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You can do the traditional run and gun style, using the right analog stick to shoot your weapon in any direction. Retro City Rampage has nostalgia in strides which keep the laughs and memories coming. The different color schemes perfectly represents different systems and computers, each flawlessly depicted. You can make your pause screen look like different television sets and arcade cabinets from throughout the decades, and even change the colors to match. In addition to the references, there are a variety of overlays you can use to keep the nostalgia coming. There is even a mission where you play a Ghostbusters themed version of the arcade classic Tapper. I love the video game references naturally, like the very Mario-esque pipes that take you across the city or to hidden destinations. The references are packed in there, and I surely missed a few across my destructive journey across the city. The list goes on and on, with notable references aimed at Back to the Future, Bill and Ted, Ninja Turtles, Metal Gear, Mario, 80’s rappers, and many more. Lots of these naturally poke fun on their inspirations, like a store called “Flesh Prints” or another called “iPomme”. From billboards to stores, everything is a play on words. There is almost literally a pop culture reference around every corner. While running, gunning, and driving in both side missions and main, you will be bound to run into a few familiar faces.īatman, Hasselhoff, and Doc from Back to the Future all pop up along your travels and they are not alone. The game cracks me up, and the story being all over the place with both its missions and narrative furthers that humor. I did not mind these attributes one bit, as it fit the scope perfectly. It is nonsensical, with juvenile jokes and mindless destruction to please your appetite. You will immediately get a feel for the carefree attitude the game has from its earliest moments. This is all fittingly decked out in retro inspired graphics with fitting sounds to compliment it. It is top down, with a focus on driving as well as on-foot traversal and gunplay. Like I mentioned, the game has clear inspirations from the earlier GTA titles. You are a jack of all trades who can, well, high jack cars, participate in crimes, fight crime (you are one hell of a hypocrite you know), and all sorts of stuff in between. You are the PLAYER, and you have one goal: RAMPAGE! Well, not really. Packed to the brim with humor, pop-culture references, and action galore, Retro City Rampage has clearly earned its more than ten spots on gaming platform’s markets. This game has been released on platform after platform, and I was lucky enough to cover its latest release on the Nintendo Switch. That is none other than Retro City Rampage, the top-down but over-the-top open world action game from VBLANK. While that is an inspiration of the modern third-person perspective, another title has been quite successful at taking a spin at the top down perspective found in the original Grand Theft Auto 1&2. Some like Saints Row have brooded quite well into their own, taking simple inspirations and growing a fan base from them.

#RETRO CITY RAMPAGE DX TWITTER SERIES#

The Grand Theft Auto series is a classic by many counts, so naturally over the years it has inspired many new titles and series.

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