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Unfortunately, it falls short when you’re trying to navigate the open-world environment due to a relatively poor map system. Destructoid with a flamethrower or a bazooka, so RCR wins out easily there. It’s kind of like playing 3D Dot Game Heroes as either the main Not-Link guy, or a dragon – either option is fine, but one ups the wackiness level. There’s a lot to do in the main game, and if you ever feel like taking a break from it, you can, and either focus on side-missions that don’t count towards the story and take part in things like street races, take part in specific challenge missions you find throughout the main game where you run amok for X amount of time or take part in the free-roaming mode with either the Player character or any of the unlocked ones. The in-game casino gives you SMB 3-styled match-two memory game and line-up/slot machine games for cash, health, shields and weapons. The Paperboy-style mini-game controls well, as do the in-game arcade versions of Super Meat Boy (as a Virtual Boy-style game with optional headache-inducing faux-3D), and bit.trip Runner. One advantage of this game taking a long time to come out and being a labor of love is that everything is executed as it should be. It is pretty strange at first to play a GTA-style game as a twin stick shooter, but it works really well – and that becomes immediately apparent when you take part in the Smash TV-esque shooter rooms.Ī lot of open world games try to deliver a lot of things, and don’t do them all that well.
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It’s also much easier to drive around the open world here than it was in TMNT (which also has one of its most infamous stages recreated here) or Dick Tracy thanks to a far more logical control scheme for both the PS3 pad and the Vita and making use of the modern twin stick design makes it super-easy to shoot wherever you want to.
RCR does a far better job at delivering a fun, silly Back to the Future game than the actual BTTF NES game did. My favorite shop name is probably Bundy’s Wedding Chapel, but Skate or Buy is up there too.īeyond the references being amusing on a surface level, they also allowed me to realize how much better a job RCR does at delivering a satisfying experience for fans of some licenses that were given absolutely terrible releases on the NES.
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RCR is even more full of references than one can imagine even if you’ve seen every trailer and have seen all the shop names in them, you’re in for some treats. You’ll also need to take on the responsibility of paperboy – only instead of newspapers, you’re throwing nudie mags into boxes.
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It begins with the Player coming into contact with Doc Choc, who’s in dire need of a Flax Combobulator (and other parts) for his redesigned silver-ish vehicle and turns into a series of fun fetch-quests for things like Game Dini codes and side-missions that involve a low-speed chance with the vigilante Biffman as he excitedly…obeys traffic laws and you need to down as much coffee as possible to stay awake. It’s a recipe for success, as ’90s kids eat up references from the period (while also having to eat a balanced breakfast and balancing checkbooks because they aren’t children anymore). The game as a whole is probably much better for the change, and has come out at a perfect time given that Double Dragon Neon also spoofs that same time period - making this the second game in about a month that references “Bimmy” and Jimmy Lee. Or doesn’t pay him for.(Seriously, he kills a LOT of people.Beginning life as Grandtheftendo, a GTA III port to the NES about a decade ago, Retro City Rampage has gone from being an 8-bit rendition of a then-modern game, to a parody of NES-era games and pop culture. He’s discovered by a crazy scientist in a car with top-hinged doors that needs to reach a certain speed to go back in time too, to travel back to find the right parts so Player can get back, presumably, to do more terrible things in his time… because in both times, he’s a murdering thief who does whatever criminal acts someone’s willing to pay him for.
I think one of the developers might've read my journal.įor those who missed it the first time, RCR is the story of Player-that’s you, err, the player-who finds a time machine piloted by two gnarly dudes (insert your favorite guitar riff here), but breaks it on re-entry into the world. Video games, movies, music-nothing is too weird or niche to get a shout-out by these pixilated sprites and storefronts, meaning this is a game so completely up my alley that I’m starting to think this was some sort of a “Truman Show” situation.
It’s a mixture of 8-bit revival and a love letter to the era to which it’s emulating: the 1980s. "Retro City Rampage DX is not just a parody game improved upon from its original outing.