#Rampage total destruction pc game series

The three main monsters from the old games-George, Lizzie, and Ralph (a gigantic gorilla, lizard, and werewolf, respectively)-are on hand for this version, as well as a whole host of other monsters, like a Cyclops, a giant fishman, a giant squidman, a big rock thing, something that might be a jackalope, and others. But that story never extends beyond the opening cutscene and is completely secondary to you busting tall buildings as if they were chiffarobes, or something. Total Destruction toys with bringing in a bit of a plot to the proceedings, setting up the creation of the game's various monsters via a failed taste test of 'Scum Soda,' which mutates all its subjects horribly. Giant monsters roam from city to city, busting down every building that comes into their path so they can move onto the next block and do it all over again. The premise for Rampage: Total Destruction is as simplistic as any of the previous games to bear the name. Your fond memories of the original Rampage not withstanding, trying to play what is, in essence, a prettied up version of an ancient arcade game in 2006 is not much fun. As it is, Total Destruction is just a pretty new saddle for a dying horse.

Adding something, anything new to the formula might have helped stave off the cold grasp of obsolescence that Total Destruction is caught in. Now, that style of gameplay simply feels punishingly repetitive, rather than goofy and fun. You wander around the same types of two-dimensional environments (though now they're in pseudo-3D), punching the same buildings and eating the same people that you did back in the '80s. The problem is that the gameplay simply hasn't evolved over time. It's not that Total Destruction is terribly made if anything, for a $20 budget game, it's pretty well produced and effectively captures the same spirit of silly destruction that the old Rampage games did. There actually hasn't been a new version of Rampage in half a decade, and after playing Rampage: Total Destruction, the newest installment in the series, it's not tough to see why. It was the kind of simplistic, button-mashy fun that could fly in a simpler time, a game designed specifically for mindless entertainment and to keep you inserting quarters.

#Rampage total destruction pc game series

Midway's Rampage series took arcades by storm back in the late '80s, providing players with the ability to storm through various metropolitan areas of the world and destroy them with gargantuan monsters.

The only thing more depressing than a remake of a classic game that isn't very good is a remake of a classic game that simultaneously isn't good on its own merits, and also manages to bring you to the realization that the classic game on which it's based isn't as good as you remember it being.