeable when you listen to them. The graphics are not really that good, the textures of the world look rushed and especially the models look cheap and off for a 2014 game. The Gameplay is a rail shooter, so you can't just hide behind cover to improve your play, sometimes you just have to shoot everyone on screen, except for the first chapter where you can choose to kill the cops or shoot a limb or disarm them to keep them alive to follow Rambo's want to not kill anyone, minus the QTE's where if you are too early you can accidently kill them, except that Rambo's animations show him trying to kill them and even re stabs them when he didn't need them, so it can't even follow Rambo's story properly, and is a disrespect to the film First Blood, other QTE's also ruin the stealth sections where you press the button when their sight is off your path to proceed instead of doing all the work yourself, it makes stealth less tense when there's less to focus on and makes stealth more boring, and if you die enough times you have to do the mission all over again, the reason the rail shooter doesn't work for me is because this game could have worker better as a 3rd person shooter with more options to complete the level with, and it doesn't work as an arcade style game cause it's mostly not as hard as an arcade game, it's much longer than one and QTE's take away from the style, so I don't see why they bothered with one. The Rambo music is great from the movies but is repeated throughout the missions. Sounds are basic and nothing to be amazed at, and the game itself doesn't last long since due to not too many missions to do. The weapons feel like others similar to it, perks are either unnoticeable or overpowered. This game was a disaster of bad ideas, terrible ways to bring it to life and the fact that releasing it at that random time makes it a forgettable licensed game.

Reviewed on Oct 08, 2022


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