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.

Reviewed on Dec 24, 2023


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