Key quests riff on many 8-bit titles, such as a stealthy romp through a militarised base alongside blatant Solid Snake homage Major Lee. It's essentially classic Grand Theft Auto, with a story focused on Player's attempts to piece together a time machine - assisted by 'Doc Choc', a parody of Back to the Future's Doc Brown -and return home. In the game you play as a gun-for-hire thug called 'Player' who finds himself whisked off to the future version of Theftopolis, a pixelated city hub populated with '90s references and pedestrians just begging to be squashed under the wheels of your vehicle. I've taken a ton of screenshots of references in the game and whacked them at the bottom of this blog if you'd like to check them out.
I might be late to the race, but if you haven't picked the game up yet, you might want to read on a little.Īre Retro City Rampage's constant, by-the-second 8-bit jokes an attempt to spare developer Brian Provinciano the whip? That was my initial concern, but as it happens no, it's a great game in its own right, and like Bayonetta every superb reference - from the brazenly apparent to the subtlety intelligent - is added window dressing around a fun, functional game. I checked out Retro City Rampage recently and these same feelings came back as my Vita's screen was bombarded with sly references to classic games of yore. If the game had problems, I would have flagged them up regardless.
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I absolutely agree.įor one, I didn't care that Bayonetta featured a stage inspired by Space Harrier - I mean, I appreciated the reference as a child weaned on Sega's creamy blue milk - but I felt that the core game was already so brilliant that the reference was an added bonus, not a get out of jail free card for Platinum Games. Some would argue that this taints what is supposed to be an objective appraisal.
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Making an average game and then peppering it with references to something considered cult or kitsch will often see it spared the full weight of a game critic's hatchet.
But is it all just in-jokes and references to a bygone age? Dave Cook discusses the game beneath the parody.Īs I discussed in a previous blog, nostalgia is like a free pass. Retro City Rampage is a title founded on nostalgia.
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