I have to admit that I haven't played Rampage in the arcade all that much, but it does appear that this is a fairly faithful conversion, reproducing the graphics and the gameplay extremely well. Some stages have large areas of water which swallow you and can make it difficult to get onto buildings, and in addition to the bonuses you can uncover within buildings, you'll also find a number of rather less tasty objects that have detrimental effects if you grab for them. Neon signs for example, will electrocute you if you punch them when they're on. Hidden DangersĪpart from the direct opposition, your creatures are going to encounter other hazards. As you progress from town to town and country to country, your opponents increase in number and strength, and you'll run into all manner of armed enemies, from jet fighters to little ED-209 style battle robots. To begin with, the opposition to your destructive rampage is fairly sparse - just a few people with guns and maybe the odd helicopter. Some buildings will also have bouncy roofs, which you can jump upon to squash the building in record time.Įach structure can take a certain amount of damage before it collapses, at which time you need to jump off, or get brought down with it, losing energy in the process. Kicking the building will devastate the place faster, but you pick up fewer bonuses this way.įor the fastest rate of destruction, you need to climb onto the roof of the building and pound it repeatedly with your fist, sending shockwaves down through the entire structure. Punching is slower than kicking, but can reveal bonus items or people, who can then be grabbed and eaten. Once hanging on the building, you can kick or punch it to slowly destroy it. To begin your reign of terror, you need to climb onto a building and this is accomplished by moving to the side of it and pressing up. You start the game standing in the street in front of some buildings, with a few people screaming and maybe the odd car or policeman.
The characters in Rampage have three basic moves: a kick, a punch and a jump. Then your characters appear, grin at you, descend to street level, and it's time for the devastation to begin! You're introduced to the game by a panicky news reporter with a story of huge beasts rampaging through a city. Which is basically where the game starts. You're a little bit miffed about this, as you would be - imagine how difficult it must be to find shoes when your feet are the size of cars - and so you and your gargantuan pals set out to sort out Scum Labs by trashing their complexes around the world, causing as much chaos and damage as you can along the way. You and two friends have been affected by chemicals from a massive chemical company called Scum Labs and mutated into huge monstrous creatures - a giant gorilla, a huge werewolf and a massive lizard. Basically the storyline behind the game runs as follows. Rampage World Tour is the N64 take on the original coin-op. Now, after what must seem like an interminable wait, Rampage is back, revamped, reworked and ready to rock! Devastatingly Good? There was just something so satisfying about finally toppling the buildings and eating that last annoying sniper. Even on these machines, with their limited capabilities and primitive graphics, this destructive demolition game met with great success. Rampage soon made the transition to the home computer market, with versions being released on both the Sinclair Spectrum and the Commodore 64, amongst others. It must I have been a bit of a gamble at the time, when shoot-'em-ups were the most popular games, but someone had obviously noted kids' propensity for violent destruction and, sure enough, everyone took to the game like King Kong to the Empire State Building. The gameplay involved controlling a massive mutant creature and rampaging through various cities, destroying the buildings, trampling the armed forces I and eating little old ladies.
When Rampage first appeared in the arcades way back in the mists of time, it was an unusual idea.
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